THE  HISTORY  OF   LYNDEBOROUGH 
NEW   HAMPSHIRE 


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CHAPTER  XXVII. 

THE  "  OLDEN  TIME"  IN  I/YNDEBOROUGH. 
BY  J.  A.  WOODWARD. 

If  any  of  the  farmers  of  the  L,yndeborough  of  today  were 
required  to  go  into  the  largest  wood-lot  in  town,  say  in  March 
or  April,  and  cut  down  trees,  build  themselves  log-houses  to 
shelter  their  families,  make  clearings  and  raise  crops  sufficient 
for  maintenance  during  the  succeeding  twenty-four  months, 
they  would  undoubtedly  think  themselves  obliged  to  deal  with 
a  pretty  hard  proposition.  But  that  is  what  the  first  settlers  of 
L,yndeborough  undertook  to  do  in  A.  D.  1735-1740.  Besides, 
the  heaviest  growth  of  wood  or  timber  within  the  limits  of  thp 
town  now,  is  not  to  be  compared  with  the  immense  trees  that 
constitute  the  celebrated  "original  growth." 

The  building  of  some  sort  of  house  on  the  lands  they  had 
bought  was  the  first  task  of  the  pioneer,  and  it  must  of  a  neces- 
sity be  a  log-house.  Sometimes  these  were  built  by  the  un- 
aided efforts  of  the  settler  and  his  family,  but  frequently  some- 
one who  planned  to  settle  in  the  neighborhood  would  ' '  change 
work,"  and  in  that  way  make  the  labor  of  lifting  the  logs  into 
place  easier.  These  log-houses  were  often  built  with  one  end 
against  a  large  boulder,  this  to  serve  as  a  backing  for  the  fire- 
place. Jeremiah  Carleton's  was  built  that  way  and  so  was 
Adam  Johnson's.  The  fire-place  was  usually  a  mammoth 
affair,  and  it  needed  to  be  to  warm  the  loosely-constructed 
house.  It  was  made  of  stone  laid  in  clay,  with  a  low,  wide 
chimney.  Bricks  were  not  to  be  had  at  first,  and  they  were  not 
used  to  any  great  extent  until  framed  houses  were  substituted 
for  the  rude  hut. 

One  could  sit  in  the  corner  of  these  old  fire-places  and,  look- 
ing up,  see  the  stars  at  night.  Even  after  bricks  came  into 
general  use  people  still  built  their  fire-places  on  a  generous 
scale,  and  the  chimneys  likewise.  Probably  the  last  of  those 
old  chimneys  to  be  torn  down  was  the  one  in  the  Jonas  Kidder 
house;  Jesse  Simonds  had  it  taken  down.  It  was  12  feet  square 
at  the  base  and  continued  at  that  size  up  through  the  second 
story,  in  the  hall  of  which  was  a  fire-place  large  enough  to 


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burn  "four-foot  "  wood.  Into  these  fire-places  was  hauled  an 
immense  back-log,  and  some  of  the  houses  were  so  arranged  as 
to  allow  a  horse  to  haul  it  right  into  the  room,  then  a  somewhat 
smaller  fore-stick  was  placed,  and  then  smaller  wood  placed  on 
top,  and  the  result  was  a  roaring  fire,  that  warmed  every  thing 
near  it,  and  left  the  back  of  the  room  cold  and  draughty.  Hav- 
ing his  house  built  and  covered  with  split  pine  shingles,  and 
the  hearth-stone  warm,  the  next  work  of  the  settler  was  to 
make  a  clearing,  and  get  some  land  ready  for  crops. 

Ususually  the  trees  were  felled  one  by  one,  but  sometimes 
the  choppers  would  commence  on  one  side  of  a  lot  and  chop 
the  trees  nearly  off,  and  then  one  or  two  large  trees  would  be 
felled  against  those,  and  down  would  go  the  whole  lot.  I  have 
heard  my  grandfather  tell  the  story  of  one  such  fall  on  land 
north  of  the  mountain.  It  was  not  a  common  practice,  how- 
ever, and  was  only  tried  when  there  was  a  "chopping  bee." 
There  was  great  danger  to  the  choppers.  A  sudden  gust  of 
wind,  or  some  workman  chopping  too  far  into  the  tree,  was 
liable  to  set  the  "fall"  going,  to  the  great  danger  of  those 
engaged  in  the  toil.  But  it  was  said  that  the  trees  were  packed 
more  closely  together  by  this  method,  and  a  much  better 
"burn"  could  be  obtained.  These  fallen  trees  were  allowed 
to  remain  until  partially  dry,  and  then  came  the  burn. 
Such  a  mass  of  trunks  of  trees,  limbs  and  dried  foliage  and 
twigs  made  a  most  tremendous  fire,  and  at  this  day  one  wonders 
what  was  done  to  prevent  it  from  spreading  into  the  adjoining 
woods.  Perhaps  it  did  and  the  settlers  did  not  care. 

Of  course  even  after  the  best  ' '  burn ' '  the  trunks  of  the 
immense  trees  and  the  larger  limbs  remained  unconsumed,  and 
then  came  the  log-piling.  As  soon  as  enough  settlers  had  come 
into  the  town,  this  part  of  the  work  was  generally  made  the 
occasion  of  a  "  bee."  The  men  and  boys  came  with  their  oxen 
and  axes,  and  logs  were  chopped  into  convenient  lengths  and 
hauled  together  and  piled.  It  was  hard,  sooty  work,  and  would 
not  appeal  to  a  present-day  farmer  as  very  desirable  toil  ;  but 
those  men  are  said  to  have  had  great  fun  and  excitement  in  the 
logging  "  bee,"  and  they  had  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that 
they  were  lending  a  helping  hand  to  a  neighbor.  Possibly,  too, 
the  New  England  rum,  which  was  always  plentifully  supplied 
on  such  occasions,  had  something  to  do  with  the  merry  excite- 
ment. These  log  piles  were  fired,  and  when  consumed,  left  an 
immense  residue  of  ashes  to  fertilize  the  soil. 


THE  "OLDEN  TIME"  465 

The  first  crops  raised  were  Indian  corn  and  rye,  and  usually 
a  small  plot  of  flax.  The  seed  must  be  all  planted  or  sowed  by 
hand,  and  the  tools  our  forefathers  had  to  use  were  of  the  most 
primitive  kind,  heavy  and  cumbrous.  A  plow  was  of  no  use 
whatever  on  account  of  the  roots  in  the  soil.  The  rye  was 
scratched  in  with  a  three-pronged  implement,  and  the  iron  in 
the  hoes  would  have  made  a  half-dozen  of  those  of  the  present 
day.  With  these  tools  the  corn  was  covered  among  the  roots 
and  stones,  and  it  would  be  interesting  to  know  how  much  they 
raised  to  the  acre  in  that  virgin  soil.  It  was  not  until  many 
years  later  that  potatoes  were  raised  to  any  great  extent.  This 
vegetable  was  slow  in  coming  into  general  use  as  an  article  of 
food.  Mrs.  Chase  Hadley  told  the  writer  that  her  husband 
raised  two  bushels  one  year  and  divided  them  with  the  neigh- 
bors, keeping  only  one-half  bushel  for  his  own  family  ;  and  that 
no  one  wanted  them  or  ate  them  in  those  days.  That  must 
have  been  about  the  year  1800. 

Hoes,  axes,  scythes,  etc.,  were  all  made  by  the  nearest  black- 
smiths. The  shovels  were  made  from  a  riven  oak  plank,  blade 
and  handle  all  one  piece,  the  blade  concave  on  one  side  and  con- 
vex on  the  other,  and  sometimes  shod  with  a  piece  of  steel. 
Probably  there  are  none  of  these  old  relics  in  town  now,  but 
one  of  these  shovels  was  kept  in  Sherebiah  Manning's  hop- 
house  for  years,  and  was  much  worn. 

Sometime  later  a  very  narrow  harrow  with  teeth  top  and  bot- 
tom was  used  to  harrow  in  rye  on  burnt  ground.  If  the  roots 
threw  it  bottom  side  up,  the  team  might  still  go  on  and  the  har- 
row would  do  business. 

When  the  roots  had  decayed  to  some  extent,  and  some  of  the 
larger  stone  had  been  cleaned  away,  plows  came  into  use. 
These  plows  were  manufactured  in  the  town  and  were  the  joint 
product  of  the  blacksmith  and  the  carpenter.  The  beam  was 
six  or  seven  feet  long,  made  of  oak  or  ash,  perhaps  five  inches 
in  greatest  diameter,  tapering  toward  the  team  and  handles. 
The  "plow  irons,"  made  by  a  blacksmith,  were  the  share,  the 
point  and  the  wing  ;  the  mold-board  was  made  of  wood,  and  on 
this  were  fastened  pieces  of  steel  or  sheet-iron  to  prevent  the 
furrow  from  wearing  it  away.  About  forty  years  ago  one  of 
these  old  plows  was  in  existence  and  was  used  in  repairing  the 
highway  in  District  No.  i.  It  had  pieces  of  old  saw  plate  fast- 
ened to  the  mold-board.  The  handles  were  very  low,  but  it 
was  said  to  do  better  work  than  the  more  modern  plows  ;  and 


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it  may  be  added  it  took  more  team  to  draw  it.  In  the  process 
of  time  the  land  was  cleared  of  stone,  and  the  miles  of  wall 
were  built,  wheat  and  oats  and  potatoes  were  raised,  hop  fields 
were  planted  (this  last  industry  to  be  abandoned  when  the 
Western  States  began  to  raise  hops) ,  and  the  fields  of  L,ynde- 
borough  practically  as  they  are  to-day,  were  evolved.  The  sin- 
gle and  double  walls  in  town  show  what  was  taken  from  the 
soil  besides  crops,  and  the  muscular  energy  the  fathers  ex- 
pended in  wresting  smooth  fields  from  the  forest. 

How  long  the  log-cabin  period  in  the  history  of  Lynde- 
borough  continued  there  are  no  traditions  to  tell.  They  were 
rough,  uncomfortable  habitations  at  the  best,  and  generally  con- 
tained one  room  and  a  small  loft,  this  last  reached  by  a  ladder. 
A  hole  dug  under  the  hut  and  reached  by  a  trap-door  in  the 
floor,  served  as  a  cellar.  During  the  severe  winters  common  to 
the  climate  the  occupants  must  have  suffered  much  from  the 
cold,  in  spite  of  all  contrivances,  such  as  hanging  bed-quilts 
around  the  fire-place,  and  the  use  of  the  "  settle,"  with  its'high 
back.  These  low  houses  must  have  been  nearly  buried  in  the 
deep  snow,  but  doubtless  this  was  a  blessing,  as  it  made  the 
interiors  all  the  warmer.  Green  wood  was  burned,  and  this 
had  to  be  dug  out  of  the  snow.  None  was  ever  housed  in  those 
days,  and,  in  fact,  a  generation  or  two  passed  before  woodsheds 
became  common.  When  the  boys  got  chilly  they  were  sent  to 
the  woodpile  to  ply  the  axe  until  they  were  thoroughly  warmed. 

It  is  probable  that  as  soon  as  saw-mills  were  established  and 
boards  could  be  obtained,  the  settlers  began  to  build  framed 
houses.  These  at  first  were  invariably  of  one  story.  The 
frame  was  made  of  hewn  timber,  much  of  it  seven  and  eight 
inches  square,  almost  strong  enough  to  have  supported  a  modern 
"  sky-scraper." 

Carpenters  always  worked  by  "scribe"  rule  in  those  days 
in  framing  a  building,  either  house  or  barn.  Square  rule  did 
not  come  into  use  for  almost  a  hundred  years  later. 

These  new  houses  were  loosely-constructed  affairs,  and  it 
was  necessary  to  retain  the  generous  fire-place,  to  which  was 
added  the  brick  oven.  Then,  as  the  people  grew  prosperous 
and  forehanded,  they  began  to  build  the  more  pretentious  two- 
storied  houses. 

Nails  were  very  scarce  and  hard  to  obtain,  and  some  of  the 
houses  had  the  boarding  fastened  to  the  frame  with  wooden 
pins.  The  older  part  of  the  house  on  the  old  "  town  farm  "  has 


THE  "OLDEN  TIME"  467 

the  boards  fastened  in  this  way.  The  pins  are  of  oak,  about 
three  inches  long  and  perhaps  three-eighths  of  an  inch  square 
at  the  head,  tapering  to  a  point.  This  part  of  the  house  was 
built  by  Eleazer  Woodward  just  previous  to  the  Revolutionary 
War.  Nehemiah  Boutwell  made  nails  for  years,  and  many  of 
the  houses  in  town  were  built  with  them. 

David  Stratton  built  the  seventh  framed  house  in  I^ynde- 
borough.  Such  is  the  tradition,  but  tradition  is  silent  about  the 
preceding  six.  The  site  of  Stratton's  house  was  about  twenty 
rods  south  of  where  Fred  Holt  lives. 

Much  has  been  written  about  ambitious  youth  studying  by 
the  light  of  the  open  fire  or  by  the  aid  of  pitch  pine  splints, 
doubtless  all  true  ;  but  it  is  also  doubtless  true  that  those  first 
settlers  went  to  bed  as  a  rule  almost  as  soon  as  it  was  ' '  dark 
under  the  table."  They  had  few  books,  no  newspapers,  and 
the  out-of-door  life,  with  its  vigorous  muscular  labor  in  clear- 
ing the  land,  would  be  likely  to  promote  a  drowsy  feeling,  come 
night.  But  if  they  were  inclined  to  sit  up  late,  the  light  of  the 
open  fire  or  of  a  pitch  pine  torch  was  all  they  had  at  first. 
There  were  rude  lamps  in  existence  at  that  day,  but  they  had 
no  means  to  provide  the  oil  to  burn  in  them.  But  as  they 
began  to  have  herds  of  cattle  and  flocks  of  sheep,  candles  came 
into  use,  and  the  making  of  the  year's  supply  of  "  tallow  dips  " 
was  quite  an  event  in  the  household  economy. 

Peeled  willow  sticks  about  eighteen  inches  long,  and  a  little 
less  than  a  half-inch  in  diameter  were  provided,  and  on  these 
were  looped  six  strands  of  candle  wicking  of  the  length  of  the 
required  "dip."  These  were  placed  about  a  couple  of  inches 
apart  on  the  stick.  Two  small  poles  were  then  placed  on  some 
support,  generally  two  chairs.  These  poles  were  long  enough 
to  hold  some  dozens  of  candles  and  were  laid  far  enough  apart 
to  allow  the  candles  to  hang  between.  A  large  kettle  of  tallow 
was  then  melted,  and  when  all  was  ready,  these  wicks  were 
dipped  in  the  hot  tallow.  In  withdrawing  them  of  course  they 
stuck  together  more  or  less,  and  then  a  finger  was  used  to 
separate  them,  and  the  stick  was  placed  on  the  poles  to  cool. 
By  the  time  the  last  stickful  was  dipped,  the  tallow  on  the  first 
had  hardened  sufficiently  to  allow  of  its  being  dipped  again, 
and  so  the  process  was  continued,  the  candles  growing  in  size, 
until  they  were  large  enough.  Usually  enough  were  made  at  a 
time  to  last  a  year. 

L,ater,  candle-molds  came  into  common  use.     These  were  tin 


468  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

molds  of  the  size  and  shape  of  a  candle,  fastened  together  in 
groups  of  a  dozen.  The  wicking  was  drawn  through  them  and 
secured  by  a  knot  at  the  bottom.  Melted  tallow  was  poured 
into  them  and  allowed  to  cool.  These  candles,  it  was  claimed, 
were  not  as  good  as  "  dips,"  being  more  inclined  to  run. 
Although  there  were  "  snuffers  "  in  every  household,  it  was  a 
common  practice  to  snuff  the  candle  with  the  fingers,  and  it  was 
quite  a  trick  to  do  it  without  burning  the  fingers  or  putting 
the  candle  out.  By  holding  the  candle  between  the  eyes  and 
the  book  or  paper,  (and  incidentally  catching  the  falling  grease 
in  one's  lap)  one  could  read  quite  comfortably  by  its  use. 

Whale  oil  lamps  were  used  to  some  extent  in  the  early  days, 
but  they  were  smoky  things  and  only  those  who  were  considered 
opulent  could  afford  them.  Camphene,  a  highly  explosive  oil 
or  liquid,  was  also  used  for  illuminating  purposes  but  was  rather 
dangerous. 

In  the  decade  between  1850  and  1860  kerosene  oil  became 
the  common  light,  and  has  continued  with  many  improvements 
in  lamps  to  the  present  day. 

The  writer's  father  bought  the  first  of  this  oil  in  1858,  paying 
twenty-five  cents  per  quart  therefor. 

The  clothing  of  the  pioneers  of  Lyndeborough  was  all  home- 
made, home-spun  and  woven  in  a  rough  loom  set  up  in  the 
kitchen,  usually.  Wool  was  not  very  plenty  at  first,  and  about 
the  first  crop  raised  was  a  patch  of  flax.  This  was  pulled  at 
the  proper  time  and  laid  out  to  rot,  as  it  was  termed,  then  it 
was  cleaned  of  its  seed,  and  broken  with  what  was  called  a 
' '  flax  breaker, ' '  a  machine  which  required  considerable  muscle 
to  operate.  Next  it  was  swingled  to  clean  out  the  coarser 
parts,  combed  to  get  rid  of  the  tow  and  then  was  ready  to  be 
spun  on  the  "little  wheel."  Sheets,  pillow-cases,  towels,  and 
women's  dresses,  together  with  'shirts  for  the  men,  were  made 
from  it.  The  boys  had  to  wear  a  product  made  from  the  tow, 
coarse  and  rough. 

Some  of  this  linen  was  figured,  and  compares  very  favorably 
with  the  linen  of  to-day.  Mrs.  E.  C.  Curtis  has  some  of  the 
table  linen  made  by  her  grandmother  from  flax  raised  on  the 
old  homestead  in  Johnson's  Corner.  It  was  spun  and  woven 
in  the  old  house  on  that  farm,  a  house  in  which  was  no  plaster- 
ing and  no  paint.  That  such  fabrics  could  have  been  made 
with  the  rude  looms  of  the  times,  almost  passes  belief.  They 
are  as  fine  in  texture  and  figure  as  those  of  the  present  day. 


THE  "OLDEN  TIME"  469 

Some  of  the  designs  were  called  the  "American  Beauty," 
"Orange  Quarter,"  etc.  Mrs.  Curtis  also  has  some  towels 
made  by  her  great- great-grandmother,  more  than  a  hundred 
and  fifty  years  ago,  which  show  artistic  design  in  figure. 

All  the  girls  were  brought  up  to  card  and  spin  and  weave  and 
knit.  Forty-two  knots  of  filling,  or  six  skeins,  or  thirty-five 
knots  of  warp,  or  five  skeins,  was  a  day's  work  of  either  kind, 
and  fifty  cents  per  week  and  board  was  the  pay  when  working 
out. 

Mrs.  Asher  Curtis,  senior,  used  to  milk  two  cows  for  an  addi- 
tional compensation  of  eight  cents. 

As  the  sheep  increased  in  numbers,  the  carding,  spinning, 
and  weaving  of  woolen  fabrics  was  added  to  the  home  indus- 
tries of  the  forefathers.  The  hum  of  the  "  big  wheel  "  mingled 
with  that  of  the  "  little  "  or  flax  wheel,  and  then  came  the  era 
of  the  "  striped  frock,"  a  garment  made  of  wool,  belted  at  the 
waist,  and  worn  almost  universally  by  the  men  of  two  or  three 
generations.  It  was  warm  and  comfortable  and  was  almost  the 
only  outside  garment  many  had.  It  was  worn  "to  mill  and  to 
meeting  "  and  retained  its  popularity  until  comparatively  recent 
years.  John  Richardson  was  about  the  last  man  in  the  "  mid- 
dle of  the  town"  to  give  it  up.  The  well-to-do  and  the  poor 
alike  wore  them. 

Sometimes  cotton  filling  was  obtained  from  the  lower  towns, 
and  bedspreads  and  other  articles  were  made  of  cotton  and 
wool,  or  with  a  flax  warp  made  into  a  coarser  fabric  for  common 
wear. 

Girls  made  their  own  wedding  outfits  in  those  days,  carding 
and  spinning  and  weaving  the  wool  for  blankets,  and  using 
their  utmost  skill  in  the  fineness  and  the  design  of  linen  fabrics. 
Generally  the  quantity  of  table  linen,  towels,  blankets,  bed- 
spreads, etc.,  was  enough  to  last  the  bride  through  her  married 
life,  for  the  goods  she  made  wore  like  iron.  The  maidens  were 
very  proud  of  their  skill,  and  were  not  bashful  in  showing  the 
results  of  their  handiwork.  Frequently  the  all-wool  cloth  in- 
tended for  best  wear  was  fulled  at  some  nearby  mill  and  a  nap 
made  on  it.  Joshua  Sargent  operated  just  such  a  mill  in  town 
for  many  years.  When  the  fabrics  were  dyed  the  fashionable 
color  was  blue,  and  the  aroma  of  the  old  dye  pot  with  its  bag  of 
indigo  was  in  every  kitchen  at  times. 

Of  underclothing  the  men  had  none,  nor  indeed  wanted  any. 

Mrs.  Asher  Curtis,  mother  of  Mrs.  Betsey  Ann  Curtis,  solici- 


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tous  for  her  husband's  comfort  once  made  him  a  pair  of  good, 
warm,  woolen  drawers,  and  one  cold  morning  persuaded  him  to 
wear  them.  Such  an  experience  was  new  to  him,  but  he 
started  for  the  wood-lot  with  them  on.  He  had  loaded  his  wood 
and  started  for  market,  walking  beside  his  oxen,  and  he  found 
the  drawers  uncomfortably  warm,  so  he  mounted  the  load,  and 
in  a  biting  wind  with  the  thermometer  below  zero,  discarded 
the  underwear  and  never  could  be  persuaded  to  wear  any  again. 
There  has  been  much  speculation  in  these  later  days,  as  to 
how  our  present  winters  compare  in  severity  with  those  of  the 
"olden  time."  In  connection  therewith  the  following  record 
kept  by  some  member  of  the  Goodrich  family  and  found  by 
John  H.  Goodrich  among  the  family  papers  will  be  of  great 
interest.  It  gives  the  number  of  snow-falls,  total  depth  of  snow- 
fall, number  of  rains,  and  time  of  apple-blossoming  for  twenty- 
three  years,  commencing  with  1830. 

No.  of      Total  depth  No.  of 


Years    snow  falls 


1830 
1831 
1832 
1833 


1835 
1836 

1837 
1838 

1839 
1840 
1841 
1842 

1843 
1844 

1845 
1846 
1847 
1848 
1849 
1850 
1851 
1852 
1853 


49 
55 
54 
51 
53 
68 

58 
71 
60 

67 
58 
5i 
72 
66 
53 
75 
75 
67 

53 
69 
70 

49 
78 

72 


of  snow 
6-4 

6-3 
10 

6-10 

10-9 

7 

9 

8-9 
4-5 
5-9 


12-7 
7-6 

13-6 
8-7 

10 

6-6 

7-6 

7-6 

7 

ii 

6-10 

13-6 
6-1  y2 


rains 
66 
82 
81 

94 

103 

98 

79 
90 
98 

ii3 
83 

in 

123 

94 
109 
124 
103 
117 
1 20 

91 

98 

US 
83 


Time  of 

apple  blossoming 

May  I 

May  22  Frost  to  kill  apple 

*      May  14 

buds  and  corn 

May  28 

May  6 

May  19 

May  27 

June  21.  A  little  frosty 

May  18 

Aug.  4.     A  little  frosty 

June  i 

June  23.    Quite  a  frost 

May  26 

May  1  6 

May  17 

June  2.  Frost  to  kill 

May  27 

May  18 

June  2.  A  flight  of  snow 

May  20 

June  2.  A   frost  to  kill 

May  15 

June  12.  Corn  killed 

May  15 

May  9 

June  13.     A  frost 

May  II 

June  15.     A  fall  of  snow 

May  17 

June  i.     A  fall  of  snow 

May  10 

June  4 

June  5  and  12.  Corn  killed 

May  22 

May  25 

May  19 

In  the  matter  of  footwear  the  earliest  settlers  in  town  wore 
Indian  moccasins  in  the  winter,  and  during  warm  weather  men 
and  women,  old  and  young,  went  barefoot  when  at  home.  As 
soon  as  they  began  to  slaughter  cattle  and  tan  yards  were  estab- 


THE  "OLDEN  TSME"  471 

lished,  the  hides  were  sent  to  the  tanners  to  be  made  into 
leather,  some  of  which  was  sold,  and  some  was  brought  home 
to  be  in  readiness  for  the  shoemaker  to  make  up  into  boots  and 
shoes  for  the  family.  The  shoemaker  travelled  from  house  to 
house  with  his  kit  of  tools,  and  as  much  footwear  was  made  up 
as  was  thought  would  last  the  whole  family  a  year.  The 
women's  shoes  were  coarse  and  heavy  like  the  men's,  and  it 
was  not  until  nearly  a  century  after  the  first  settlement  of  the 
town  that  soft  and  shapely  shoes  were  made  for  the  gentler  sex. 
Oh  !  those  old  long-legged,  cowhide  boots  !  Men  and  boys 
had  to  wear  them.  One  pair  was  supposed  to  last  for  a  year, 
with  the  help  of  the  cobbler.  Stiff  and  hard  at  the  best,  the 
snow  and  cold  of  winter  made  it  almost  impossible  to  get  them 
off  the  feet.  And  the  old  boot- jack  hanging  from  its  appointed 
peg — how  many  generations  wrestled  with  that !  Sometimes 
the  father's  or  brother's  assistance  was  invoked,  and  turning 
his  back  to  the  patient,  he  would  take  the  foot  between  his  legs, 
and  grasping  the  boot  with  both  hands,  either  pull  it  off  or  the 
other  fellow  out  of  his  chair. 

A  pot  of  tallow  was  kept  to  grease  the  boots  to  make  them 
impervious  to  water  and  to  soften  them  somewhat.  This  worked 
well  when  the  boots  were  warm,  but  when  they  became  cold  it 
made  them  stiff  as  boards.  After  a  time  long-legged  calf-skin 
boots,  sometimes  with  red  leather  tops,  began  to  be  worn. 
These  were  considered  very  genteel,  and  as  they  were  rarely 
worn  except  to  church,  they  lasted  for  a  long  time.  One  of  the 
deacons  in  town  used  to  show  a  pair  he  had  worn  for  twenty- five 
years,  and  they  were  in  pretty  fair  condition. 

In  many  of  the  houses  there  was  a  "  cobbler's  bench,"  and 
some  member  of  the  family  could  do  the  repairing,  so  the  boots 
were  patched  and  tapped  almost  as  long  as  the  leather  would 
hold  together. 

Among  the  few  blessings  of  the  early  settlers  was  a  good 
appetite.  They  were  valiant  trenchermen,  and  numberless  tradi- 
tions have  come  down  to  us  of  the  culinary  art  of  the  "  olden 
time."  But  the  truth  is,  the  diet  of  the  first-comers  was  scanty 
and  plain.  All  cooking  had  to  be  done  by  the  open  fire,  and 
this  continued  until  1835  or  1840,  when  cook-stoves  were  intro- 
duced. Thus,  for  a  hundred  years  from  the  time  John  Cram 
made  his  ' '  beginning, ' '  the  cooks  roasted  and  boiled  and 
baked  over  the  coals  in  the  fire-place.  And  this  in  more  senses 
than  one. 


472  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

The  woods  abounded  in  game  and  the  streams  with  fish,  and 
probably  people  did  not  go  hungry;  but  it  is  a  curious  fact  that 
our  ancestors  in  this  town  looked  with  disfavor  on  those  who 
spent  much  time  in  hunting  and  fishing,  and  many  sayings  de- 
rogatory to  the  man  or  boy  who  went  strolling  around  with  rod 
or  gun  have  come  down  to  us.  They  considered  it  a  sinful 
waste  of  time.  Doubtless  they  were  compelled  to  make  use  of 
the  fish  and  game,  but  they  much  preferred  domestic  meat.  As 
soon  as  they  could  raise  and  fatten  swine,  and  the  flocks  and 
herds  incresed,  they  seldom  made  use  of  the  creatures  of  the 
forest.  Of  course  there  were  exceptions  to  this  rule,  and  there 
are  traditions  of  Lyndeborough  men  who  were  mighty  hunters 
in  their  day. 

It  is  said  that  in  the  earlier  cabins  there  was  a  wooden  lug- 
pole  extending  over  the  fire  and  fastened  to  the  side  of  the  chim- 
ney. If  this  should  happen  to  burn  off,  it  was  replaced  by  a 
new  one.  On  this  were  hung  the  pots  and  kettles,  and  the 
housewife  used  a  strong  stick  to  lift  them  on  and  off,  running  a 
great  risk  of  setting  her  clothing  afire  in  doing  so.  But  when 
these  log  cabins  were  discarded  for  the  more  comfortable  framed 
houses,  and  more  substantial  brick  chimneys  were  built,  an  iron 
crane  extending  over  the  fire,  and  hung  at  the  side  of  the  fire- 
place so  that  it  could  be  swung  out  from  the  fire,  was  devised 
and  was  a  great  convenience.  On  it  the  kettles  could  be  ex- 
amined or  taken  off  with  little  risk  of  burns.  Cranes  continued 
to  be  used  until  cook  stoves  came,  and  the  old  fire-places  were 
bricked  up  and  the  hearth-stones  became  cold.  As  soon  as  the 
settlers  could  raise  corn  and  rye,  brown,  or  rye  and  Indian 
bread,  as  it  was  called,  was  the  only  bread  used.  This  was  not 
"steamed,"  as  now-a-days,  but  was  baked  in  large  loaves  be- 
fore the  fire  or  in  the  brick  oven,  and  of  course  there  was  much 
hard  crust.  This  crust,  softened  with  warm  water,  a  little  mo- 
lasses and  a  little  milk  being  added,  made  a  common  and  favor- 
ite supper  dish.  For  many  years  wheat  flour  was  not  to  be  had, 
and  when  it  first  did  come  in  use  it  was  so  costly  that  it  was 
considered  a  luxury  which  only  the  rich  could  afford.  Seven 
pounds  was  thought  to  be  an  ample  supply  for  a  year  in  most 
families.  It  was  bought  in  seven,  fourteen  and  twenty-eight- 
pound  lots.  When  a  youth,  Mr.  E.  C.  Curtis  worked  for  a  man 
in  the  haying  season  who  had  bought  a  supply  to  last  through 
that  time,  and  when  the  hay  was  all  cut  and  stored,  returned  to 
the  store  all  that  remained  of  the  flour.  Eli  Curtis  was  the  first 


THE  "OLDEN  TIME"  473 

one  in  town  to  purchase  a  whole  barrel  of  flour,  other  than  the 
store-keepers,  and  the  Widow  Cressy  was  the  second. 

Broths  and  stews  and  bean  porridge  were  common  articles  of 
diet.  Bean  porridge  was  made  in  quantities  to  last  the  family 
a  week  or  two,  as  bean  porridge  was  "  best  when  nine  days 
old."  Occasionally  a  veal  calf  would  be  killed,  and  part  of  the 
meat  loaned  to  the  neighbors,  to  be  returned  when  they  in  turn 
should  kill  one.  Salted  meats  and  salted  codfish  were  the  main- 
stay during  the  year,  and  one  definition  of  a  fore-handed  farmer 
in  those  days  was  one  who  always  had  "  pork  in  the  barrel  and 
corn  in  the  chamber."  Naturally,  there  was  always  a  craving 
for  "  fresh  meat,"  and  the  settlers  looked  forward  to  pig-killing 
time  with  lively  anticipation  of  juicy  "  spare-rib  "  and  "  chine  " 
of  fresh  pork. 

Garden  vegetables,  as  we  know  them  now,  they  did  not  have, 
and  if  the  truth  be  told  they  did  not  try  to  have  even  the  few 
and  inferior  kinds  then  known.  Fifty  years  ago  a  man  who 
spent  much  time  trying  to  have  a  vegetable  garden  was  consid- 
ered a  ' '  putterer  ; ' '  and  if  he  should  have  any  leanings  toward 
flowers,  his  sanity  was  called  in  question.  Pumpkins,  squash, 
beets,  carrots  and  turnips,  with  the  inevitable  bed  of  sage,  made 
up  the  utmost  of  their  efforts  in  the  garden  line  in  the  long  ago. 

Cook  stoves  were  slow  in  coming  into  use  in  I/yndeborough, 
as,  indeed,  they  were  in  other  towns.  The  women  were  used 
to  cooking  by  the  open  fire  and  looked  askance  at  the  new  in- 
vention. Chase  Hadley  bought  one  of  the  first  to  be  brought 
into  town,  and  it  was  set  up  in  the  kitchen  by  the  side  of  the 
old  fire-place.  It  was  two  or  three  years  before  his  wife  could 
be  persuaded  to  use  it  at  all,  and  she  cooked  by  the  open  fire 
and  baked  in  the  brick  oven  more  or  less  as  long  as  she  kept 
house.  It  was  the  common  thing  to  set  up  stoves  beside  the 
open  fire-place  and  run  both. 

Previous  to  the  coming  of  the  cook-stove,  there  was  a  con- 
trivance introduced,  called  a  "tin  baker,"  which  was  thought 
by  the  housewives  to  be  a  fine  thing.  My  grandfather  owned 
one,  but  I  never  saw  it  in  operation.  It  was  made  to  set  up 
before  the  fire,  and  was  generally  used  when  there  was  a  ' '  hurry 
call  "  for  a  meal.  Probably  they  have  not  been  used  since  1850. 
But  the  old  brick  oven  !  Never  were  such  pies  and  cakes  and 
puddings  since,  as  were  turned  out  of  that  warm  cavern  !  Ap- 
petite had  nothing  whatever  to  do  with  the  excellency  of  the 
viands.  They  were  better,  far  better,  than  any  baked  in  a 


474  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

modern  range.  Baked  beans,  brown  bread,  and  Indian  pudding 
comprised  the  "menu"  for  Sunday  in  every  family.  These 
could  be  prepared  the  Saturday  before,  and  consigned  to  the 
brick  oven  to  come  out  piping  hot  when  wanted.  Thus  the 
sin  of  cooking  on  the  Sabbath  was  avoided. 

It  was  not  until  1835  that  friction  matches  were  used  in 
L,yndeborough.  They  had  been  invented  in  England  a  few 
years  before,  but  were  so  costly  in  those  days  when  money  was 
scarce,  that  they  were  not  freely  used.  Therefore,  for  the  first 
century  in  the  history  of  the  town,  the  flint  and  steel  and  tinder 
box  method  was  the  only  one  by  which  to  produce  fire.  But 
this  was  a  very  troublesome  way.  Skill  was  required  to  strike 
the  spark,  catch  it  in  the  tinder  and  blow  it  into  flame.  There 
was  a  flint  and  steel  in  most  families,  but  their  main  reliance 
was  in  care  that  the  fire  should  not  go  out.  It  was  carefully 
covered  every  night.  The  glowing  coals  were  raked  together 
and  covered  deep  with  ashes,  and  in  the  morning  this  heap  of 
ashes  would  be  opened,  dry  wood  laid  thereon,  and  soon  a  good 
fire  was  burning.  But  sometimes  in  spite  of  all  care  it  would 
go  out,  and  then  some  one  would  go  to  the  neighbors  to  borrow 
fire.  One  old  lady  who  lived  on  the  mountain  has  told  the 
writer  of  going  to  John  Ordway's,  who  lived  where  Charles  J. 
Cunimings  lives  now,  to  get  fire.  Once  both  families  happened 
to  be  destitute  of  the  necessity  on  the  same  morning,  and  she 
had  to  go  over  to  Robert  Badger's,  where  Harry  Richardson 
now  lives,  to  get  coals. 

Those  of  us  who  grumble  at  getting  up  cold  mornings  and 
starting  the  fire  with  matches  and  good  kindling,  might  reflect 
upon  going  a  mile  or  more  through  the  snow  and  bringing 
home  coals  in  a  kettle  before  we  could  have  a  fire,  and  be 
content. 

The  wood  was  burned  green,  and  the  practice  of  storing  a 
year's  supply  of  dry  wood  was  unthought  of.  The  wood  was 
piled  in  the  yard,  and  the  day's  supply  prepared  as  needed,  and 
it  was  prepared  with  an  axe  too ;  wood-saws  and  saw-horses 
were  not  much  used  then.  Digging  it  out  of  the  snow  in  winter 
or  sweating  in  wielding,  the  axe  in  summer,  it  was  all  the 
same.  My  grandfather  built  the  first  woodshed  north  of  the 
mountain  in  the  year  1820.  Possibly  this  was  the  first  in  town. 

It  was  a  good  many  years  after  the  first  settlement  of  the 
town  that  tea  and  coffee  became  common  beverages.  Substi- 
tutes were  used  to  some  extent.  Some  thought  the  young  and 


THE  "OLDEN  TIME"  475 

tender  leaves  of  the  raspberry  bush,  dried  and  steeped,  made  a 
fairly  good  tea,  and  bread  crusts  were  browned  and  made  to 
take  the  place  of  coffee,  but  it  must  be  said  that  New  England 
rum  was  plenty  from  the  start . 

It  is  not  the  province  of  the  historian  to  moralize  on  this  sub- 
ject but  to  record  facts,  and  one  fact  was  that  the  drinking  of 
liquor  was  the  custom  of  the  time,  and  was  not  thought  wrong 
or  harmful.  Everyone  from  the  minister  down  to  his  poorest 
parishioner  kept  a  supply  on  hand  and  drank  it  himself  and 
offered  it  in  hospitality  to  his  guests.  It  was  provided  at 
funerals,  as  witness  at  the  funeral  of  the  Rev.  Sewall  Good- 
ridge  the  rum  and  sugar  "  for  the  singers  "  cost  $2.25.  It  was 
abundant  at  weddings ;  and  at  log-pilings,  huskings  and  rais- 
ings it  was  freely  used.  It  was  considered  the  height  of  dis- 
courtesy not  to  offer  ' '  spirit ' '  to  the  minister  when  he  made  a 
pastoral  visit.  Rum  could  be  bought  in  the  early  days  for 
twenty-five  cents  per  gallon.  One  man  who  formerly  lived  in 
town  used  to  pass  the  house  of  a  temperance  woman,  on  his 
regular  trips  to  get  his  jug  filled.  She  hailed  him  one  day  and 
this  colloquy  ensued : 

"  Going  after  more  rum,  I  suppose  ?  " 
"  Yes,  ma'am." 

' '  I  wish  rum  cost  ten  dollars  a  gallon  !  ' ' 
"  Its  wuth  it  ma'am,  its  wuth  it !  " 

There  were  many  taverns  in  town  where  it  was  sold  and  these 
were  duly  licensed  by  the  town.  They  were  considered  emi- 
nently respectable  and  citizens  of  standing  would  call  for  a  glass 
or  mug  of  "flip."  The  weighty  affairs  of  town  policy  would 
be  discussed  and  settled  over  a  steaming  joram  of  punch  at 
Capt.  William  Barren's  hostelry.  The  stores  all  kept  liquor 
for  sale,  and  to  treat  their  customers.  At  the  musters  and  train- 
ings in  addition  to  the  "Spirit  of  '76"  there  was  generally  a 
barrel  or  two  of  rum.  It  may  be  said  also  that  the  liquors 
were  pure  in  those  days  and  the  heads  were  strong,  and  the 
consequences  of  drunkenness  were  not  as  grave  as  might  be 
supposed. 

This  condition  of  affairs  continued  until  the  temperance  re- 
form movement  in  the  decade  from  1830  to  1840.  Dr.  Israel 
Herrick  was  one  of  the  leaders  of  that  movement  in  I^ynde- 
borough.  He  says  of  himself:  "  I  went  into  this  movement 
with  my  whole  soul,  without  regard  to  my  reputation  or  pecu- 


476  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

niary  loss,  and  I  thank  God  he  so  directed  me  and  gave  me 
strength  to  do  it." 

With  the  help  of  others  he  carried  forward  the  crusade 
against  dram  drinking  until  the  practice  was  pretty  generally 
abandoned.  But  years  before  this  was  brought  about,  the 
apple  orchards  planted  by  the  settlers  had  begun  to  bear,  and 
they  bore  cider  apples.  Out  of  a  large  orchard,  but  two  or 
three  trees,  perhaps,  would  bear  fruit  fit  for  eating ;  so  the 
' '  cider  apples  ' '  were  made  into  cider  and  rum  was  supple- 
mented by  this  beverage.  Almost  every  one  stored  many 
barrels  of  it  in  his  cellar.  One  family  put  forty  barrels  of 
apple  juice  in  the  cellar  in  the  fall.  It  was  all  gone  in  April, 
and  the  men  were  in  the  market  trying  to  swap  labor  for  cider. 

There  were  cider  mills  on  the  following  farms  : 

Ephraim  Putnam's,  where  Frank  Pettengill  now  lives  ;  David 
Putnam  2d's,  near  where  Edwin  H.  Putnam  lives ;  Gideon 
Cram's,  where  Luther  Cram  lives  ;  Uriah  Cram's,  now  called 
the  Putnam  place  ;  one  on  the  Ellingwood  place ;  one  at  Eben 
Bachelder's  ;  one  at  Jacob  Wellman's,  where  George  Carson 
lives ;  one  at  Timothy  Richardson's,  where  F.  A.  Richardson 
lives ;  one  at  Andrew  Fuller's,  where  Moses  C.  Fuller  lives  ; 
one  at  Solomon  Cram's,  where  Willard  Rose  lives;  one  at  Ben- 
jamin Jones',  where  Mr.  Wilson  lives ;  one  at  the  Deacon  Good- 
rich place,  North  L,yndeborough  ;  one  at  the  Stephenson  place  ; 
one  at  the  farm  where  H.  H.  Joslin  lives,  and  doubtless  some 
others  in  the  "  olden  time."  There  is  not  an  old-fashioned  cider 
mill  in  town  now.  All  have  been  destroyed.  They  would  be 
something  of  a  curiosity  to  the  boy  or  girl  of  to-day. 

Sections  of  a  hard  wood  log  about  two  feet  long  and  nearly 
the  same  in  diameter  were  prepared.  Holes  were  mortised  in 
one  of  them,  and  tenons  or  projections  to  match  the  holes  were 
set  into  the  other.  These  rollers  were  set  upright  in  a  strong 
frame  and  made  to  revolve  one  against  the  other  by  a  long 
sweep  fastened  to  one  of  them.  This  sweep  was  quite  a  stick 
of  timber,  and  was  crooked  in  order  that  one  end  might  come 
near  enough  to  the  floor  so  a  horse  could  be  hitched  to  it.  A 
hopper  led  the  apples  against  the  rollers,  or  "nuts,"  as  they 
were  called.  A  boy  was  generally  perched  on  the  frame  to 
scrape  the  pomace  from  the  rollers  (scraping  the  nuts,  it  was 
called),  the  horse  travelled  round  and  round  in  a  circle,  and 
with  much  creaking  and  noise  the  fruit  was  crushed,  the  juice 
and  pomace  falling  into  a  vat  below. 


THE  "OLDEN  TIME"  477 

The  pomace  was  placed  in  the  press  with  big  wooden  scoop 
shovels,  the  layers  separated  with  straw  ;  pressure  was  applied 
with  wooden  screws,  some  of  them  six  or  eight  inches  in  diame- 
ter. These  were  turned  by  levers,  and  thus  slowly,  very  slowly, 
cider  was  made  in  the  "  olden  time."  But  if  all  traditions  are 
true,  it  was  not  "  slowly,  very  slowly  "  imbibed. 

Now,  it  is  said  that  the  cider  made  in  those  days  was  better 
than  that  made  today,  for  the  "  pressing  "  was  allowed  to  stand 
over  night  in  the  vat,  and  acquired  a  heavier  ' '  body  ' '  and  bet- 
ter color  and  flavor.  Cider  and  apples  were  the  standard  re- 
freshment offered  to  evening  visitors  for  a  good  many  years,  and 
by  that  same  token,  to  day-time  callers  as  well.  Some  of  the 
old  ' '  cider  mugs  ' '  shown  in  antique  collections  held  a  generous 
measure,  and  the  "  boy  "  whose  duty  it  was  to  draw  cider  made 
many  journeys  to  the  cellar. 

When  not  in  use  the  old  cider  mill  was  a  favorite  play-ground 
for  the  children.  Its  cumbrous  machinery,  its  pleasant,  musty, 
fruity  smell,  its  opportunities  for  hiding,  had  a  fascination  for 
boys  and  girls.  Many  a  middle-aged  man  raised  in  the  country 
has  a  glad  memory  of  the  old  cider  mill  on  the  farm. 

In  recent  years  comparatively  little  cider  is  made  in  L,ynde- 
borough.  Andy  Holt  made  it  for  a  number  of  years  at  the  old 
Stephenson  mill,  which  he  purchased,  but  none  is  made  there 
now.  Edwin  H.  Putnam  has  the  only  mill  in  town  now  where 
it  is  made  to  any  extent.  He  has  facilities  for  making  "  cider 
jelly,"  and  does  quite  a  business  at  that.  His  is  a  "  grater" 
mill,  and  the  juice  and  pomace  are  carried  directly  to  a  hydraulic 
press.  A  load  of  apples  may  be  carried  to  this  mill,  and  the 
cider  made  "  while  you  wait." 

Sometimes  the  cider  press  was  used  in  pressing  hops.  There 
were  many  hop-yards  in  Lyndeborough  up  to  about  1860.  Dea. 
William  Jones  had  one  on  the  hill  north  of  his  house,  and  on 
the  opposite  side  of  the  road  from  this  was  the  hop-yard  of 
Samuel  Jones.  Thus  that  hill  came  to  be  known  as  Hop-Yard 
hill.  Sherebiah  Manning  had  a  hop-house  and  press  on  the 
Benj.  Jones  place,  and  there  were  other  farms  where  hops  were 
raised.  The  opening  of  the  fertile  lands  of  the  West  killed  the 
industry  in  this  section. 

The  question  is  sometimes  asked  now-a-days  :  Do  people  en- 
joy themselves  in  these  days  as  well  as  they  did  in  the  ' '  olden 
times  ' '  ?  One  old  lady  of  whom  the  writer  asked  the  question 
replied  :  "  Well,  I  don't  know.  Folks  had  a  proper  good  time 


478  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

when  I  was  a  girl — better  than  they  do  now,  I  guess.  They 
did  not  seem  to  have  so  much  to  worry  about."  It  must  not 
be  supposed  that  the  people  who  built  up  the  town  of  L,ynde- 
borough  did  not  have  their  pleasures,  in  spite  of  the  privations 
and  hardships  of  pioneer  life  ;  but  it  is  a  curious  fact  that  about 
all  of  the  early  amusements  were  somehow  connected  with 
work.  Something  must  be  accomplished.  Laziness  was  a  sin, 
and  to  be  called  shiftless  was  a  deep  disgrace,  while  many  grave 
faults  were  condoned  or  overlooked  in  a  person  if  only  he  were 
"smart  to  work." 

So  they  had  log-pilings,  huskings,  raisings  and  chopping- 
bees.  The  women,  their  quiltings,  paring-bees  and  spinning- 
bees  ;  and  in  each  and  all  was  the  element  of  work. 

Before  the  practice  of  shocking  corn,  now  so  general,  came 
in  vogue,  the  farmers  used  to  "  cut  the  stalks"  just  above  the 
ear.  These  were  cured  for  fodder,  and  the  remainder  of  the 
corn  plant  was  allowed  to  ripen  in  the  field.  L,ate  in  the  fall 
this  was  cut  up  and  carried  to  the  barn,  and  an  immense  pile 
made,  the  length  of  the  barn  floor.  Rough-and-ready  seats 
were  placed  along  one  side,  stacks  of  doughnuts  and  pies  were 
made,  invitations  were  sent  around,  and  everything  was  ready 
for  a  "  husking." 

Almost  every  one  came,  young  and  old  of  both  sexes,  bring- 
ing lanterns,  which  were  hung  on  pitchforks  placed  in  the  hay- 
mows, to  help  illuminate.  Hoarded  ears  of  red  corn  were  sur- 
reptitiously placed  in  the  pile.  Then  there  were  busy  hands 
and  busy  tongues,  shouts  of  laughter  as  red-ear  forfeits  were 
paid,  now  and  then  a  wrestling  match,  until  the  pile  of  corn 
dwindled  away,  and  the  carriers  of  baskets  to  the  chamber 
found  their  occupation  gone.  Then  to  the  house  and  big 
kitchen,  where  there  was  a  bountiful  supper  of  baked  beans, 
brown  bread,  doughnuts  and  pies  (probably  not  a  dyspeptic 
there),  coffee  and  cider,  and  perhaps  just  a  little  rum  for  the 
aged.  And  that  was  a  I,yndeborough  "husking"  of  the  long 
ago. 

Since  the  custom  of  shocking  corn  or  cutting  and  binding  in 
shocks  in  the  field  obtained,  there  have  been  very  few  huskings 
in  town. 

The  old-fashioned  barn  was  not  quite  like  those  of  the  pres- 
ent day,  and  most  of  those  built  in  the  early  days  were  much 
smaller.  The  "big  door  "  was  in  the  side,  and  the  barn  floor 
ran  from  side  to  side,  with  the  "tie  up  "  and  scaffold  at  one 


THE  "OLDEN  TIME"  479 

end  and  a  big  "  bay  "  in  the  other.  One  entire  side  of  the  barn 
was  pinned  together  and  raised,  and  as  the  timbers  were  large 
and  green,  it  took  about  all  the  help  in  the  neighborhood  to 
raise  it  into  place. 

No  matter  how  busy  the  season,  or  what  work  was  on  hand, 
all  the  men  and  boys  dropped  everything  to  attend  a  "  raising," 
and  women,  too,  for  that  matter,  as  much  help  was  required  to 
feed  such  a  crowd  of  hungry  men.  The  boss  carpenter  was  the 
man  of  the  hour  and  the  work  was  performed  under  his  direc- 
tion. Reliable  men  were  stationed  with  iron  bars  to  guide  the 
tenons  into  the  mortises  in  the  sill ;  as  many  men  as  could  get 
a  hold  grasped  the  "band,"  as  it  was  called,  and  raised  it  as 
far  as  they  could ;  another  contingent  stood  ready  with  pike 
poles  to  push  it  still  farther  up,  and  thus  steadily  it  was  raised 
until  the  tenons  slipped  into  the  mortises  and  it  was  pinned  and 
secure. 

There  was  some  excitement  in  raising  the  heavy  mass  of 
timbers  and  now  and  then  a  wavering  as  one  side  or  the  other 
was  raised  faster,  but  there  are  no  traditions  of  any  serious 
accident  happening  on  such  occasions  in  town. 

In  modern  barns  where  the  barn-floor  runs  from  end  to  end, 
the  ' '  bands ' '  are  smaller.  In  the  old  barns  the  timber  was 
generally  hewn,  and  the  boring  for  mortises  and  pins  was  done 
by  the  old  pod  augur.  They  were  put  together,  however,  in 
such  workmanlike  manner  that  it  has  always  been  a  hard 
matter  to  tear  them  down. 

These  raisings  were  the  occasion  of  many  feats  of  daring  by 
men  on  the  frame,  and  for  many  a  wrestling  match.  After  the 
roof  was  on  and  everything  done,  refreshments,  both  solid  and 
liquid,  were  in  order  and  in  the  very  early  days  they  did  not 
wait  until  all  was  finished  before  serving  liquids. 

The  first  barn  raised  in  L,yndeborough  without  rum  was  that 
of  Dea.  William  Jones.  It  was  in  the  beginning  of  the  "  tem- 
perance reform  ' '  movement  and  the  deacon  resolved  to  be  the 
pioneer  in  raising  a  barn  without  the  use  of  liquor.  The  frame 
being  in  readiness,  word  was  sent  round  giving  notice  of  the 
day  of  the  raising,  and  the  neighbors  turned  out  in  full  num- 
bers, as  usual,  to  give  their  assistance,  but  were  somewhat 
amazed  and  disconcerted  when  it  was  whispered  that  this  was  a 
temperance  affair,  and  that  no  rum  or  other  liquors  were  to  be 
supplied.  Not  much  was  said  however,  and  they  manned  the 
first  band,  and,  raising  it  a  few  feet,  began  to  shout,  "  Bring  on 


480  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

your  rum  !  bring  on  your  rum  !  ' '  No  rum  being  forthcoming 
they  lowered  the  timbers  to  their  former  place  and  sat  down  to 
rest.  After  a  short  time  they  again  raised  the  band  a  little  way, 
some  of  the  men  bearing  down  to  counteract  the  efforts  of  some 
who  were  willing  to  lift  it  to  its  place,  and  again  the  demand 
was  made  for  rum.  The  deacon  then  told  them  that  that  barn 
was  going  up  without  rum  or  not  at  all,  and  they  deliberately 
returned  to  their  homes.  The  deacon  then  hitched  up  his 
horse  and  scoured  his  own  and  the  neighboring  towns  until  he 
had  secured  a  full  complement  of  temperance  help,  and  in  a  day 
or  two  the  barn  was  raised. 

Rev.  Mr.  Claggett  was  the  originator  of  that  form  of  enter- 
tainment called  the  "  sociable."  This  was  a  gathering  at  the 
different  homes  to  spend  the  afternoon  and  evening.  Notice 
was  generally  given  from  the  pulpit  and  all  attended.  The 
young  people  pre-empted  one  or  two  rooms  to  themselves  where 
games  were  played  and  the  older  ones  had  the  parlor  or  best 
room  where  the  news  of  the  day  was  discussed,  and  where  they 
compared  notes  of  the  crops  and  of  the  live  stock.  During  the 
Cival  War  these  sociables  were  merged  into  Soldiers'  Aid  socie- 
ties and  the  young  men  held  the  yarn  and  the  girls  wound  it 
into  balls,  and  the  women  knit  stockings  or  made  ' '  comfort 
bags  "  to  send  to  the  "boys  in  blue  "  at  the  front. 

For  many  decades  the  annual  donation  party  to  the  minister 
was  a  social  event  in  the  life  of  the  town.  Its  ostensible  pur- 
pose was  to  help  out  the  meagre  salary  of  the  pastor,  though 
many  ' '  outside  the  fold ' '  were  wont  to  hint  that  it  impover- 
ished him,  for  the  visitors  ate  up  more  than  they  carried.  But 
it  was  a  popular  idea  and  almost  everyone  attended,  bringing 
as  a  gift  almost  anything  from  a  link  of  sausage  to  a  load  of 
wood.  Whatever  the  Rev.  Mr.  Claggett's  real  opinion  of  a 
donation  party  was,  he  never  gave  any  sign  other  than  of  un- 
alloyed pleasure  in  meeting  his  people  on  these  occasions.  He 
had  a  gracious  and  cheerful  greeting  for  everybody.  No  one 
escaped  his  notice,  from  the  aged  grandsire  to  the  smallest  tot 
present. 

The  party  was  held  at  the  parsonage  generally  in  the  winter 
season.  Many  came  in  the  afternoon  and  remained  to  tea,  and 
in  the  evening  the  house  was  filled  to  overflowing.  Supper  was 
served  to  all,  whether  they  came  early  or  late.  The  pastor's 
wife  took  special  pains  to  see  that  the  young  people  had  a  good 
time,  and  entered  into  the  spirit  of  fun  in  the  games  with  the 


THE  "OLDEN  TIME"  481 

liveliest  of  them.  The  old-fashioned  donation  party  is  a  thing 
of  the  past,  the  last  one  in  this  parish  being  given  to  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Sawin  in  1878. 

But  the  most  popular  recreation  among  the  fathers  was  the 
singing-school.  There  were  singing-schools  in  I^yndeborough 
as  early  as  1820,  and  they  did  not  begin  to  decline  in  favor  until 
comparatively  recent  years.  People  loved  to  sing  in  the  old 
days,  and  were  willing  to  strive  to  learn  how.  And  then  the 
merry  sleigh-rides  to  and  from  the  school  in  winter  evenings ! 
Some  young  men  would  load  the  horse-sled  or  pung  with  a  bevy 
of  young  lady  acquaintances,  and  generally  manage  to  adroitly 
spill  the  lot  into  a  snow  bank  once  or  twice  before  they  reached 
their  homes  again.  Many  a  courtship  began  with  an  invitation 
to  go  to  singing-school. 

Almost  every  one  went  either  to  sing  or  to  listen,  and  L,ynde- 
borough  became  celebrated  in  all  the  towns  about  for  its  num- 
ber of  good  singers.  And  the  town  furnished  some  good 
teachers,  too,  Ira  Houston,  Daniel  Woodward,  Jr.,  and  Eli 
Clark  Curtis  among  the  number.  The  earliest  singing-school 
of  which  the  writer  can  get  any  tradition  was  held  in  the  hall 
of  the  old  Jonas  Kidder  house,  where  R.  C.  Mason  now  lives. 
They  were  held  in  the  hall  in  the  old  store-house  at  the  Centre 
for  a  number  of  years.  (The  seats  running  around  the  sides 
of  this  hall  were  in  place  when  the  house  was  burned,  in  1870). 
It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  pupils  graduated  from  these  schools 
into  the  church  choir.  The  decadence  of  the  singing-school  in 
I/yndeborough  commenced  about  1860. 


CHAPTER   XXVIII. 
OLD  DEEDS. 

We  give  below  epitomes  of  a  number  of  old  deeds.  Some  of 
these  are  based  on  records  transferred  a  few  years  ago  from 
Exeter  to  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state  at  Concord.  Others 
are  from  records  at  the  county  registrar's  office  in  Nashua  ;  and 
still  others  are  from  the  original  documents,  kindly  lent  the 
compiler  by  their  present  owners. 

OFFICE   OF   SECRETARY   OF   STATE. 

No.  i.  (i743>  Januarys.)  Samuel  Leman  Jr.  to  Benjamin  Gould  of 
Chelmsford,  Mass.,  (Bond)  on  Second  Division  Lot  No.  68,  drawn  by 
Benjamin  Gould  on  Right  of  Isaac  Williams,  heir  of  his  uncle,  Jonathan 
Williams.  Consideration,  5^".  O.  T.  bills. 

No.  2.  (1743,  January  15.)  John  Cram  bought  of  Joseph  Blaney,  Esq., 
of  Salem,  Mass.,  Second  Division  Lot  No.  41  for  2o£.  (Recorded  Vol. 
VI.  105.) 

No.  3.  (1744,  January  30. )  Samuel  Leman,  Jr.,  sold  to  Melchizedeck 
Boffee  90  acres  of  Second  Division  Lot  No.  68. 

No.  4.  (1745,  December  31.)  Samuel  Leman,  Jr.,  to  David  Stratton, 
about  40  acres  of  Second  Division  Lot  No.  68.  Consideration  25^". 

No.  5.  (1753,  February  23,  Vol.  88,  p.  403.)  John  Cram  deeded  to 
Ephraim  Putnam  Sixty  acres  of  Second  Division  Lot  No.  41,  bounded  as 
follows  :  "  South  by  line  of  Lot  No.  30;  West  by  line  of  No.  40,  coming 
within  16  rods  of  its  northern  corner ;  then  runs  80  rod  East ;  and  then 
runs  South  16  rod,  and  from  thence  East  to  the  N.  W.  corner  of  the 
barn,  and  from  thence  to  the  corner  of  the  Southwest  Flanker  of  the 
Fort,  and  thence  south  to  a  Pople  Tree  ....  and  so  a  straight  line 
to  the  South  line  of  said  lot." 

(Fort.)  This  gives  clear  evidence  of  the  existence  of  the  Fort,  com- 
manded for  a  time  by  John  Cram,  and  later  by  Ephraim  Putnam,  his 
son-in-law,  who  married  his  daughter  Sarah. 

No.  6.  (1757,  June  17,  Vol.  73,  p.  416.)  Adam  Carson  of  New  Boston 
to  William  McNeal,  Jr.,  his  heirs  &c.,  a  part  of  Lot  No.  48,  beginning  at 
the  N.  W.  corner  of  said  land  "  runs  S.  two  degrees  E.  by  land  of  William 
Carson,  120  rod,  then  E.  4  degrees  N.  40  rod,  then  N.  2  degrees  W.  120 
rod  or  poles  to  a  black  birch  marked,  then  W.  4  degrees  S.  to  the  bounds 
first  mentioned,  containing  about  60  acres,  for  250^".  in  O.  T.  bills." 

No.  7.  (1759,  February  i,  Vol.  66,  p.  328.)  Jonathan  Cram,  Jr.,  to 
John  Rand,  130  acres,  being  Lot  No.  57,  Second  Division,  for  60^"  sterl- 
ing ;  bounded  Eastwardly  on  Lot  127,  Westwardly  on  Lot  58,  North- 
wardly on  Lot  No.  70,  Southerly  on  56. 

No.  8.  (1759,  July  27>  Vol.  62,  p.  466.)  Carson  (Adam?)  to  Jacob 
Wellman,  a  lot  of  land  bounded  as  follows :  Beginning  at  the  N.  E. 


OLD  DEEDS  483 

corner  of  Home  Lot  No.  48,  thence  40  rod  S.  to  an  upland  black  birch, 
then  W.  to  a  stake  and  stones  standing  20  rod  from  the  W.  side  of  said 
lot ;  then  N.  about  16^  rod,  then  N.  42  degrees  W.  to  a  stake  and  stones, 
then  E.  to  the  bounds  first  mentioned,  containing  u  acres. 

No.  9.  (1762,  August  28,  Vol.  87,  p.  415.)  Nehemiah  Rand  of  Charles- 
town,  Mass.,  received  a  Deed  from  Samuel  Wells  of  Boston,  of  Lot  No. 
71,  containing  130  acres,  in  consideration  of  27^. 

No.  10.  (1763,  March  10.)  Benjamin  I/ynde  to  Joseph  Blaney,  Second 
Division  Lot  No.  63,  bounded  N.  by  Lot  64  ;  B.  by  Lot  62  ;  S.  by  Lot  50; 
W.  by  the  Masonian  Proprietors'  Land. 

No.  u.  (1763,  June  10,  Vol.  87,  p.  412.)  John  Rand,  Clerk,  to  Nehe- 
miah Rand,  in  consideration  of  35^".,  "  Lot  No.  127,  of  130  acres,  bounded 
westwardly  on  Lot  on  which  I  live,  No.  71."  Signed  by  John  and  Sarah 
Rand. 

No.  12.  (1764,  January  18,  Vol.  73,  p.  132.)  John  Carson  of  New 
Boston  to  Stephen  Whiting  of  Dedham,  Mass.,  a  lot  containing  about  7 
acres. 

No.  13.  (1764,  February  23,  Vol.  71,  p.  305.)  James  Richardson  of 
Salem,  Mass.,  Heir  of  Major  Joseph  B.  Richardson  of  Woburn,  Mass., 
sold  to  Benjamin  Lynde  six  sevenths  of  James  Richardson's  two  Rights, 
the  other  seventh  having  been  given  to  Joseph  Bevins  for  settling,  and 
what  was  sold  for  taxes. 

No.  14.  (1764,  December  i,  Vol.  74,  p.  313.)  Stephen  Spaulding  of 
Derry,  to  David  Stratton  of  Lyndeborough,  70  acres,  more  or  less, 
bounded  thus  :  Beginning  at  the  N.  W.  corner  of  Lot  No.  68,  running  S. 
to  its  S.  W.  corner  ;  from  thence  running  E.  49  rod,  4  ft.,  from  thence  N. 
across  the  lot  to  a  rock  maple  tree  on  the  N.  Line  of  said  lot ;  thence 
running  E.  12^  rod  to  a  white  maple  and  heap  of  stones  &c. 

No.  15.  (1764,  April  25,  Vol.  72,  p.  514.)  Edward  Bevins,  Jr.,  to  Benja- 
min Lynde,  in  consideration  of  i6£  L.  M.,  home  Lot  No.  18,  at  gun  hill 
bounded  north  on  Lot  No.  28,  E.  on  Lot  No.  19 ;  S.  on  Lot  No.  5,  and  W. 
on  Lot  No.  17,  and  contains  about  68  acres,  and  is  the  Lot  bought  of  said 
Lynde. 

No.  16.  (1765,  May  30,  Vol.  79,  p.  407.)  Stephen  Putnam,  Carpenter, 
of  Danvers,  Mass.,  to  Edward  Spaulding  of  Nottingham  West,  for  40^"., 
L.  M.,  260  acres,  being  Lots  No.  113  and  122. 

No.  17.  (1765,  September  25,  Vol. -78,  p.  261.;  Mrs.  Martha  Birne, 
grand-daughter  of  Major  Joshua  Hicks,  through  Benjamin  Lynde,  Benja- 
min Pickman,  John  Bickford,  Benjamin  Goodhue  and  Joseph  Blaney, 
Committee  for  Lyndeborough,  sold  to  James  Grant  Lot  No.  47,  being  one 
half  of  the  commons  for  said  lots. 

No.  18.  (1765,  Vol.  72,  p.  414.)  Daniel  Mackey  of  Salem,  Mass.,  in 
consideration  of  13^.  6s.  &  8d.  deeded  one  fourth  part  of  two  Rights  to 
Benjamin  Lynde,  which  Rights  were  set  off  to  Major  Joshua  Hicks, 
deceased,  (the  home  lot  No.  47,  having  been  given  to  William  Carson  for 
settling. ) 

No.  19.  (1766,  May  i,  Vol.  99,  p.  343;  Vol.  91,  p.  58,  is  a  bond  from 
Kidder  to  Lynde.)  Benjamin  Lynde,  for  31  Pound  L.  M.,  deeded  to 


484  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

Jonas  Kidder,  Lot  No.  105,  Second  Division,  bounded  N.  by  112,  belong- 
ing to  Glover,  E.  on  Lot  No.  106,  S.  on  Lot  No.  94,  Ordways's,  West  by 
No.  104,  Asa  Stiles's  ;  the  same  containing  130  acres. 

No.  20.  (1766,  June  13,  Vol.  78,  pp.  256  and  268).  William  Thompson 
of  Merrimack  to  Benjamin  Lynde,  in  consideration  of  $$£.  6s.  8d.  L.  M. 
2nd.  Division  Lot  No.  65,  bounded  N.  by  No.  80,  E.  by  No.  66,  S.  by  62, 
and  W.  by  64.  This  was  a  bond  for  the  payment  of  said  sum  before  the 
date  specified. 

No.  21.  (1766,  June  13,  Vol.  78,  pp.  266  and  268.;  Peter  Russell  of 
Merrimack  200  acres  for  53^.  6s.  8d.  L.  M. 

No.  22.  (1767,  September  30,  Vol.  79,  p.  273.)  John  Rand  to  Moses 
Barron  of  Bedford,  Home  Lot  No.  34,  containing  60  acres  for  9^".  L.  M. 
and  Lot  No.  126  containing  130  acres. 

No.  23.  (1768,  May  16.)  James  Boutwell,  to  Nehemiah  Rand  in 
Lyndeborough,  2nd.  Division  Lot  No.  57,  containing  130  acres. 

No.  24.  (1768,  June  3,  Vol.  98,  p.  398.)  Remised,  Released  &c.  from 
Barron  (See  No.  22.)  to  Nehemiah  Rand,  Home  Lot  No.  37,  (called  34,  in 
Vol.  79,  p.  273.)  The  consideration  the  same. 

No.  25.  (1768,  August  23.)  Stephen  Putnam  sold  to  Benjamin  Lynde 
for  4£.  the  common  lands  of  a  Right  which  he  "had  in  the  township  of 
Lyndeborough  which  remained  after  the  Second  Division  Lots  were  sold 
to  Spaulding  and  others."  (For  Stephen  Putnam  see  No.  16,  above.) 

No.  26.  (1768,  November  7,  Vol.  99,  p.  457.)  Jonathan  Burton  of  Wil- 
ton, to  Benjamin  Lynde,  his  heirs,  &c.,  Lot  No.  19  in  range  5,  containing 
50  acres. 

No.  27.  (1768,  December  21,  Vol.  98,  p.  142.)  (Grant.)  Benjamin 
Lynde  to  Osgood  Carleton,  Second  Division  Lot  No.  56,  containing  130 
acres. 

No.  28.  (1769,  November  i,  Vol.  90,  p.  294.)  Reuben  Spaulding  of 
Nottingham  West  bought  of  John  Glover  for  92^  L.  M.  the  two  Second 
Division  Lots  No.  112  &  123,  bounded  E.  by  No.  in  &  124;  S.  on  Lot  No. 
105;  W.  by  113  &  122;  N.  by  2nd  Division  Lot  No.  5,  or  otherwise  as  by 
plan,  containing  about  260  acres. 

No.  29.  (1770,  April  28.  Rockingham  Records,  Vol.  100,  p.  318.) 
Benjamin  Goodhue  of  Salem  to  Daniel  Whittemore  of  Danvers,  Mass., 
Second  Division  Lot  No.  124,  containing  "about  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty  acres  of  Land  as  the  same  was  allotted  &  Laid  out  to  sd  Goodhue, 
&  Bounded  as  by  the  plan  of  said  Proprietors  of  Lyndeborough,  vizt : 
South  on  Col°  Pickman's  Lot,  No.  in  West  on  Mr  Blaney's  or  his  as- 
signs, Lot  No.  123.  North  on  Col°  Pickman's  2d  division,  Lot  No.  4,  & 
Easterly  on  sd  Cap1  Goodhue's  other  2d  Division  Lot  No.  125.  .  .  sd 
Goodhue  doth  covenant  with  sd  Daniel  Whittemore  .  .  .  that  he  is 
lawfully  seized  in  fee  of  the  premises  .  .  .  and  that  sd  Goodhue  will 
warrant  and  defend  the  same  .  .  .  from  any  persons  claiming  under 
the  Proprietors  of  Mason's  Grant."  This  deed  bore  the  official  signa- 
ture of  "  Benj*  Lyude,y«.s.  Pea."  and  was  recorded  "  nth  Oct.  1770." 

The  sum  paid  was  "  Two  Hundred  Dollars  or  Sixty  pounds  lawful 
money." 


OLD  DEEDS  485 

FROM  OFFICE   OF  COUNTY  REGISTRAR. 

No.  i.  (1761,  February  5.)  Benjamin  Lynde,  Benjamin  Pickman, 
John  Bickford  &  Benjamin  Goodhue  sold  to  Captain  Jonathan  Cram 
for  his  son  Jacob,  Home  Lot  No.  29,  containing  60  acres ;  bounded  E. 
on  Lot  28,  S.  on  17,  W.  on  common  land  lying  between  Lot  29  and  E. 
line  of  No.  2  township.  Lynde,  Pickman,  Epps,  Bickford  &  Goodhue,  in 
capacity  of  Proprietors'  Committee,  sold  it  for  taxes,  &  Jonathan  Cram 
was  highest  bidder. 

No.  2.  (1767,  Apr.  8.)  Ebenezer  &  Elizabeth  Coston  to  James  Bout- 
well  of  Amherst,  130  acres,  more  or  less,  Lot  No.  57,  bounded  E.  on  Lot 
No.  127  ;  W.  on  Lot  No.  58 ;  N.  on  Lot  No.  70  ;  S.  on  Lot  No.  56. 

No.  3.  (1771,  March  22.)  James  Hutchinson  to  John  Bradford  of  Am- 
herst, Home  Lot  No.  18,  bounded  N.  on  Home  Lot  No.  28 ;  S.  on  Home 
Lot  No.  5  ;  E.  on  Home  Lot  No.  19  ;  &  W.  on  Home  Lot  No.  17. 

No.  4.  (1772,  March  9.)  Melchizedeck  Boffee,  for  100  £,  Lot  No.  68,  in 
Second  Division,  to  Thomas  Boffee  ;  Beginning  at  the  west  side  of  the 
road  leading  from  John  Kidder's  through  said  Lot  to  Deacon  Benjamin 
Cram's,  &c.  (Benjamin  Cram  is  said  to  have  lived  on  the  place  of  the 
late  Dana  B.  Sargent,  now  the  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Percy  Putnam.) 

No.  5.  (1773,  August  14.)  John  Johnson  &  Adam  Johnson  to  James 
Boutwell,  Home  Lot  No.  58,  bounded  N.  on  common  land ;  E.  on  land  of 
Jacob  Wellman ;  S.  on  land  of  Wm.  Carson  ;  W.  on  land  of Ross. 

No.  6.  (1774,  July  30.)  Andrew  Fuller  &  Mary  of  Lyndeborough  to 
Philip  Besom  of  Marblehead,  Mass.,  Second  Division  Lot  No.  51,  of  130 
acres,  bounded  N.  on  2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  62  ;  E-  on  2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  52 ; 
S.  on  2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  48 ;  W.  on  2nd  Div.  Lot  No.  50. 

No.  7.  (1775.)  Jesse  Putnam  of  Lyndeborough,  to  Philip  Besom  of 
Marblehead,  Mass.,  in  consideration  of  50^",  2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  49,  of  130 
acres. 

No.  8.  (1777,  April  14.)  John  Rowe  deeded  to  Thomas  Boffee  for  QO£, 
a  part  of  Lot  No.  60,  in  2nd  Div.  containing  30  acres  more  or  less. 

No.  9.  (1781,  March  14.)  Benjamin  Cram  to  John  Boffee  part  of  Lots 
No.  59  &  54,  beginning  at  N.  W.  corner  of  No.  59,  &c. 

No.  10.  (1794,  October  3.)  Sewall  Goodridge  to  Wm.  Blaney,  land  ad- 
joining Wilton  N.  Line,  running  W.  to  the  S.  E.  corner  of  No.  6;  thence 
N.  on  east  line  of  No.  6,  to  the  S.  W.  corner  of  land  of  Jonathan  Cham- 
berlain Jr.;  then  E.  on  Chamberlain's  land  &  South  line,  &c. 

No.  it.  (1796,  September  20.)  Benjamin  Lewis  of  Milford,  to  John 
Besom  of  Lyndeborough,  13  acres  more  or  less,  bounded  by  the  N.  line  of 
Aaron  Putnam's  lot,  &c. 

No.  12.  (1770,  February  20,  Vol.  7,  p.  44.)  Melchizedeck  Boffee  to 
John  Rowe  65  acres  of  Lot  No.  60 ;  consideration  50  dollars. 

No.  13.  (1770,  August  13,  Vol.  2,  p.  387.)  James  Andrews  of  Boxford, 
Mass.,  &  Sewall  Goodridge,  Clerk,  of  Lyndeborough,  grant  to  Adam 
Johnson  of  Lyndeborough,  Home  Lot  No.  62,  bounded  as  follows,  N. 
by  common  land ;  W.  on  Solomon  Cram ;  S.  on  Widow  Carleton,  &  E. 
on  Capt.  Goodhue  ;  estimated  to  contain  60  acres  more  or  less,  consider- 
ation 14^",  L.  M. 


486  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

No.  14.  (1770,  August  i,  Vol.  5,  155.)  Sold  Home  Lot  62,  &  and.  Div. 
Lots  No.  48  &  49 ;  consideration  20^",  L.  M.  See  the  preceding  record. 

No.  15.  (1770,  August  29,  Vol.  7,  125.)  James  Andrews  of  Boxford, 
Mass.,  &  Sewall  Goodridge  of  Lyndeborough  to  Benjamin  Jones  of  Am- 
herst,  in  consideration  of  38^",  133.,  4d.,  L-  M.,  Lot.  No.  49,  2nd.  Div.  con- 
taining 130  acres,  bounded  S.  on  land  of  Robert  Hooper,  W.  on  Proprie- 
tor's land,  N.  on  land  of  Ephraim  Putnam,  E.  on  land  of  David  Carleton. 

No.  16.  (1770,  Vol.  5,  155.)  Powers  to  Goodridge  in  consideration  of 
100^,  Sterling,  part  of  Lot.  No.  86,  2nd.  Div.  containing  62^  acres. 

No.  17.  (1771,  Vol.  2,  p.  423.)  James  Andrews  of  Boxford,  Mass.,  to 
John  Savage  of  Marblehead,  Mass.,  in  consideration  of  io6;£,  133.,  4d.» 
Lot  No.  98,  2nd.  Div.  containing  130  acres;  bounded  S.  on  Col.  Pick  man 
No.  83,  W.  on  No.  99,  N.  on  No.  101,  Stephenson;  &  E-  on  No.  97. 

No.  18.  (1771,  Dec.  30,  Vol.  10,  168.)  Jonathan  Chamberlain  Jr.,  to 
Samuel  Chamberlain,  part  of  Lot  No.  32,  2nd.  Div.,  containing  60  acres, 
in  consideration  of  26^",  133.,  8d. 

No.  19.  (1772,  January  10,  Vol.  7,  43.)  Josiah  Abbot  to  Andrew 
Fuller,  Esq.,  part  of  2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  86,  containing  six  acres,  for  i£. 

No.  20.  (1772,  May  6,  Vol.  2,  237.)  Joseph  Blaney  of  Salem,  Mass.,  in 
consideration  of  40 ;£  deeded  to  Thomas  Pearson,  first  division  Lot  No.  3, 
bounded  W.  on  No.  4,  N.  on  No.  20 ;  E.  on  No.  2 ;  &  S.  on  common  land, 
or  town  line. 

No.  21.  (1775,  Decembers,  v°l-  loi  l6o-)  Josiah  Abbott,  Blacksmith, 
in  consideration  of  90^",  L-  M.  deeds  to  pieces  of  land  in  Lyndeborough, 
the  one,  beginning  at  the  S.  W.  corner  of  land  that  he  lives  on,  which  is 
the  N.  W.  corner  of  David  Stratton's  land,  &  runs  82  rod  N.  on  Moses 
Stiles'  E.  line ;  thence  E.  2  degrees  N.  on  Josiah  Abbot's  land  50  rod  ; 
thence  N.  n  degs.  E.  on  Abbot's  land,  10  rod  to  a  stake  &  stones  by  the 
road ;  thence  Eastwardly  by  the  S.  side  of  the  road  to  Kidder's  W.  line ; 
thence  S.  on  that  line  92  rod  ;  thence  W.  87  rod,  by  land  of  David 
Stratton,  being  part  of  Lots  77  &  78,  in  the  2nd.  Div.,  to  contain  47 
acres  more  or  less. 

No.  22  &  23,  (1783  &  1785,  Vol.  14,  355 — 357.)  John  Rowe  deeded  to 
Jonathan  Chamberlain  Jr.  50  acres  in  1783 ;  and  deeded  to  Ephraim 
Bixby  of  Westford,  Mass.,  Apr.  6,  1785,  Eighty  acres,  adjoining  lands  of 
Chamberlain  &  Philip  Besom,  being  parts  of  Lot  No.  48  in  2nd.  Division. 

No.  24.  (1781,  May  30.)  Josiah  Bowers  of  Billerica,  Mass.,  deeded  to 
Jonathan  Butler  of  Lyndeborough,  in  consideration  of  $300,  Lot  No.  81, 
in  the  2nd.  Division,  containing  130  acres. 

HEADINGS   OF    DEEDS    IN    COUNTY    RECORDS. 

COLLECTED    BY   DAVID    C.    GRANT. 

No.  i.  (1765,  June  5.)  Benjamin  Pickman  of  Salem,  Mass.,  to  Jere- 
miah Carleton  of  Lyndeborough,  N.  H.,  a  Warrantee  Deed  of  70  acres 
being  Home  Lot  No.  44.  which  he  bought  of  Nathaniel  Putnam. 

No.  2.  (1770,  June  15.)  Adam  Johnson  to  Rachel  Johnson,  Home  Lot 
No.  39. 

No.  3.  (1770,  December  17.)  Josiah  Woodbury  of  Salem,  Mass., 
bought  of  Benjamin  Goodhue  2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  125. 


OLD  DEEDS  487 

No.  4.  (1771,  September  6.)  Robert  Hooper  to  Daniel  Epps  of  Dan- 
vers,  2nd.  Div.  No.  108.  Warrantee  Deed. 

No.  5.  (1770,  July  18,  by  W.  H.  Grant,  Esq.J  Eunice  Carleton,  Execu- 
trix, to  Jeremiah  Carleton  of  Newburyport,  Mass.,  Executrix's  Deed  of 
Home  Lots  43  and  44  in  Lyndeborough,  N.  H.,  with  house,  barn  &c. 
(See  No.  13,  below.) 

No.  6.  Benjamin  Epps  of  Lyndeborough,  N.  H.,  to  Peter  Clark  of 
Lyndeborough,  N.  H.— W.  D. 

No.  7.  (1771,  November  17.)  David  Carleton  sold  to  John  Boffee,  both 
of  Lyndeborough,  2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  48,  6o£.  L.  M. 

No.  8.  (1768,  May  9.)  Sewall  Goodridge  to  Josiah  Abbot,  part  of 
2nd.  Div.  Lots  77  and  78,  a  part  of  the  Gage  Farm.  • 

No.  9.  (1769.)  Ephraim  Powers  to  Josiah  Abbot,  part  of  2nd.  Div. 
Lot  No.  86. 

No.  10.  (1768,  April  19,  Vol.  6,  p.  in.)  Deed  of  Jonathan  Cram, 
Moses  Stiles  and  Phebe  (Cram)  Stiles,  Benjamin  Cram,  Ephraim  Putnam 
and  Sarali  (Cram)  Putnam  to  Jonathan  Chamberlain  for  and  in  consider- 
ation of  supporting  our  brother,  Joseph  Cram,  being  part  of  Lot  No.  41, 
2nd.  Div.  of  lots,  75  acres. 

No.  ii.  (1770,  September  15.)  Benjamin  Lynde  to  James  Andrews, 
2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  98,  containing  130  acres. 

No.  12.  Melchizedeck  Boffee  to  John  Boffee;  Vol.  20,  74;  and  John 
Boffee  to  Melchizedeck  Boffee,  Vol.  24,  p.  231. 

No.  13.  (1766,  July  18.)  Robert  Hooper  of  Marblehead,  Mass.,  to 
Jeremiah  Carleton  of  Lyndeborough,  N.  H.,  Home  Lot  No.  43,  in  con- 
sideration of  his  full  settlement  and  five  shillings.  (Compare  this  with 
No.  5.) 

No.  14.  (1771,  March  22.)  James  Hutchinson  to  John  Bradford  the 
Southeast  end  of  Home  Lot  No.  18,  lying  partly  on  Gun  Hill,  so  called, 
containing  about  15  acres. 

No.  15.  (1773,  December  30.)  Benjamin  Goodhue  to  Nathan  Cram, 
Second  Division  Lot  No.  64,  containing  130  acres. 

No.  16.  (1772,  January  20.  W.  D.)  Benjamin  Lynde  to  John  Brad- 
ford Lot  No.  5.  on  Gun  Hill,  and  bounded  northerly  on  Lot  of  Edward 
Bevins,  Jr.  (See  No.  14,  above.) 

No.  17.  (1770,  August  10.)  Jeremiah  Lee  of  Marblehead,  Mass.,  to 
Melchizedeck  Boffee  of  Lyndeborough.  W.  Deed,  of  Lot  No.  49,  being 
land  which  Joseph  Swett  requested  said  Boffee  to  clear  and  settle,  con- 
taining 60  acres ;  also  40  acres  of  Lot  29,  2nd.  Div.  to  wit,  at  the  westerly 
end  of  same. 

No.  18.  (1770,  Vol.  2,  381.)  Adam  Johnson  from  Sewall  Goodridge, 
Home  Lot  No.  62. 

No.  19.  (1772,  April  ii,  Vol.  2,  p.  430.)  Adam  Johnson  from  Sewall 
Goodridge  ist.  Div.  Lot  No.  58. 

No.  20.  (1767,  February  18,  Vol.  28,  p.  27.)  Benjamin  Lynde  to  John 
Carkin,  husbandman,  in  consideration  of  a  settlement  made  at  Lynde- 
borough, and  five  shillings  L.  M.  grants  Home  Lot  No.  35,  containing  60 


488  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

acres,  and  is  the  lot  on  which  sad  Carkin  has  built  and  lived  7  or  8  years, 
and  lyeth  between  Col.  Pickman's  lot  on  the  E.  and  the  ministry  lot  No. 
34,  on  the  west. 

No.  21.  (17731  Vol.  3,  p.  529.)  William  Lee  of  Francestown,  bought 
of  Pickman  Lot  No.  61,  in  Lyndeborough,  commonly  called  Peal's  Lot. 

No.  22.  (1773  or  '74,  Vol.  7,  36.)  William  Lee  bought  of  William 
Pickman. 

No.  23.     (1774,  Vol.  2,  538.)     William  Lee  to  Daniel  Clark,  Lot.  No.  36- 

No.  24.     (Vol.  2,  249.)     Osgood  Carleton  from  David  Badger. 

No.  25.     (Vol.  2,  259.)     Osgood  Carleton  from  Benjamin  Cram. 

No.  26.  (1779,  Vol.  8,  24.)  Mr.  Lee  sold  to  James  Boutwell,  part  of 
Lot  66,  2nd.  Div. 

No.  27.  (1779,  April  20.)  William  Lee  and  Sarah  his  wife,  to  Nathan 
Parsons.  W.  D.  of  Lot  No.  66,  2nd.  Division. 

No.  28.  (1795,  March  30,  Vol.  35,  p.  464.)  John  Grant  bought  of  John 
Blaisdell  in  1795,  and  on  the  30.  of  March  1795,  bought  of  Samuel 
Parker  i-i4th  part  of  all  the  common  lands. 

DEEDS  OF   DAVID  PUTNAM. 

No.  29.  (1788,  May  29,  Vol.  20,  p.  336.)  Thomas  Boffee,  to  Amos 
Whittemore  and  David  Putnam,  all  gentlemen,  and  of  Lyndeborough,  in 
consideration  of  174^.  L.  M.,  a  tract  of  land  containing  about  150  acres, 
a  part  of  2nd.  Div.  Lots  No.  68,  59  and  60.  (Vol.  20,  p.  337.)  The  same 
premises,  on  same  date  deeded  by  John  Gowen,  of  Wilmington,  Mass., 
to  Thomas  Boffee. 

No.  30.  (1785,  May  2,  Vol.  20,  p.  100.)  Aaron  Putnam  to  David  Put- 
nam in  consideration  of  250^.  parts  of  2nd.  Div.  Lots  No.  41  and  44. 

No.  31.  (1775,  March  14,  Vol.  6,  116.)  Deacon  Ephraim  Putnam  to 
David  Putnam  in  consideration  of  6o£.  L.  M.  2nd  Div.  Lot  No.  50,  con- 
taining 130  acres  more  or  less.  Sworn  to  before  Andrew  Fuller.  J.  P. 

No.  32.  (1786,  January  7,  Vol.  20,  p.  101.  Nathan  Hasseltine  to  David 
Putnam  in  consideration  of  $£.  a  tract  of  about  3  acres,  being  a  part  of 
2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  30. 

No.  33.  (1787,  September  5,  Vol.  20,  p.  102.)  John  Putnam  of 
Lyndeborough  to  David  Putnam  in  consideration  of  12 £  a  tract  of  land 
being  a  part  of  Lot  No.  41  in  the  2nd.  Division. 

No.  34.  (1789,  February  9,  Vol.  24,  p.  99.)  John  Putnam  to  David 
Putnam  in  consideration  of  100^".  a  part  of  Lots  No.  41  and  44,  2nd 
Division. 

No.  35.  (1789,  October  30,  Vol.  24,  p.  96.)  Stephen  Goodhue  of 
Salem,  Mass.,  to  David  Putnam  of  Lyndeborough,  in  consideration  of 
45/.  L.  M.  all  that  part  of  2nd.  Div.  Lot  No.  43,  which  our  late  father, 
Benjamin  Goodhue,  did  not  sell  to  Moses  Stiles. 

No.  36.  (1813,  August  30.)  David  Putnam  to  David  Putnam,  Jr.,  in 
consideration  of  Eight  Hundred  Dollars,  three  tracts  of  land  containing 
60  acres,  duly  described.  Attested  and  acknowledged,  Jan.  5th,  1814,  in 
presence  of  Daniel  Putnam,  Justice  of  Peace. 


OLD  DEEDS  489 

No.  37.  (1818,  December  i,  Vol.  i,  124,  p.  423.)  David  Putnam,  Jr.,  to 
David  Putnam,  Mortgage  Deed,  &c. 

This  was  in  consideration  of  property  of  his  parents  valued  at  one 
thousand  Dollars  deeded  to  him  on  certain  conditions  which  he  accepted 
and  pledged  himself  to  fulfill,  involving  their  support  during  their 
natural  life.  The  father  died  within  two  years,  and  the  mother  did  not 
survive  very  long. 

No.  38.  (1815,  May  19,  Vol.  107,  p.  592.)  Ephraim  Putnam  Jr.  of 
Lyndeborough,  to  David  Putnam  Jr.,  in  consideration  of  $75,  a  tract  of 
land  48  by  50  rods  of  Lot  No.  45,  in  the  Second  division. 

No.  39.  (1816,  November  12,  Vol.  119,  p.  571.)  Ephraim  Putnam  Jr. 
of  Lyndeborough,  to  David  Putnam,  Jr.,  of  Lyndeborough,  in  consider- 
ation of  $35,  a  tract  of  land  on  the  east  side  of  second  division  lot  No.  45, 
adjoining  on  the  north  the  land  sold  to  him  as  by  preceding  deed  38, 
forty-eight  rods  by  twenty- seven. 

No.  40.  (1818,  August  22,  Vol.  121,  p.  51.)  Ephraim  Putnam  Jr. 
to  David  Putnam  Jr.,  both  of  Lyndeborough,  a  tract  of  land  48  rods  wide 
extending  north  about  65  rods,  being  the  northeasterly  part  of  second 
division  lot  No.  45,  consideration  $60. 

No.  41.  (1820,  March  24,  Vol.  126,  p.  408.)  Timothy  Putnam  to  David 
Putnam  Jr.,  both  of  Lyndeborough,  portions  of  second  division  lots  No.  41 
and  44,  situated  mainly  west  of  the  road  leading  from  Daniel  Putnam's  to 
the  meeting-house.  Consideration  $1000.  Witnesses  Abigail  Putnam, 
Sarah  Clark. 

(Mrs.  'Richard's  Papers) 

No.  42.  (1820,  August  12,  Vol.  128,  p.  533.)  Jonathan  and  Sarah 
(Putnam)  Clark  of  Lyndeborough,  in  consideration  of  $100,  paid  by 
Abigail  Putnam,  quit-claim  to  her  &c.  all  right  and  title  to  "property 
which  our  honored  father,  David  Putnam,  died  possest  of,"  (viz.)  all  our 
right  to  the  saw  and  grist  mills,  together  with  about  three  acres  of  land 
adjoining  said  grist  mill  —  bounded  as  follows  :  South  by  the  stream  on 
which  said  mill  stands  ;  west,  by  land  of  Pierce  and  Marshall  north,  by 
land  of  David  Putnam  ;  east,  by  land  of  Jonathan  Town. 
Mrs.  E.  H.  Putnam's  papers. 

No.  43.  (July  25,  1838,  Vol.  198,  p.  i.)  John  Carlton  of  Lyndeborough 
to  Mariah  Putnam  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  part  of  second  division  lot  No.  41, 
estimated  about  70  acres,  together  with  the  buildings  thereon,  consider- 
ation $1500. 

This  deed  states  that  John  F.  Holt  owned  land  once  the  property  of 
Daniel  Chamberlain  ;  that  Henry  Cram's  land  adjoined  the  graveyard  ; 
that  Joshua  Sargent's  land  was  north  from  the  corner  of  Harvey  Holt's 
land  ;  and  that  there  were  two  mill  privileges  in  the  tract,  one  improved 
by  Uriah  Cram  and  Israel  Putnam,  and  the  other  deeded  to  Henry  and 
James  Cram. 

The  above  deed  was  witnessed  by  Israel  Fuller,  Jr.,  and  Lewis  Cram  ; 
it  was  signed  by  John  Carlton  and  Miriam,  wife  of  John  Carlton. 


CHAPTER   XXIX. 
HOLES  AND  OLD  BUILDING  SITES. 

NORTH    LYNDEBOROUGH,    CENTRE,    JOHNSON'S    CORNER,    ETC., 
BY   J.    A.    WOODWARD. 

Directly  opposite  the  house  of  J.  H.  Goodrich  at  North 
L,yndeborough  was  the  pottery  of  Peter  Clark  and  John  South- 
wick. 

A  little  to  the  north  of  this  is  the  cellar-hole  of  the  South- 
wick  house. 

In  the  southwest  corner  of  the  same  field  was  a  blacksmith 
shop  kept  by  one,  Peabody. 

A  little  to  the  east  of  this  site  is  the  cellar-hole  of  Peabody 's 
house. 

On  the  road  a  little  to  the  east  of  the  Peabody  cellar-hole  is 
the  site  of  the  Union  L,ecture  house. 

Still  farther  east  is  the  cellar-hole  where  Dea.  Peter  Clark's 
house  stood.  This  is  on  the  town  line. 

Opposite  the  house  of  John  H.  Goodrich  was  once  a  tan-yard 
owned  by  Paul  Atwood. 

A  little  to  the  south  of  this  tan-yard  was  the  blacksmith  shop 
of  Jonathan  Thayer. 

James  McCauley  once  occupied  a  house  on  the  south  end  of 
John  H.  Goodrich's  buildings.  This  house  was  bought  by 
Phineas  C.  Kidder  and  is  now  the  house  owned  by  Frank 
Gardner. 

Back  of  John  H.  Goodrich's  house  was  once  a  potash  shop 
owned  by  Benjamin  Goodrich. 

North  of  John  H.  Goodrich's,  on  the  turnpike,  was  the  house 
of  Daniel  Holmes. 

West  of  the  Holmes  house  was  the  house  of  Jotham  Searles. 

Near  the  house  of  Horace  D.  Gage  is  the  cellar-hole  of  the 
house  of  Isaiah  Parker. 

East  of  the  cemetery  at  North  L,yndeborough  is  the  cellar- 
hole  of  the  house  of  Ruth  Senter. 

On  land  of  ~L,evi  P.  Bailey  is  the  cellar-hole  of  Benjamin  Sen- 
ter's  house. 

On  land  of  D.  B.  Whittemore,  near  the  old  road  by  Harry 
Richardson's,  is  the  cellar-hole  of  the  house  of  Jotham  Wilkins. 


OLD  CELLAR  HOLES  491 

On  the  road  from  L,.  P.  Bailey's  to  the  centre  was  a  mill,  on 
Cold  Brook,  owned  by  Capt.  Ebenezer  Flint. 

On  the  hill  west  of  the  schoolhouse  in  District  No.  4  was  a 
log-house.  This  hill  now  goes  by  the  name  of  L,og-House  hill. 

Opposite  Irwin  D.  Wilder's  barn  was  once  the  house  of 
Thomas  Boardman. 

On  top  of  the  hill  west  of  Irwin  D.  Wilder's  was  the  black- 
smith shop  of  Charles  Whitmarsh.  His  house  stood  opposite. 
This  was  moved  later  to  where  the  house  of  D.  E.  Proctor 
now  is. 

South  of  the  old  Proctor  place  is  the  cellar-hole  of  the  house 
of  John  Proctor.  This  is  on  the  side  of  the  mountain,  and  he 
is  supposed  to  have  been  the  first  settler  there. 

A  cellar-hole  near  where  the  John  Proctor  house  stood  is 
where  Seth  Allen  once  lived. 

On  the  Needham  place  is  the  cellar-hole  of  the  house  of  Ben- 
jamin Bullock. 

Near  where  D.  B.  Whittemore  lives  was  the  house  of  Jona- 
than Whittemore. 

Near  the  No.  8  schoolhouse  was  a  house  once  occupied  by 
the  workmen  of  Benjamin  Jones.  To  the  west  of  No.  8  school- 
house  up  the  hill  was  the  Oliver  Whiting  farm  ;  the  buildings 
now  entirely  removed. 

Still  farther  west  was  the  Dea.  Samuel  Houston  place.  The 
building  site  is  marked  by  two  rows  of  Lombardy  poplars,  some 
of  them  of  great  age. 

South  of  this  place  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  is  the  old  Reu- 
ben Button  homestead.  Reuben's  son  Benjamin  also  lived 
there.  Benjamin's  widow  was  the  last  occupant,  and  the  build- 
ings were  torn  down  soon  after  she  left. 

East  of  the  Button  place  is  the  old  Woodward  homestead. 
Baniel  Woodward  was  there  as  early  as  1800,  and  at  that  time 
there  was  an  old  house  on  the  side  of  the  road  opposite  where 
he  built  the  brick  house.  Sumner  French  was  the  last  occu- 
pant. House  burned. 

A  few  rods  east  of  the  Woodward  place  was  where  Ira  Hous- 
ton lived.  It  was  from  here  that  he  emigrated  to  the  West. 

North  of  the  Ira  Houston  place,  in  a  pasture,  is  the  site  of 
the  house  where  Capt.  L,evi  Spaulding  of  Revolutionary  fame 
lived. 

Between  the  Hill  place  and  B.  B.  Whittemore's  was  the  house 
of  Samuel  Whittemore. 


492  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Just  west  of  Harry  Richardson's  is  a  cellar-hole,  owner  un- 
known. Robert  B.  Osgood  lived  there  in  1860. 

Not  many  rods  north  of  Frank  B.  Tay's  is  the  site  of  the  old 
District  No.  i  schoolhouse.  It  was  on  the  east  side  of  the  road. 

South  of  where  Charles  D.  Riley  lives  was  a  cellar-hole  ;  owner 
unknown.  Grannie  McMaster  is  said  to  have  last  occupied  the 
premises. 

There  is  a  cellar-hole  in  Everett  Hutchinson's  pasture ;  former 
owner  unknown. 

Cellar-hole  on  George  W.  Parker's  place.  Warren  Damon 
occupied  the  premises  once.  House  burned. 

Cellar-hole  in  the  Fitch  pasture.  Mollie  Curtis  lived  in  the 
house  that  stood  there. 

Cellar-hole  of  the  house  of  Joseph  Melendy.  House  burned 
July  4,  1879. 

There  is  a  cellar-hole  on  land  of  Harvey  Perham  heirs.  The 
house  was  once  occupied  by  lizzie  Bevins. 

Cellar-hole  on  the  place  known  as  the  "  Creesy  "  place,  near 
H.  H.  Joslin's. 

Cellar-hole  in  the  Cummings'  pasture  on  Winn  mountain. 
Occupants  unknown.  There  is  a  tradition  that  one  of  them 
found  money  in  a  tea-kettle  secreted  on  the  premises,  and  appro- 
priating it,  left  for  parts  unknown. 

Cellar  hole  on  the  road  to  Greenfield,  past  the  Pinnacle  house. 
Known  as  the  Joslin  place.  Oscar  Joslin  last  occupant. 

Cellar-hole  on  land  of  E.  C.  Curtis,  near  the  foot  of  the  hill, 
on  what  was  an  old  road  from  where  he  lives  to  the  Johnson 
Corner  road. 

Cellar-hole  on  the  road  south  of  where  Wm.  Richardson  lived. 
Eli  Curtis  lived  there. 

Cellar-hole  on  the  road  past  Luther  Cram's  place,  known  as 
the  Ellingwood  place. 

Cellar-hole  on  the  road  from  Foster  Woodward's  corner  to  the 
Annie  Fish  place.  Charles  P.  Cummings  last  occupant.  Known 
as  the  Israel  Cram  place. 

On  same  road,  cellar-hole  on  land  of  Andy  Holt.  Stiles  last 
occupant. 

Cellar-hole  on  Rose  mountain,  where  James  Grant  lived. 
David  C.  Grant  born  there. 

Cellar-hole  on  Rose  mountain,  where  Abram  Rose  settled. 

About  twenty  rods  south  of  the  David  Holt  place  was  where 
David  Stratton  built  a  house,  said  to  have  been  the  seventh 


OLD  CELLAR  HOLES  493 

framed  house  built  in  town.  This  house  was  moved  to  near 
where  the  present  buildings  stand,  and  many  years  ago  was 
torn  down. 

Oliver  Holt  built  a  house  in  what  is  now  land  of  E.G.  Her- 
rick's.  Known  as  the  Holt  field.  It  stood  near  the  brook. 

Cellar-hole  on  road  from  the  Ryerson  place  to  No.  5  school- 
house,  where  Samuel  Hodgeman  lived  and  where  he  was  killed 
by  lightning.  He  was  the  last  occupant. 

Cellar-hole  south  of  the  Hodgeman  place.  A  man  named 
Stiles  once  lived  there. 

Cellar-hole  about  20  rods  north  of  Hodgeman 's  place.  Upton 
said  to  have  lived  there. 

Foster  Woodward  was  the  last  occupant  of  a  house  that  stood 
near  where  Joseph  Blanchard's  barn  stands.  Samuel  Wood- 
ward lived  near  by.  The  railroad  passed  through  the  site. 

West  of  where  Brandy  Brook  crosses  the  road  to  the  Centre 
was  once  a  dwelling.  Ruins  of  the  old  stone  fire-place  still  to 
be  found.  The  builder  or  occupants  are  unknown.  This  is  on 
land  of  Joseph  Blanchard.  On  land  of  Moses  Fuller,  between 
Rose  Mountain  and  the  Pinnacle,  is  the  site  of  a  set  of  build- 
ings. One  or  two  old  apple  trees  still  stand  there.  A  man 
named  Hardy  once  lived  there.  Further  to  the  north  on  the 
old  road  or  bridle-path  to  the  Button  place  over  Rose  Mountain 
is  the  site  of  the  Starrett  place.  The  Rose  place,  the  Grant 
place  and  the  two  places  just  mentioned  are  all  that  can  be 
traced  of  the  farms  on  Rose  Mountain.  The  situation  of  all 
these  farms  is  about  as  bleak  as  any  that  can  be  found  in  town. 
It  would  be  interesting  to  know  just  why  these  settlers  chose 
such  exposed  places  for  homes. 

On  the  Forest  road  northeast  of  Winn  Mountain  is  the  cellar- 
hole  where  John  Woodward  settled.  Jotham  Stephenson  after- 
ward lived  there,  last  occupant  unknown. 

On  Woodward  hill,  so  called,  Joseph  Putnam  lived  and  the 
old  cellar-hole  may  still  be  seen. 

Further  along  this  road  on  Woodward  hill  was  where  Samuel 
Woodward  lived  and  where  his  children  were  born.  The  cellar- 
hole  may  still  be  seen.  North  of  Samuel  Woodward's  place 
was  the  land  of  Eleazer  Woodward,  on  which  were  buildings. 
He  never  lived  there  but  used  to  cut  the  hay  on  the  place,  and 
send  some  of  his  boys  there  to  feed  it  out  in  the  winter  to  stock 
kept  there,  the  boys  boarding  themselves.  Israel  Woodward 
used  to  say  that  the  wolves  used  to  come  around  nights  and 


494  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

howl,  and  sometimes  they  were  obliged  to  sit  up  all  night  to 
protect  the  sheep. 

In  the  Johnson  corner  district,  on  the  road  to  Purgatory  falls, 
is  the  cellar-hole  where  Mark  Morgan  had  a  house. 

Further  on  is  the  cellar-hole  where  the  Towns  family  lived, 
father  and  son. 

Still  farther  to  the  east  is  a  cellar-hole  where  a  man  named 
Curtis  lived.  Said  to  be  no  relation  to  the  Curtis  families  in 
town  at  present. 

On  the  road  to  New  Boston,  in  what  was  a  part  of  Lynde- 
borough  since  set  off  into  Mont  Vernon,  is  the  cellar-hole 
where  Amos  Pearsons  lived. 

Next  north  is  the  cellar-hole  where  John  Stearns,  father  of 
Daniel,  Seth  and  John,  lived. 

Further  on  is  the  cellar-hole  where  Mr.  Chamberlain  lived. 

Next  is  the  cellar-hole  where  Ephraim  Kidder  lived. 

Next  is  the  site  of  the  John  Rand  house. 

Next  is  the  site  of  the  Edgar  Rand  house. 

And  last  is  the  cellar-hole  where  Oliver  Senter  lived. 

On  the  old  road  towards  Milford  is  the  cellar-hole  where  John 
Carson  lived. 

Still  farther  southeast  is  the  cellar-hole  where  L,evi  Curtis 
lived. 

In  that  section  of  the  town  is  a  cellar-hole  in  what  is  called 
the  Buxton  pasture.  Occupant  unknown. 

Between  the  Haggett  place  and  the  brook  is  the  cellar-hole 
where  David  Butterfield  had  a  house. 

West  of  the  Rose  place  is  the  site  of  the  house  where  James 
Marshall  lived.  There  was  formerly  a  road  running  west  from 
the  Rose  place  to  the  present  South  L,yndeborough  road.  The 
Marshall  place  was  on  this  road. 

Further  west  was  the  site  of  the  William  Abbott  house. 

At  the  foot  of  the  hill  west  of  the  Boutwell  place  is  a  cellar- 
hole.  Who  first  built  there  is  unknown.  Adoniram  Wood- 
ward, David  Cram  and  many  other  families  once  lived  there. 


OLD  CELLAR  HOLES  495 

OLD    CELLARS    NEAR    SOUTH    LYNDEBOROUGH, 
BY    REV.    D.    DONOVAN. 

A  citizen  well  acquainted  with  all  parts  of  the  town  has  often 
said  that  there  are,  it  seems  to  him,  more  old  cellar-holes  in  the 
town  than  there  are  inhabited  dwellings.  Be  that  as  it  may, 
we  find  several  such  ruins  near  South  Lyndeborough,  which 
invite  a  passing  notice. 

1.  On  the  farm  once  owned  by   Ephraim   Putnam,  the  first 
of  that  name  in  town,  was  an  old  cellar,  of  which  the  oldest 
citizens  of  three  generations  ago  could  give  no  satisfactory  ac- 
count.    David  Putnam,  Jr.,  who  was   about  eighty  years  old 
when  he  died,  knew  nothing  of  its  origin  or  owner.  It  was  then 
on  Dea.  John  Hartshorn's  land  about  thirty  rods  south  of  his 
house.     In  cultivating  the  field  the  cellar  has  been  filled  up, 
and  no  trace  of  it  is  now  visible,  though  it  is  well  remembered. 

2.  The  old  cellar  of  Ephraim  Putnam's  house,  last  occupied 
by  Capt.  Israel  Putnam,  is  on  land  now  owned   by  Mrs.  E.  H. 
Putnam,  at  the  corner  of  the  field,  nearly  opposite  the  summer 
cottage  of  Mr.  Lawrence  of  Cambridge,  Mass.     The  house  which 
stood  over  this  cellar  was  torn  down  July  23,  1883.     Its  lower 
story  was  found  to  be  lined  with  brick  between  the  boards  and 
the  lathing.     The  brick  were  doubtless  used  in  this  way  as  a 
defense  against  the  bullets  of  hostile  savages  in  colonial  days. 
The  house  was  two  stories  high  in  front,   while  the  rear  roof 
was  like  that  of  a  shed,  leaving  the  back  of  the  house  but  one 
story,  and  sometimes  low  at  that.     Mr.  A.  S.  Conant,  the  car- 
penter who  took  down  the  frame,  vouches  for  the  brick  lining. 

3.  There  is  at  present  no  indication  of  a  cellar  on  the  spot, 
where,  according  to  the   Wilton  History,*  Nathan  Hesselton, 
Jr.,  was  born.     The  buildings  of  the  glass  factory  covered  the 
spot,  as  vouched  for  by  the  late  David  Putnam. 

4.  It  would  be  a  satisfaction  if  we  could  as  readily  name  his 
neighbor,  who  lived  about  thirty  rods  to  the  southwest.     In  the 
pasture  now  owned  by  H.    E.    Emery  is  a  cellar   concerning 
which  little  more  can  be  learned  than  its  existence.     It  was 
east  of  the  road  which  led  from  the  saw-mill  of  Nathaniel  Put- 
nam to  the  original  center  of  the  town.     The  lane  which  led  to 
this  place  crossed  the  Mill  Brook  by  a  bridge  whose  abutments 
are  still  in  a  good  state  of  preservation.     One  tradition  is  that  a 
man  named  Wilkins  lived  there.     Southeast  of  this  cellar  are 

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496  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

two  circular  spaces  whose  rims  are  slightly  elevated  above  the 
common  level.*  These  circles  show  that  some  one  used  mattock 
or  spade  in  the  days  of  their  construction.  The  circles  are 
about  30  feet  in  diameter.  The  lot  in  which  these  remains  are 
found  was  Second  Division  lot  No.  30,  and  belonged  to  the 
original  proprietor,  Joseph  Blaney ;  and  a  part  of  this  lot  was 
sold  to  Hesselton.  (See  Deeds  of  David  Putnam,  No.  32.) 

5.  On  the  old  road  to  Wilton  Center,  which  after  crossing 
the   Bradford   bridge,    west  of    South    Lyndeborough,   turned 
abruptly  to  the  left,  passing  through  land  now  owned  by  W.  N. 
Cheever,    lived   a   few   families  who   cannot  well   be   ignored. 
About  forty  rods  southwest  of  the  abrupt  turn  above  mentioned 
is  an  old  cellar  which  might  easily  escape  notice,  if  not  specially 
pointed  out.     This  marks  the  spot  where  lived  William  Abbott, 
grandfather  of  our  townsman,  W.  H.  Abbott,  and  also,  maternal 
grandfather  of  Mr.  John  C.  Carkin. 

6.  Following  this  road  nearly  a  south  course,  up  a  very  steep 
hill,  a  person  comes  to  the  line  fence  between  William  Blaney 
and  Jonathan   Chamberlain,  Jr.,  which   line  the   road   follows 
over  into  Wilton.     On  the  east  side  of  this  road  on  a  spot  com- 
manding a  fine  view  east  and  northeast,  a  century  ago  stood  the 
dwelling  of   Capt.  William   Blaney.     The  old  apple  trees  and 
the  walls  of  his  fields  and  garden  and  the  ruins  of  the  cellar  all 
indicate  a  once  finely  cultivated  farm.     His  title  of  captain  is 
said  to  have  come  from  following  the  sea. 

7.  Westward   from  this   site,  stood  the   home  of  Jonathan 
Chamberlain,  Jr.;  and  the  ruins  of  the  cellar  are  on  an  elevation 
from  which  he  could  look  across  a  little  valley  to  the  home  of 
his  father-in-law,  Benjamin  Cram,  Jr.,  the  place  now  occupied 
by  Mr.  Frank  Winn. 

8.  Turning  southwest  from  the  residence  of  Frank  Winn  a 
road  down  the  little  valley  about  an  eighth  of  a  mile  comes  to 
the  old  cellar  on  the  south  side  of  the  road,  over  which  was  the 
house  of  Mr.  Jacob  Woodward,  owned  recently  by  his  son  Jacob 
Newton  Woodward. 

9.  West  of  this  last  mentioned  cellar,  is  that  of  Jacob  Das- 
comb,  once  prominent  in  town  affairs,  having  served  four  years 
as  town  clerk,  1798  to  1802,  and  said  to  have  been  a  Revolu- 
tionary soldier  of  the  Massachusetts  line.     He  was   father-in- 
law  of  Col.  Timothy  Putnam. 

10.     On  the  old  road,  a  short  distance  east  of  Mr.  Rufus  Cham- 

*  A  suggestion  is  that  these  may  have  been  coal  pits,  where  charcoal  was  burned. 


OLD  CELLAR  HOLES  497 

berlain's  is  the  old  cellar  of  Mr.  Amos  Wilkins's  house.  It  is 
near  the  northwest  corner  of  land  now  owned  by  Mr.  W.  N. 
Cheever. 

11.  Still  farther  east  on  the  same  road,  and  also  on  land  of 
the  same  owner,  is  the  cellar  of  Thomas  Lakin's  house.     It  is 
on  the  south  side  of  the  road. 

12.  About  as  far  east  from  the  Thomas  Lakin  cellar  as  that  is 
from  Amos  Wilkins's,  is  the  cellar  of  Moses  Stiles,  one  of  the 
very   early   settlers.     He   married    Phebe   Cram,  the  sister  of 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  Jonathan  Chamberlain,  Sr.     The  cellar  is  on 
the  land  of  Mr.  Rufus  Chamberlain,  and  owned  perhaps  by  his 
ancestor,  Jonathan,  in  Moses  Stiles'  day.     The  cellar  is  on  the 
north  side  of  the  old  road,  between  it  and  the  road  which  passes 
the  cemetery.     Mrs.  Stiles  was  a  daughter  of  John  Cram,  the 
first  settler. 

13.  As  far  east  of  the   Stiles  place   as  the  latter  is  of  the 
Thomas  L,akin  place  is  the  cellar  of  Abel  L,akin  a  brother  of 
Thomas.     It  was  in  Abel's   barn,  which  caught  fire  while  he 
was  attending  an  ordination  in  Mont  Vernon,  in  1809,  that  his 
two  children  and  one  of  his  brother's  perished  in   the  flames. 
The  farm  now  is  owned  by  Mr.  W.  H.  Abbott. 

14.  In  Emery  Holt's  pasture  sixty  rods  or  more  southeast  of 
his  house  is  evidently  a  very  old  cellar.     None  of  our  citizens 
have  now  any  knowledge  of  its  builder. 

15.  There  is  also  in  what  is  called  the  Burton  pasture,  on  the 
west  side  of  the   Wilton   road,    a   very   ancient    cellar.     The 
person  who  lived  there  is  unknown  to  the  present  generation, 
though  the  land  on  which  it  stands  is  now  Mr.  W.  A.  Burton's, 
and  has  been  Burton  property  for  several  generations. 


CHAPTER  XXX. 
CEMETERIES. 

BY   J.    A.    WOODWARD. 

In  the  absence  of  all  records,  it  would  be  hard  to  deter- 
mine which  of  the  burial  places  in  town  was  the  first.  From 
the  fact  that  the  first  settlements  in  Salein-Canada  were  made 
on  and  near  Putnam  Hill,  one  would  be  led  to  infer  that  the 
South  cemetery  was  most  likely  the  first  to  be  laid  out.  On  the 
knoll  where  the  pine  trees  stand  in  this  yard  is  the  grave  of 
Sarah,  wife  of  Lieut.  Thomas  Boffee,  and  the  headstone  bearing 
the  date  of  Sept.  9,  1772. 

In  the  cemetery  at  Johnson's  Corner  is  the  grave  of  Aaron 
Carkin,  the  headstone  giving  the  date  of  his  death  as  Nov.  19, 
1777.  In  the  cemetery  at  the  "Centre  "  is  the  grave  of  George 
Gould,  the  date  of  whose  death  is  Apr.  29,  1783. 

These  dates  would  indicate  that  there  was  probably  but  few 
years  difference  in  the  time  of  the  laying  out  of  these  three 
yards.  Tradition  says  that  most  of  the  first  burials  in  town 
were  those  of  children,  the  exposure  and  privations  of  pioneer 
life  making  the  mortality  among  infants  large.  Who  was  the 
first  adult  to  be  buried  in  any  of  the  cemeteries  in  town  is,  to 
the  writer,  unknown,  and  there  are  no  records  and  no  tradi- 
tions to  tell.  John  Badger  was  the  first  within  the  limits  of 
Salem-Canada  without  doubt. 

It  was  not  the  custom  of  those  early  days  to  arrange  the 
burial  places  with  the  ultimate  view  of  beautifying  and  adorn- 
ing them.  Neither  can  it  be  learned  that  any  lots  were  sold, 
each  family  selecting  such  a  lot  as  it  desired. 

The  mountains  and  hills,  and  the  rugged  character  of  the 
land  of  the  town,  made  it  inconvenient  for  the  early  settlers  to 
have  one  central  cemetery,  and  so  the  places  of  sepulture  were 
located  so  as  to  be  convenient  for  the  various  communities.  In 
many  towns  of  the  state  the  cemetery  adjoined  the  church,  and 
the  cemetery  at  the  "  Centre  "  was  probably  located  as  near  the 
church  as  the  nature  of  the  ground  would  permit. 

The  older  headstones  in  all  the  yards  are  of  slate,  a  material 
which  seems  to  withstand  the  corroding  effects  of  weather 
rather  better  than  granite  or  marble,  though  some  of  those  old 


CEMETERIES  499 

headstones  are  so  covered  with  lichens  and  moss,  as  to  make  it 
difficult  to  decipher  the  inscriptions. 

There  are  several  out  of  the  way  places  in  the  town  where 
the  dead  have  been  buried.  One  is  in  the  northwest  corner  of 
the  field  back  of  the  house  of  Moses  C.  Fuller.  Some  of  the 
members  of  the  Chamberlain  family  are  buried  there. 

There  is  a  tradition  that  there  are  graves  on  a  knoll  east  of 
the  old  town  farm,  though  there  is  nothing  now  to  show  such 
to  be  a  fact.  Dr.  Bartlett  is  buried  on  "Crooked  S.  Hill." 
His  story  is  told  elsewhere. 

JOHNSON'S  CORNER  CEMETERY. 

This  was  land  taken  from  the  farm  of  Amos  Wilkins,  the  first 
settler  on  what  is  best  known  now  as  the  Kilburn  S.  Curtis 
place.  There  are  no  records  to  show  whether  the  land  was 
bought  or  donated  for  the  purpose.  The  town  has  kept  the 
walls  in  repair  and  cared  for  the  grounds  to  some  extent,  but  it 
was  never  deeded  to  the  public.  Here  lie  many  of  the  first  set- 
tlers of  that  section  of  the  town, —  the  Wellmans,  Carkins,  Man- 
nings, Perkinses,  Clarks  and  others  who  were  the  pioneers  in 
that  vicinity. 

The  cemetery  on  the  Forest  road  near  the  Benjamin  Crosby 
place  is  a  private  yard  controlled  by  the  Butler,  Stephenson  and 
Crosby  families.  It  is  said  that  a  man  named  Thompson,  who 
died  of  the  small  pox,  was  the  first  man  buried  there. 

SOUTH     CEMETERY. 

The  first  plot  of  land  appropriated  for  this  burial  place  con- 
tained one  half  acre.  Who  was  the  first  owner  of  the  land  can- 
not now  be  told  ;  most  probably  one  of  the  Cram  family,  perhaps 
John  Cram,  the  first  settler  of  the  town.*  There  are  no  writings 
to  show  when  it  was  first  set  apart  as  a  burial  place  for  the  dead, 
but  it  must  have  been  very  early  in  the  history  of  the  town.  In 
comparatively  recent  years  Peter  Cram  gave  a  deed  of  the  bal- 
ance of  the  land,  that  is,  more  than  a  half  acre,  to  Joel  H.  Tar- 
bell  and  Timothy  T.  Putnam  and  their  associates,  and  by  them 
it  was  deeded  to  the  town.  About  the  same  time  this  deed  to 
the  town  was  given,  Rufus  Chamberlain  gave  a  deed  to  the 
town  of  a  strip  of  land  on  the  south  side  of  the  yard,  on  condi- 
tion that  the  town  build  a  good  wall  next  the  road.  This  condi- 
tion was  accepted  and  the  wall  built.  On  this  strip  stands  the 

*  Joseph  Blaney,  Esq.  who  drew  home  Lot  No.  3,  drew  also  and.  Div.  Lot  41,  and  was 
the  first  owner.  See  Schedule,  p.  53,  and  also  old  deed  No.  2,  p.  482.  John  Cram  bought 
of  Blaney,  and  was  first  settler. 


500  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

monument  erected  to  the  memory  of  the  soldier  dead  of  the  civil 
war. 

Some  of  the  Revolutionary  soldiers  are  buried  in  this  yard, 
Lieut.  Jeremiah  Carleton,  Abram  Rose,  the  Boffee  family,  many 
of  them,  and  the  Putnams,  Crams  and  Chamberlains,  of  the 
early  settlers. 

THE    WHITTEMORE   CEMETERY. 

Daniel  Whittemore  came  into  possession  of  his  lot  of  land  in 
1770.  Lot  No.  124  was  deeded  to  him  April  28  of  that  year, 
Benj.  Goodhue  being  the  grantor.  Mr.  Whittemore  died  in 
1776  and  was  the  first  one  buried  in  this  little  cemetery,  and  all 
of  his  descendants  who  have  died  in  town  have  been  buried 
there.  There  is  strong  evidence  that  some  fifteen  or  twenty  out- 
side that  family  have  also  been  interred  there,  among  them 
Capt.  Nathaniel  Bachelder. 

Daniel  B.  Whittemore,  the  great-grandson  of  the  Daniel  be- 
fore mentioned,  says  that  "most  of  the  families  in  this  vicinity 
buried  their  dead  there  previous  to  the  establishment  of  the 
cemetery  at  the  Goodrich  corner, ' '  and  that  ' '  this  lot  was  dis- 
carded largely  on  account  of  the  difficulty  of  digging  graves,  in 
consequence  of  there  being  so  many  large  rocks  in  the  soil. ' ' 

NORTH     LYNDEBOROUGH   CEMETERY. 

This  burial  place  was  probably  established  about  the  year 
1775,  and  was  on  land  of  Nathan  Brown.  While  there  is  no 
deed  showing  the  fact,  the  land  was  undoubtedly  given  by  him 
to  the  community  for  a  public  cemetery.  Sept.  15,  1869,  Mr. 
Nathan  Brown,  of  Roxbury,  Mass.,  gave  a  deed  of  ninety-five 
rods  of  land  as  an  addition  to  the  old  yard,  and  citizens  of  the 
vicinity  gave  money  and  labor  to  put  in  a  fence  and  gate  in  this 
new  part.  In  1895  the  town  laid  out  over  fifty  dollars  in  build- 
ing wall  and  repairing  old  wall. 

The  oldest  gravestone  bears  the  date  of  May  8,  1793,  but  Mrs. 
Benj.  Punchard,  who  died  in  1775,  was  buried  there.  The 
headstone  of  Eliphalet  Senter  was  made  of  a  common  boulder, 
and  the  inscription  was  cut  out  by  some  member  of  the  family 
and  is  dated  1793.  This  must  be  the  first  instance  of  what  is 
now  so  common  a  practice,  that  of  selecting  a  large  granite 
boulder  as  a  monument. 

It  is  here  that  the  Punchards,  Bullocks,  Gardners,  Browns, 
Kppeses,  Seuters,  Boardmans,  Whitmarshes,  Proctors,  Atwoods, 
of  the  older  settlers  of  this  part  of  the  town  are  buried.  Many 


CEMETERIES  501 

of  the  Lewis  family  are  buried  here  also,  and  there  is  a  record 
of  Mr.  Eppes'  negro,  Jennie,  being  buried  here.  Whether  she 
was  a  slave  or  not  is  not  now  known. 

PERHAM    CORNER   CEMETERY. 

This  cemetery  was  probably  established  when  this  section  of 
the  town  was  known  as  Bevins'  Corner,  but  alas !  like  all  the 
others,  it  has  no  records  to  aid  the  historian,  and  its  age  as  a 
burial  place  goes  beyond  the  memory  of  the  oldest  inhabitant. 
There  were  graves  there  which  time  had  almost  obliterated  as 
early  as  1820. 

The  oldest  headstone  is  dated  about  1790.  It  must  have  been 
a  public  yard  from  the  beginning. 

THE   CENTRE    CEMETERY. 

There  have  been  more  burials  at  this  yard  than  at  any  other  in 
the  town,  but  there  is  no  deed  to  show  how  the  town  came  into 
possession  of  the  land,  though  tradition  says  the  land  was 
bought  of  James  Boutwell.  Probably  a  larger  plot  of  land  was 
bought  than  was  needed  for  there  are  records  to  show  that  the 
town  sold  part  of  the  land  back  to  Mr.  Boutwell. 

Some  hold  to  the  tradition  that  the  land  was  part  of  the 
"  common  land"  over  which  the  town  and  Mr.  Daniel  Gould 
had  a  controversy,  but  this  is  doubtful. 

The  town  has  made  a  number  of  appropriations  for  keeping  in 
repair  the  walls  of  this  yard.  The  present  iron  gates  were  pre- 
sented by  Mrs.  Robert  Hawthorne,  formerly  Miss  Abby  J. 
Boutwell.  The  gates  and  granite  gateposts  were  put  in  place 
about  1892. 

The  land  was  never  laid  out  in  lots,  and  the  graves  have  in 
many  instances  been  dug  without  regard  to  order.  There  is  one 
central  walk  in  the  cemetery,  curbed  with  granite,  but  nothing 
further  to  mark  the  boundaries  of  the  lots,  except  in  a  few  in- 
stances where  the  owners  have  improved  and  beautified  them. 

It  is  in  this  yard  that  the  Rev.  Sewall  Goodridge  was  buried, 
and  many  others  of  the  Goodridge  family  ;  George  and  Daniel 
Gould,  and  their  wives  ;  Capt.  William  Barron  and  Olive,  his 
wife ;  Capt.  Peter  Clark,  and  many  of  his  descendants ;  Jacob 
Richardson,  the  first  of  the  Richardson  family  to  settle  in  the 
"middle  of  the  town";  the  Woodwards,  Duttons,  Holts,  Hil- 
dreths,  Dea.  David  Badger  and  Robert,  his  brother,  the  Had- 
leys,  Fullers,  Sargents,  Boutwells,  and  many  of  the  Jones 


502  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

family.     These  names  of  the  early  settlers,  men  and  women  of 
note  and  influence  in  their  day,  are  recorded  here. 

The  easterly  part  of  this  cemetery  is  thickly  crowded  with 
graves,  and  many  are  in  the  westerly  half,  more  in  this  part 
being  unmarked  by  headstones.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the 
cemetery  was  not  laid  out  with  well  defined  walks.  Sloping 
towards  the  setting  sun  it  might  have  been  made  a  beautiful 
burial  place,  with  the  range  of  mountains  in  view  toward  the 
west,  which  in  life  the  sleepers  loved  so  well. 

THE    WEST  OR    DOI^UVER   CEMETERY. 

This  is  situated  just  north  of  the  No.  5  schoolhouse.  The 
land  was  donated  by  Mr.  John  Dolliver,  and  the  first  burials 
there  were  those  of  Mr.  Dolliver's  first  wife  and  Samuel  Hodge- 
man.  They  were  interred  there  the  same  day.  This  was  in 
1860. 

This  cemetery  is  like  most  of  the  other  burial  places  in  that 
the  town  has  no  deed  of  the  land,  but  has  assumed  the  care 
of  it. 

There  is  also  an  old  burial  lot  near  the  old  Dolliver  place 
where  many  persons  were  buried.  There  is  said  to  be  but  one 
headstone  standing,  that  erected  to  the  memory  of  one  of  the 
Blaney  family.  Many  of  the  other  headstones  were  of  slate  and 
are  now  broken  in  pieces.  No  record  or  tradition  can  be  gath- 
ered now  in  relation  to  this  yard,  but  it  must  have  been  one  of 
the  first  places  of  sepulture  in  town. 


CHAPTER  XXXI. 
OWNERS  AND  TRANSFERS  OP  REAI,  ESTATE. 

SOUTH    I.YNDEBOROUGH.       BY    REV.    D.    DONOVAN. 

The  village  now  known  as  South  L,yndeborough  was,  previ- 
ous to  1830,  called  Putnam  Corner.  The  name  was  given  in 
consequence  of  the  number  of  Putnam  families  who  dwelt  in  this 
part  of  the  town.  At  the  date  mentioned  above,  there  were  but 
five  dwellings  in  the  place,  although  authorities  differ  a  little  as 
to  this.  The  places  named  were  the  residence  of  Daniel  Putnam, 
Esq.,  now  the  parsonage;  the  residence  of  Ephraim  Putnam, 
3rd,  the  father  of  Captain  Eleazer  Putnam  ;  the  building  which 
was  then  the  residence  of  Mr.  Ebenezer  Pearson,  later  changed 
to  a  tavern ;  the  house  of  Mr.  John  Putnam  and  his  sister,  both 
unmarried ;  and  the  house  which  stood  where  the  cottage  of 
Mrs.  Dorcas  A.  Holt  now  stands. 

The  second  of  the  houses  here  named  used  to  stand  a  few  rods 
north  of  the  present  residence  of  Mr.  W.  P.  Steele,  and  the  old 
cellar  of  it  is  covered  by  the  railroad.  The  house  was  removed 
across  the  road  to  the  site  now  occupied  by  Tarbell's  store  and 
was  used  as  a  store  by  William  Holt  for  a  time,  who  was  the 
first  merchant  in  South  L,yndeborough.  It  was  afterwards 
moved  across  the  street  to  the  place  where  the  R.  R.  Station 
now  stands.  It  was  again  removed  and  now  stands  as  the  dwell- 
ing of  Mr.  Ward  N.  Cheever. 

Mr.  Ebenezer  Pearson,  a  shoemaker,  lived  then  where  Mr. 
Andy  Holt  now  lives,  but  in  the  old  house  which  was  en- 
larged and  changed  finally  to  its  present  form  and  proportions. 
Mr.  Pearson's  shoe  shop  was  near  the  ground  on  which  the 
B.  &  M.  freight  house  now  stands,  but  a  little  north  of  it.  He 
was  the  father-in-law  of  Mr.  Ephraim  Putnam  whose  home  was 
where  Mr.  Pettingill  now  lives.  Mr.  Pearson  removed  to 
where  Mr.  A.  T.  Ford  now  lives,  a  place  not  included  in  the 
forementioned  five  houses.  His  son-in-law,  Ephraim  Putnam 
then  took  the  Pearson  house,  enlarged  it,  raised  its  roof,  remod- 
elled it  and  fitted  it  for  a  hotel  about  1835.  It  was  then  called 
"  The  Forest  House,"  probably  in  honor  of  the  "  Forest  Road," 
recently  built.  Its  first  landlord  was  John  J.  Martin,  who  kept 


504  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

it  only  a  short  time.  Mr.  E.  B.  Crocker  of  Amherst  was  his 
successor,  and  also  stayed  but  a  short  time. 

January  15,  1839,  Mr.  Joel  H.  Tarbell  married  Esther,  the 
daughter  of  Mr.  Ephraim  Putnam,  and  they  commenced  life  in 
the  hotel,  and  conducted  the  house  nearly  fifteen  years.  Soon 
after  becoming  landlord  he  was  appointed  postmaster ;  and  he 
kept  both  the  post-office  and  a  country  store  in  that  building. 
Later  he  bought  the  stock  of  merchandise  of  Mr.  Oilman  P. 
Fletcher,  who  had  been  trading  here  but  a  short  time,  and  he 
afterward  built  a  new  store.  He  continued  in  trade  till  1857, 
and  retained  possession  of  the  hotel.  About  that  time  he  sold 
his  new  store  and  stock  to  Mr.  William  W.  Young  of  Chelsea, 
Mass.,  and  for  several  years  after  that  devoted  himself  to  farm- 
ing on  the  homestead  of  his  father-in-law. 

Among  the  later  occupants  of  the  hotel  was  Mr.  William  Tar- 
bell,  a  brother  of  the  owner,  who  kept  it  but  a  short  time.  Its 
proprietor  was  dissatisfied  with  its  management,  and,  it  is  said, 
took  down  the  tavern  sign. 

After  Mr.  William  Tarbell  withdrew,  the  Shattuck  brothers, 
cousins  of  the  Tarbells,  tried  the  business  for  a  little  while,  but 
gave  it  up. 

After  that  the  house  became  for  several  years  a  tenement 
house,  in  which  the  families  of  Mr.  John  Emery,  Mr.  Charles 
Tarbell  (half  brother  of  owner),  Mr.  John  Gage  and  Mr.  John 
Woodward  found  a  temporary  home. 

Mr.  Hiram  Tarbell,  another  half  brother,  afterwards  tried 
keeping  it  as  a  tavern,  and  gave  quite  an  elaborate  opening  ban- 
quet. But  the  business  proved  insufficient  to  support  the  house, 
and  its  occupant  retired  after  two  months. 

Mrs.  E.  P.  Wallace  conducted  it  as  a  boarding  house  for  sev- 
eral years  after  that  ;  and  her  house  was  well  patronized  and 
had  many  summer  guests.  Her  daughter,  Miss  C.  M.  Wallace, 
assisted  her  mother  in  its  management,  was  a  talented  lady,  a 
graceful  elocutionist,  and  much  sought  as  a  reader.  She  was 
also  a  successful  teacher,  and  in  1878  was  chosen  superintending 
committee  of  schools.  Mrs.  Wallace's  house  was  called  by  the 
city  people,  "The  Pine  Grove  House,"  on  account  of  its 
' '  proximity  "  as  a  writer  of  those  days  expressed  it,  ' '  to  three 
delightful  pine  groves."  Her  health  failed  and  she  left  the 
place. 

The  house  was  kept  after  that  as  a  summer  boarding  house  for 
a  few  years  by  Mrs.  E.  M.  Swasey,  and  its  last  manager  as  such 


REAL  ESTATE  505 

was  Mrs.  M.  J.  Curtis.  Mr.  Tarbell  was  interested  always  in 
its  orderliness  and  success,  and  in  its  last  years  as  boarding- 
house,  its  guests  overflowed  all  its  accommodations,  many  find- 
ing lodgings  in  the  vicinity  and  taking  meals  at  its  tables. 

The  place  was  sold  to  Mr.  I,.  P.  Hadley  in  1888,  and  has 
since  been  used  chiefly  as  a  farmhouse.  Owing  to  the  sudden 
decease  of  L,.  P.  Hadley  Dec.  28,  1902,  the  place  was  for  sale 
and  Mr.  Andy  Holt  bought  it  in  1904,  occupies  it,  and  has 
added  furnace  heating,  bath  room  and  other  modern  improve- 
ments. It  is  pleasantly  situated,  near  the  railroad  station,  post- 
office,  store  and  the  Baptist  church.  The  reporter  above  re- 
ferred to  wrote,  "  A  piazza,  surrounds  the  house,  and  a  huge  ash 
tree  said  to  be  a  hundred  years  of  age  gives  it  a  splendid  shade 
on  a  summer's  day." 

The  fourth  house  of  those  mentioned  was  the  home  of  Mr. 
John  Putnam  and  his  sister  Betsey,  familiarly  called  Uncle  John 
and  Aunt  Betsey  ;  it  stood  where  W.  S.  Tarbell's  house  now 
stands.  The  main  part  of  the  house  was  taken  down,  and  the 
ell  was  removed  down  the  hill  westward,  and  formed  a  part  of 
the  house  lately  vacated  by  Mr.  Andy  Cram.  The  house  of 
W.  S.  Tarbell  was  built  by  the  late  Mr.  Byron  Stacey,  son-in- 
law  of  Mr.  J.  H.  Tarbell.  After  Mr.  Stacey's  death  it  was 
purchased  by  Mr.  C.  F.  Tarbell,  and  became  Mr.  Walter  Tar- 
bell's  by  inheritance. 

The  fifth  house  of  those  mentioned  was  that  which  was  oc- 
cupied by  Solomon  Cram,  a  blacksmith,  who  came  here  from 
Roxbury,  Vermont,  about  1829.  The  house  stood  on  the  spot 
now  occupied  by  Mrs.  Dorcas  A.  Holt's  cottage.  He  built  the 
blacksmith  shop,  the  first  in  the  village,  which  is  now  carried 
on  by  Ward  N.  Cheever.  This  was  the  only  such  shop  in  the 
place  till  about  ten  years  ago,  W.  H.  Abbott  built  his  shop,  and 
about  two  years  ago,  Herbert  A.  Cheever  built  his. 

In  addition  to  these  five,  we  may  now  notice  the  dwellings  of 
more  recent  date.  The  house  south  of  the  railroad  station  on 
the  Forest  road,  or  main  street,  is  Mr.  William  P.  Steele's.  It 
was  built  by  his  father-in-law,  Captain  Eleazer  Putnam,  about 
1830,  and  was  bequeathed  to  his  daughter,  Adeline,  who  is 
Mrs.  Steele.  Many  transient  visitors  to  this  village  find  here 
homelike  accommodations. 

Opposite  this  is  the  house  so  long  the  home  of  the  late  C. 
Henry  Holt,  postmaster  about  twenty-four  years,  where  he 
kept  the  post  office.  The  house  was  built  by  Dr.  Jonas 


506  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Wheeler,  whose  daughter,  Mary  A.,  was  the  first  Mrs.  C.  H. 
Holt.  It  is  now  the  home  of  Mr.  T.  M.  Beal,  who  married 
Miss  Ardella,  eldest  daughter  of  Mr.  C.  Henry  Holt.  This 
house  and  grounds  became  her  portion  of  her  father's  estate. 

The  adjoining  place  on  the  south  is  the  home  of  Mrs.  Dorcas 
A.  Holt,  widow  of  George  Washington  Holt,  who  was  for  a 
brief  period  a  merchant  in  this  village.  The  house  is  open 
more  in  the  summer,  as  a  resort  for  her  relatives  and  her  son's 
family,  who  here  seek  summer  rest  and  recuperation. 

South  of  this  and  opposite  the  blacksmith  shop  is  the  house 
owned  and  occupied  several  years  by  Mrs.  W.  H.  Abbott.  It 
was  built  by  Mr.  Joseph  H.  Ford.  Here  dwelt,  for  a  time, 
Rev.  Mr.  Hussey,  the  Universalist  minister,  who  preached  to 
the  believers  in  universal  salvation,  and  occupied  the  Baptist 
meeting-house  a  portion  of  the  time,  for  religious  services.  It 
was  also  the  home  of  Mr.  Jeremiah  Hartshorn,  and  of  his 
widow,  Aunt  Ruby,  and  of  Harriet  Russell,  and  of  Mrs. 
Abigail,  widow  of  Capt.  Israel  Putnam.  It  was  for  many 
years  the  property  of  Mr.  J.  H.  Tarbell,  who  made  to  it  the 
addition  of  the  two-story  part  nearest  the  street. 

The  next  house  on  the  street  going  south  is  Mr.  W.  N. 
Cheever's,  already  described  as  that  of  Ephraim  Putnam,  3rd., 
removed  from  its  former  foundation  when  the  house  of  Capt. 
Eleazer  Putnam  was  built,  for  a  time  used  as  a  store,  the  first  in 
the  village,  and  later  removed  to  its  present  place.  Mr.  Cheever 
has  lived  here  since  1861,  when  he  came  from  I^unenburg, 
Mass. 

A  few  rods  south  of  this,  across  the  street,  is  the  house  of 
Mrs.  Martha  M.,  widow  of  the  late  Charles  M.  Butler.  The 
main  part  of  her  house  used  to  stand  with  side  facing  the  street. 
At  that  time  it  contained  a  shoemaker's  shop,  and  also  a  little 
store,  which  were  kept  by  Mr.  John  J.  Martin,  a  former  land- 
lord of  "  The  Forest  House." 

The  ell  of  this  house  had  previously  been  a  separate  build- 
ing, and  contained  a  basement  part.  In  this  lived  Mrs.  David 
Gage  and  her  mother  for  a  time  ;  and  here,  also,  Mrs.  Ephraim 
Hildreth  Putnam  spent  her  last  days. 

Very  close  to  this  on  the  south  is  the  residence  of  J.  A. 
Johnson,  Esq.  The  house  was  built  by  Mr.  Francis  Johnson, 
father  of  its  present  owner,  is  adapted  for  two  families,  and  is 
occupied  by  both  Mr.  Johnson,  himself,  and  his  son-in-law,  Mr. 
Frank  J.  Bishop. 


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South  of  this,  and  on  the  other  side  of  the  street,  is  a  new 
house,  built  in  1903,  by  Herbert  A.  Cheever,  who  learned  the 
blacksmith  business  from  his  father,  worked  for  him  several 
years,  and  is  now  occupying  a  shop  independently.  His  shop 
is  near  his  house. 

Nearly  opposite  the  shop  last  named  is  the  dwelling  of  W. 
H.  Cheever,  brother  of  Herbert.  He  bought  a  small  building 
and  lived  in  it  a  few  years,  and  built  later  the  two-story  part, 
using  the  old  part  as  the  ell.  He  has  now  a  pleasant,  comfort- 
able home. 

Still  farther  south  and  across  the  street  is  the  home  of  Mr. 
John  C.  Carkin,  who  is  employed  by  D.  Whiting  &  Co.,  and 
has  charge  of  the  milk-house,  and  of  their  grain  and  feed  sup- 
plies. The  house  was  built  in  1857  by  Mrs.  David  Gage,  and 
was  sold  to  Mr.  Olney  P.  Butler  about  1865,  and  purchased  by 
Mr.  Carkin  from  the  heirs  of  Mr.  Butler. 

On  the  same  lot,  a  few  rods  south,  is  the  old  house  in  which 
John's  father,  Mr.  David  Carkin,  lived  several  years.  It  is 
now  owned  by  Fred  Carkin,  grandson  of  David,  and  second 
son  of  John. 

Nearly  opposite  the  last-named  house  is  that  of  Mr.  Edwin 
Wilkerson.  It  was  built  by  Mr.  Olney  P.  Butler  in  company 
with  Mr.  Hiram  F.  Blood  of  Wilton.  It  was  for  several  years 
the  home  of  Mr.  George  Butler,  Olney 's  son,  who  sold  it  to 
Messrs.  Byron  Putnam  and  Walter  S.  Tarbell.  Andrew  J. 
Marshall  occupied  it  a  few  years  as  tenant,  after  which  it  was 
purchased  by  its  present  owner.  It  has  recently  reverted  to  the 
Byron  Putnam  estate. 

The  next  house  below,  on  the  road  towards  Wilton,  was 
built  by  the  sons  of  Major  William  Richardson  whose  wife  was 
a  daughter  of  Squire  Daniel  Putnam.  After  their  father's 
decease,  the  sons  removed  to  Milford  where  the  next  station  on 
the  B.  &  M.  railroad,  west  of  Milford  village,  is  named  for 
them,  "Richardson's."  The  house  was  afterwards  rented  to 
several  families,  among  whom  were  Mr.  Joseph  Blanchard,  Mrs. 
Colby,  whose  son,  John  Freeman  Colby,  Esq.,  of  Boston  and 
Mont  Vernon,  won  distingushed  honor  in  his  profession.* 

*  Here  also  lived  Mr.  Tidd  whose  daughter,  a  native  of  Lyndeborough,  won  great 
praise  for  her  presence  of  mind  a  few  years  ago,  as  a  teacher  in  Somerville,  Mass. 
Discovering  the  great  building  in  which  she  was  teaching  was  on  fire,  she  hastily  but 
quietly  informed  the  other  teachers  to  arrange  their  scholars  for  fire  drill,  and  got  them 
all  out,  almost  before  they  discovered  any  fire.  None  of  the  hundreds  of  pupils  were 
injured,  and  her  prompt  action  saved  both  the  pupils  and  the  building.  The  school 
board  publicly  thanked  her  afterwards  for  her  heroic  service. 


508  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

For  the  longest  period  in  its  history  it  has  been  the  home  of 
the  Ross  family,  Mrs.  Sarah  Ross,  widow  of  Samuel  Ross, 
a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  and  her  children.  It  is  now  owned 
by  Mrs.  Clough  of  L/ynu,  Mass.,  as  a  summer  residence. 

The  next  house  south,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  street,  is 
that  of  Mr.  George  Ross,  one  of  the  fore-mentioned  Ross 
family.  It  was  built  by  Mr.  Nathan  Fish,  the  father  of  Mrs. 
Joseph  Blanchard.  It  was  the  first  house  built  by  Mr.  A.  S. 
Conant,  after  learning  his  trade  of  house  carpenter. 

The  last  house  in  I^yndeborough,  on  the  direct  road  to 
Wilton,  is  Mr.  James  Colson's.  It  was  built  by  Mr.  Quincy 
Young,  who  sold  it  to  Mr.  Orin  Cram.  The  latter  willed  it  to 
his  son  Nelson,  who  sold  it  to  Mr.  Colson.  In  1905  it  was  pur- 
chased by  Miss  Ellen  B.  Churchill. 

Before  reaching  Mr.  Colson's  house,  a  road  turns  to  the  left 
leading  by  where  the  glass  factory  used  to  stand.  On  this  road 
the  first  house  is  that  of  Mr.  George  Winn,  which  he  bought  of 
Mr.  Samuel  Ross.  This  was  used  as  a  boarding  house  when 
the  factory  was  in  operation,  and  was  managed  by  Mrs.  Cutter, 
the  mother-in-law  of  Samuel  Ross,  son  of  above  named  veteran. 

A  little  farther  along,  on  the  right  hand,  is  the  dwelling  of  Mr. 
Benjamin  Joslin,  R.  F.  D.  carrier  No.  i.  It  was  built  by  the 
late  Mr.  J.  D.  Putnam,  agent,  and  apparent  proprietor  of  the 
glass  factory.  After  his  decease  the  house  was  for  a  time 
occupied  by  his  daughters,  Misses  Emma  D.  and  Grace  E.  Put- 
nam. It  was  finally  sold  to  Mr.  George  Butler,  who  improved 
the  grounds,  added  the  granite  curbing,  and,  after  making  im- 
portant changes  in  and  about  the  house  itself,  sold  it  to  Mr. 
Joslin,  its  present  occupant. 

Next  to  this  on  the  same  side  of  the  road  is  a  small  house, 
formerly  the  office  of  the  glass  factory,  which  Mr.  Willis  H. 
Draper  bought  and  changed  to  a  dwelling,  in  which  he  lived 
several  years.  He  removed  to  Nashua,  and  the  house  is  now 
owned  by  Mr.  J.  Alonzo  Carkin  and  occupied  by  his  brother, 
Fred  Carkin. 

Turning  from  the  latter  house  towards  the  village  again,  the 
house  on  the  right  is  Mr.  Willie  C.  Carkin's,  who  sold  it  to  Mr. 
Harry  Draper,  and  recently  bought  it  back  and  now  occupies  it. 

Continuing  still  towards  the  R.  R.  station,  the  house  on  the 
left  is  Mr.  H.  E.  Emery's.  It  was  built  by  his  uncle,  Morris 
M.  Emery,  who  lived  in  it  several  years,  and  died  in  March, 
1886.  His  wife  died  in  1887,  and  the  house  became  the  prop- 


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erty  of  his  nephew  above  named,  as  the  only  male  heir  of  the 
Emery  family. 

Across  the  street,  nearly  opposite,  is  the  house  of  Mrs. 
Sharpe,  widow  of  the  late  Joseph  Sharpe.  The  house  was 
built  by  Mr.  William  Young,  who  lived  in  it  a  few  years,  then 
sold  it  to  Mr.  Sharpe,  and  removed  to  Manchester. 

The  next  house  on  the  same  side  of  the  street  is  Mr.  Milo 
Burton's.  He  is  foreman  on  this  section  of  the  B.  &  M.  rail- 
road. The  house  was  built  by  the  late  J.  H.  Tarbell,  Esq., 
about  the  year  1877.  It  was  for  years  the  property  of  Mr. 
Edward  Hall,  who  repaired  and  made  important  changes  in  its 
interior,  and  later  removed  to  Antrim.  Mr.  Burton  bought  it 
of  Mr.  Hall. 

Nearly  opposite  Mr.  Burton's,  across  the  street,  is  Mr.  W. 
A.  Barden's  house.  It  was  built  by  Mr.  I,.  P.  Jensen,  an 
active,  worthy  citizen,  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church, 
and  for  several  years  the  efficient  superintendent  of  the  Baptist 
Sunday  School.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade.  In  1892,  he 
sold  his  house  to  Mr.  Barden,  and  removed  with  his  family  to 
California. 

Very  close  to  Mr.  Burton's  house  is  that  which  was  originally 
built  on  the  same  plan,  and  by  the  same  person,  J.  H.  Tarbell, 
Esq.  It  was  for  several  years  owned  by  Mr.  Mullin,  a  glass 
worker,  who,  after  the  closing  of  the  glass  works  here,  removed 
to  New  York  State.  It  was  let  a  few  years  to  Mr.  A.  J. 
Marshall ;  afterwards,  it  was  bought  and  occupied  by  Herbert 
A.  Cheever,  and  after  a  few  years,  was  sold  to  Mr.  S.  S.  Harts- 
horn, its  present  owner. 

The  next  house  across  the  way,  and  set  back  from  the  street, 
is  that  built  and  occupied  by  the  late  Mr.  Byron  Putnam.  It 
is  now  the  property  of  his  adopted  daughter,  K.  Frances  Put- 
nam, who  is  now  Mrs.  James  A.  G.  Putnam. 

Passing  under  the  railroad  bridge  still  west,  the  house  on  the 
right  hand,  reached  by  two  sets  of  steps  ascending  the  terraces, 
is  the  home  of  Mrs.  Ann  M.,  widow  of  the  late  John  M.  Emery. 
Mr.  Emery  was  for  many  years  a  successful  teacher  of  both 
vocal  and  instrumental  music.  He  built  the  house,  lived  in  it 
many  years,  and  died  in  it  Sept.  6,  1891.  It  was  first  a  cottage 
of  a  story  and  a  half ;  but  a  few  years  ago  bay  windows  were 
added,  and  an  increased  elevation  of  the  front  gave  more  room 
within,  and  gave  the  whole  a  finer  appearance. 

The  next  place  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  street,  is  the  resi- 


510  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

dence  of  Mr.  Albert  S,  Conant,  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  and 
a  house  carpenter,  whose  hands  have  been  employed  on  many 
of  the  houses  in  our  village.  His  dwelling  has  often  accom- 
modated two  families.  Among  its  tenants  were  Charles  H. 
Wilson,  Mrs.  George  Bishop,  Edward  Hall,  Mrs.  Octavia  Shedd, 
W.  H.  Cheever,  Mrs.  Letitia  McGinley,  W.  H.  Dolliver, 
Thomas  Ross,  J.  A.  Carkin,  Miles  Wallace,  Hartwell  Stephen- 
sou,  Will  Carkin,  twice,  Roy  Burton,  Frank  Haley,  Mrs.  Addie 
M.  Heath,  W.  H.  Abbott,  Dustin  Wheeler,  and  John  E.  Dol- 
liver, twice. 

Nearly  opposite  Mr.  Conant' s  is  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Fanny 
Putnam  and  her  sisters,  the  Misses  Clara  and  Harriet  Brown. 
It  was  built  by  the  late  John  Fletcher  Holt,  whose  widow, 
Mary  A.  (Brown)  Holt  obtained  a  life  lease  of  the  place.  The 
present  occupants  were  her  sisters,  and  were  living  with  her 
when  she  died,  Jan.  29,  1897.  The  place  then  became  the 
property  of  Miss  Flora  M.  Holt,  grand-daughter  of  John 
Fletcher  Holt,  and  was  purchased  from  her  by  Mrs.  Putnam,  its 
present  owner. 

We  return  again  to  the  railroad  station.  The  house  was 
built  by  Mr.  J.  H.  Tarbell  as  an  armory  for  the  Lafayette 
Artillery.  It  occupies  a  portion  of  the  ground  on  which  the 
Baptist  meeting-house  originally  stood.  Mr.  Tarbell  offered  to 
give  the  Baptists  the  lot  on  which  their  meeting-house  now 
stands  for  their  old  lot,  and  also  agreed  to  assist  them  in  mov- 
ing their  house  to  its  location.  The  offer  was  accepted,  and 
the  building  now  used  as  a  railroad  station  was  erected  in  1863. 
When  the  Wilton  railroad  came  through,  Mr.  Tarbell  sold  the 
place  to  the  railr  oad  company.  The  building  contains  a  tene- 
ment in  which  resides  the  station  agent,  Mr.  E.  A.  Danforth, 
who  has  held  his  position  about  thirty  years.  Over  the  main 
part  of  the  building  is  a  hall,  used  by  the  Lafayette  Artillery 
until  Citizens'  Hall  was  built.  It  was  known  as  "  armory  hall." 

The  next  place  north  of  the  R.  R.  station  is  the  Baptist 
meeting-house,  described  more  fully  in  the  history  of  the 
church. 

North  of  the  Baptist  meeting-house  is  a  lane  running  east- 
ward, on  the  south  side  of  which  and  directly  in  rear  of  the 
meeting-house  is  a  building  used  as  a  storehouse  by  Mr.  Everett 
Cram.  On  the  north  side  of  this  lane  are  first  several  liorse- 
sheds.  Then  eastward  is  the  residence  of  Mr.  James  Colson. 
The  main  part  of  the  house  was  formerly  a  meat  market,  and 


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stood  across  the  street  in  front  of  W.  H.  Cheever's  house.  It 
was  then  the  property  of  Mr.  Albro  Wilson,  who  sold  it  to  Mr. 
Albert  Cram  and  moved  to  Milford.  Mr.  Cram  kept  the  market 
a  short  time,  assisted  by  Mr.  D.  B.  Sargent,  after  which  he  sold 
it  to  Mr.  J.  H.  Tarbell,  who  moved  it  to  its  present  location. 
He  sold  it  again  to  Mr.  Miles  Wallace,  who  kept  it  himself,  and 
let  it  to  various  persons,  viz.:  Roy  Burton,  Andrew  Marshall, 
Jason  Holt,  and  Will  C.  Carkin,  who  finally  bought  it,  and 
changed  it  to  a  dwelling.  Byron  Putnam  accepted  security  on 
the  property  and  the  ell  was  added  by  his  co-operation.  Mr. 
Carkin  lived  in  it  but  a  short  time  and  moved  to  Nashua,  when 
it  came  into  Mr.  Putnam's  possession.  After  his  death  his 
heirs  sold  it  at  auction.  It  was  bought  by  Mr.  Milo  Burton, 
who  sold  it  to  John  Dolliver,  who  recently  sold  it  to  Mr.  James 
Colson,  its  present  occupant. 

The  next  house,  near  the  pine  grove,  is  Mr.  Albert  Cram's, 
who  built  it  about  the  time  that  the  railroad  came  into  the  place. 
Unable  to  get  a  lot  on  either  of  the  thoroughfares,  Mr.  Joel  H. 
Tarbell  sold  him  the  lot  on  which  he  built  his  home.  His  niece, 
Miss  Irene  Cram,  was  brought  up  by  her  uncle,  and  married 
Mr.  Walter  Patterson,  and  they  have  their  home  in  Mr.  Cram's 
house. 

The  dwelling  next  north  of  the  Baptist  church  is  the  so-called 
"  brown  cottage,"  now  the  home  of  Mrs.  Edwin  Swasey.  The 
late  Joel  H.  Tarbell  gave  Mrs.  Swasey,  his  sister,  the  use  of 
this  property  during  her  life.  Mr.  Tarbell  bought  one  of  the 
buildings  which  the  R.  R.  company  wished  to  dispose  of,  re- 
moved it  to  this  location,  and  remodelled  it  into  a  dwelling 
house,  having  Mr.  Albert  Cram  as  mechanic. 

For  a  time  Mr.  Tarbell  fitted  up  a  small  dry  goods  store  in  the 
front  part  of  the  house,  and  stocked  it  for  his  grand-daughter, 
Miss  Minnie  Stacey.  But  the  business  did  not  seem  to  pay,  and 
so  was  soon  given  up.  The  rooms  were  again  changed  into 
living  apartments,  and  were  occupied  a  while  by  Mrs.  E.  C. 
Tarbell  and  son,  Charles  H.;  and  also,  by  Mr.  Dustin  Wheeler 
and  J.  A.  Carkin.  They  are  now  the  home  of  Mr.  Roy  N. 
Putnam, our  postmaster. 

Passing  by  the  ' '  Pine  Grove  House  ' '  already  described,  and 
going  toward  Greenfield,  less  than  half  a  mile  from  our  post- 
office  are  four  more  dwellings,  which  are  part  of  South  I/ynde- 
borotigh.  The  first  of  these  is  Mrs.  George  Willis  Hadley's 
house,  two-story,  built  in  1899  and  1900,  near  the  railroad  cross- 


5 1 2  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

ing,  west  of  the  cut.  It  is  of  modern  construction  and  appoint- 
ments, and  a  good  windmill  forces  water  from  the  wejl  into  all 
parts  of  the  house.  It  is  a  handsome  dwelling,  and  the  first  one 
in  our  vicinity  to  be  furnace  heated. 

Farther  west,  on  the  same  side  of  the  street,  is  Mr.  Charles 
Clement's  home,  a  pretty  cottage,  newly  painted  in  1904.  Mr. 
Clement  is  a  house  carpenter,  who  built  his  house  in  1877,  and 
lived  here  until  1893,  when  he  removed  to  Mass.  He  was  em- 
ployed several  years  on  the  bridge  building  department  of  the 
N.  Y.,  N.  H.  &  H.  R.R.  But  last  year  he  returned,  and  is  now 
occupying  his  own  house.  During  his  absence  the  house  was 
let  to  several  tenants,  among  whom  were  Mr.  Dustin  Wheeler, 
Mr.  Dana  Hadley  and  Mr.  John  Dolliver. 

Opposite  Mr.  Clement's  is  the  house  of  Mr.  George  M.  Cram. 
It  was  built  by  Mr.  L,evi  Tyler  in  its  present  form,  and  Mr. 
Cram  has  lived  in  it  about  thirty-two  years. 

The  road  which  branches  from  the  Forest  road  to  the  centre 
of  the  town,  between  Mr.  G.  M.  Cram's  house  and  that  of  Mr. 
Joseph  A.  Blanchard,  has  on  it  three  dwellings.  The  first  of 
these  is  about  three-fourths  of  a  mile  from  the  Forest  road,  and 
is  the  Kidder  place,,  now  the  home  of  Ethan  A.  Woodward. 
Mr.  W.  married  Elizabeth  Rebecca  Kidder,  the  only  living  child 
of  Mr.  Franklin  H.  Kidder,  and  through  his  wife  and  also  the 
good  will  of  her  parents,  he,  after  his  wife's  decease  on  July  20, 
1904,  became  possessor  of  that  part  of  the  original  Kidder  es- 
tate. The  succession  was  John,  Ephraim,  Thomas,  Franklin 
Holt,  Elizabeth  Rebecca  (Kidder)  Woodward. 

On  what  was  also  a  part  of  the  John  Kidder  place  is  the  home 
of  Fred  Moore,  son  of  Harriet  Moore,  whose  mother  was  Martha 
Harriet  (Kidder)  Moore,  wife  of  Cyrus  Moore.  The  latter  is 
credited  with  having  built  the  house  in  which  his  grandson  now 
lives. 

Next  north  of  this  lives  Mrs.  Mary,  widow  of  the  late  Deacon 
S.  S.  Cummin gs.  The  house  is  now  the  home  of  one  of  her 
grand-daughters,  Mrs.  Hayford,  who  has  two  children.  Deacon 
Cummings  died  in  1897,  and  Mrs.  C.  keeps  possession  of  the 
home.  The  house  was  built  by  Mr.  Francis  Johnson,  the  father 
of  J.  A.  Johnson,  Esq. 

Next  west  of  Mr.  Cram's  is  the  residence  of  Mr.  Joseph  A- 
Blanchard,  nearly  in  front  of  a  road  which  comes  in  from  the 
southwest  to  the  Forest  road.  The  place  is  said  to  have  had 
three  dwellings  on  it.  A  little  to  the  north  of  the  present  house 


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was  one  in  which  Mr.  Daniel  Cram  used  to  live.  He  sold  out 
to  Mr.  Samuel  Woodward,  the  father  of  the  late  Foster  Wood- 
ward. Mr.  I,evi  Tyler  was  next  owner,  who  built  the  present 
dwelling  and  sold  to  John  Lynch,  who  again  sold  to  Mr.  Luke 
A.*  Lucas,  Mr.  Blanchard's  predecessor.  He,  the  latter,  has 
been  the  longest  occupant  of  it.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  8th 
N.  H.  V.,  and  was  in  the  battle  of  Port  Hudson. 

On  the  same  road  farther  west  is  the  home  of  Elmer  E. 
Blanchard,  son  of  Joseph  A.  He  succeeded  Frank  Eaton, 
whose  parents  died  on  the  place  and  were  carried  to  Somerville, 
Mass.,  for  burial.  The  place  had  been  previously  owned  by 
Mr.  Joseph  Chamberlain,  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church, 
called  "  Baptist  Joe,"  to  distinguish  him  from  brickmaker  Joe, 
who  was  called  "  Brick  Joe."  The  latter  was  the  father  of  our 
townsman,  Mr.  Rufus  Chamberlain.  The  Eatons  bought  the 
place  of  Mr.  Byron  Putnam,  from  whom  Mr.  Blanchard  also 
bought  it. 

A  short  distance  farther  on,  the  old  road  passed  up  the  hill  a 
little  west  of  north,  to  the  Jotham  Hildreth1  place,  home  of  both 
father  and  son  of  that  name.  The  old  road  passed  by  the  Hil- 
dreth place  and  continued  nearly  the  same  Bourse,  and  came  out 
at  the  Forest  road  near  the  No.  9  schoolhouse.  After  the  late 
Jotham  Hildreth's  death  Mr.  Herbert  Wilkerson  bought  the 
place  and  sold  it  to  the  late  Mr.  Humphrey  Gould,  whose  family 
have  greatly  improved  the  house  and  its  surroundings,  make  it 
their  permanent  home  and  also  entertain  summer  guests. 

Near  this  house  on  its  north  side,  is  a  road  which  crosses  the 
old  road  and  passes  down  the  hill,  crossing  the  Forest  road  near 
Mr.  Edward  Dolliver's,  and  descending  a  steep  hill,  turns 
sharply  to  the  left,  at  its  foot,  and  crosses  the  B.  &  M.  R.  R. 
A  little  farther  on,  it  crosses  the  Rocky  River.  At  this  point  in 
early  days  was  Sargent's  mill,  a  wool  carding  and  fulling  mill. 
Later  a  cabinet  shop  was  carried  on  here,  by  John  Newell  and 
still  later  by  Daniel  Cragin,  now  of  Wilton,  who  for  a  while  had 
Mr.  Albert  Cram  as  a  partner.  He  sold  to  Mr.  Gage,  and  the 
latter  to  Mr.  Jacob  Crosby,  who  died  suddenly  while  owner. 
After  his  death  Mr.  Alvaro  Buttrick  bought  it  and  carried  it  on 
a  number  of  years,  and  sold  it  to  Warren  A.  Eaton.  The  latter 
carried  it  on  till  his  health  failed  and  he  removed  to  Somerville, 
Mass.  He  had  made  a  number  of  improvements  in  the  way  of 
repairs  in  both  the  mill  and  dwelling.  The  property  was 


5 1 4  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

bought   by   Mr.  George   W.  Eastman,  who   managed   it   but  a 
short  time,  and  sold  out  to  its  present  owner,  B.  W.  Colburn. 

The  next  neighbor  west  of  this  is  Mr.  G.  W.  Eastman.  By 
trade  he  is  a  jeweller  and  repairs  clocks,  watches,  etc.  He 
came  to  the  farm  for  his  health  and  has  added  to  his  farm  wdrk 
the  management  of  a  green  house,  doing  considerable  business 
as  florist.  He  also  works  at  his  trade  as  opportunities  offer. 
His  place  was  previously  the  home  of  the  late  Adoniram 
Russell. 

The  straight  road  up  the  hill  northwest  of  Mr.  Eastman's 
leads  to  Mr.  William  Dolliver's.  His  predecessor  was  David  S. 
Draper.  Thomas  J.  Draper  afterwards  lived  with  his  father, 
David  S.,  took  care  of  him  in  his  last  days  and  succeeded  in 
ownership  of  the  place.  After  the  latter 's  decease  Mr.  Dolliver 
bought  it. 

West  of  the  last  named  William  Dolliver,  lives  his  brother, 
Samuel  Dolliver,  in  the  old  home  of  his  ancestors.  The  house 
is  reported  to  have  been  built  by  John  Beasom  who  came  here 
from  Marblehead,  Mass,  in  1775  with  his  father,  Philip.  The 
latter  was  the  grandfather  of  the  late  Capt.  John  Dolliver,  who 
lived  and  died  where,  his  son  Samuel  now  lives. 

Starting  again  from  the  village  of  South  I^ydeborough,  at  the 
western  crossing  of  the  railway,  a  short- piece  of  the  highway 
passes  southwest  from  the  Forest  road  towards  Temple.  After 
crossing  the  track  of  B.  &  M.  R.  R.,  the  first  house,  now  occu- 
pied by  Mrs.  Dale,  was  the  residence  of  the  late  Joel  H.  Tar- 
bell,  Esq.,  and  here  both  he  and  his  wife  ended  their  days.  It 
was  formerly  both  the  store  and  the  residence  of  Mr.  William 
W.  Young  who  sold  his  entire  property  to  the  R.  R.  company, 
and  returned  to  Chelsea,  Mass.,  about  1874.  The  R.  R.  com- 
pany sold  the  store  to  Mr.  Tarbell  who  was  its  original  builder. 
He  moved  it  back  from  the  railroad  and  changed  it  wholly  into 
a  dwelling,  occupying  it  till  his  death,  in  1891.  His  wife,  also, 
Mrs.  Esther  Putnam  Tarbell,  continued  to  reside  here  till  she 
died,  in  November,  1901.  After  this,  Mr.  Andrew  J.  Marshall, 
a  civil  war  veteran,  with  greatly  impaired  health,  lived  in  a  part 
of  the  house,  and  died  in  March,  1902. 

Mrs.  Dale  became  the  next  tenant  and  continues  so  in  1905. 

The  next  biiilding  is  the  hair-dressing  shop  of  Mr.  John  Page, 
put  up  about  the  time  that  the  location  of  a  glove  factory  was 
anticipated  in  our  village. 

The  next  place  is  the  home  of  Mr.  Roy  Burton,  who  bought 


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the  place  of  Mr.  Andy  Cram.  The  latter  lived  here  many  years, 
and  made  considerable  addition  to  it.  Here  lived  Mr.  Joel  Tar- 
bell,  father  of  Capt.  Joel  H.,  and  also  Mrs.  Abigail  Hadley. 

Near  this,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  street,  is  the  home  of 
Mr.  A.  T.  Ford,  whose  wife  died  here  a  few  weeks  ago.  On 
this  ground  was  an  old  house  occupied  in  1835  by  Ebenezer 
Pearson,  Jr.,  the  maternal  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Joel  H.  Tarbell. 
It  was  later  the  home  of  Mr.  Joseph  H.  Ford.  The  old  house 
was  torn  down  and  the  present  one  built  by  Mr.  A.  T.  Ford, 
who  is  a  carpenter  and  wheelwright,  and  has  a  small  shop  near 
his  house.  Other  tenants  were  Dustin  Wheeler  and  Mrs.  Le- 
titia  McGinley.  , 

Close  by  Mr.  Ford's  shop  is  the  blacksmith  shop  of  Mr. 
W.  H.  Abbott. 

Still  westward  on  the  south  side  of  the  road  is  the  house  said 
to  have  been  built  for  the  miller  who  conducted  the  Bradford 
grist  mill.  The  house  stands  a  little  away  from  the  roadside,  and 
previous  to  1840  was  the  home  of  Elijah  Upton,  who  married 
first,  Alice  Putnam,  and  second,  Sally  Bradford,  daughter  of  the 
mill  owner.  It  became  afterwards  the  home  of  Salathiel  Lidson 
Wheeler,  and  is  now  the  property  of  his  widow,  who  lives  with 
her  daughter  Minnie,  the  wife  of  George  Blanchard,  in  Green- 
field. 

Fred  A.  Carkin  was  living  here  when  in  June,  1904,  he  be- 
came the  victim  of  a  mysterious  and  almost  fatal  accident.  He 
was  assisting  to  kill  and  bury  a  horse  when  a  bullet  glanced 
from  the  animal,  struck  Mr.  Carkin  in  the  chest,  and,  as 
was  supposed,  lodged  near  his  spinal  column.  Much  sym- 
pathy was  felt  for  him  and  his  family  of  wife  and  six  little 
children,  and  the  kindly  assistance  possible  was  extended 
generally.  He  lingered  long  on  the  boundary,  seemingly  be- 
tween life  and  death,  but  has  survived  till  now,  July,  1905,  and 
is  able  to  perform  some  light  kinds  of  labor. 

The  house  is  much  out  of  repair,  and  is  at  present  vacant. 

After  ascending  the  steep  hill  west  of  the  river,  one  comes  to 
the  residence  of  Mr.  Isaac  Lowe,  where  reside  also  Mr.  Jason 
Holt  and  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  John  Curtis.  The  buildings  are 
pleasantly  situated  and  comparatively  new.  On  this  place, 
about  a  century  ago,  lived  Thomas  Bradford,  son  of  Capt.  John 
Bradford  of  Amherst,  and  brother  of  Ephraim  Putnam  Bradford, 
the  long  time  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  New  Boston. 
Thomas  Bradford  came  here  from  Hancock  about  1803.  He 


516  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

was  the  owner  of  the  grist  mill  above  mentioned.  Both  he  and 
his  wife  died  on  the  place.  His  son,  James  C.,  lived  with  his 
parents,  and  received  the  place  for  the  service  rendered  them  in 
their  last  days.  James  afterward  sold  the  place  to  Andrew 
Tyler,  and  Mr.  Tyler  again  sold  it  to  Mr.  Charles  Tarbell,  his 
brother-in-law,  who  lived  on  the  place  several  years,  and  sold  to 
Mr.  Lowe,  the  present  owner. 

The  next  place  southwest  is  Mr.  Benjamin  Martin's.  He 
came  here  from  Hancock  about  three  years  ago,  and  has  again 
sold  his  place  and  is  about  to  leave  town. 

The  house  was  built  by  Mr.  James  C.  Bradford.  Others  who 
made  their  home  here  for  a  time  were  John  Emery,  William 
Young,  Charles  Young,  F.  H.  Hallett  and  Mr.  Martin. 

Again  ascending  a  steep  hill  to  a  kind  of  landing,  we  reach 
the  home  of  Mr.  Frank  Winn,  on  the  south  side  of  the  road. 
He  purchased  the  place  a  little  more  than  a  year  ago,  from 
Mrs.  Houghton  of  Boston,  who  had  owned  the  place  as  a  sum- 
mer residence  for  about  two  years.  She  bought  the  place  from 
Mr.  George  Murch,  who  had  owned  it  about  ten  years,  having 
bought  it  of  Mr.  Edward  Weston,  who  was  the  successor  of  his 
father-in-law,  Mr.  Artemas  Woodward.  Mr.  Woodward  built 
the  barn,  one  of  the  large,  fine  barns  of  the  town.  Mr.  Murch 
was  a  carpenter  and  made  additions  to  the  house  and  repaired 
it  much.  He  also  built  the  carriage  house. 

Walter  S.  Murdo  and  wife,  Hattie  D.  (Steele)  Murdo  lived 
here  a  short  time,  as  tenant  for  Mrs.  Houghton ;  as  did  also 
Mr.  Richard  Cram  and  wife. 

This  is  known  as  one  of  the  very  old  places  of  the  town, 
begun  by  John  Cram,  Jr.,  son  of  John,  the  first  settler,  and 
afterwards  owned  by  Benjamin  Cram.  It  is  said  that  three 
Benjamin  Crams  lived  here  at  one  time. 

Rising  another  steep,  westward  from  Frank  Winn's  place, 
one  comes  to  Mr.  Pettingill's  place.  He  married  Clara  N., 
daughter  of  the  late  Mr.  William  Ryerson,  March,  1897,  and 
has  since  been  a  resident  on  this  place. 

It  is  the  old  place  of  Ephraim  Putnam  who  came  here  from 
Danvers,  Mass.,  and  who,  to  distinguish  him  from  two  others 
of  the  same  name  in  the  town,  was  called  "  Danvers  Ephraim." 
He  owned  a  large  tract  of  land  in  L,yndeborough.  He  died 
May  u,  1821,  aged  76.  His  son  Ephraim  succeeded  him  in 
the  old  homestead.  He  was  known  as  Ephraim  2nd.  He 
married  Esther,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Pearson,  Jr.  They  were 


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the  parents  of  Mrs.  Joel  H.  Tarbell,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Esther  Putnam.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joel  H.  Tarbell  lived  on  this 
place  several  years  after  the  death  of  Mrs.  T's  parents,  and  sold 
the  place  to  William  N.  Ryerson,  whose  widow  still  lives  in  her 
old  home  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pettingill. 

Going  still  westward  the  next  place  is  that  of  Mr.  Azro  D. 
Cram.  The  house  was  built  by  Mr.  Jonathan  Putnam,  brother 
of  Ephraim  Putnam,  2nd,  for  his  son,  Jonathan  Putnam,  Jr. 

Still  westward  and  up  another  quite  steep  hill,  fifty  or  sixty 
rods  away,  is  the  home  of  Mr.  J.  C.  Miller.  This  was  first  the 
home  of  Jonathan  Putnam  above  named,  who  lived  and  died 
there.  His  son,  Ephraim  Hildreth  Putnam,  commonly  called 
"  Hildreth  "  Putnam,  lived  here  with  his  parents,  and  also  after 
their  death.  He  sold  the  place  to  Benjamin  F.  Tenney,  and  the 
latter  sold  it  to  Solomon  Cram,  the  father  of  Azro,  above  named. 
Mr.  Orin  Cram,  one  of  his  sons,  lived  here  with  his  father,  and 
after  his  father's  death  sold  the  place  to  Mr.  Benjamin  Gould, 
who  sold  to  Mr.  Miller,  its  present  owner,  and  went  to  Califor- 
nia. This  is  very  near  the  height  of  land  on  this  highway. 

After  passing  Mr.  Miller's,  a  person  will  descend  quite  a 
steep  way  and  then  come  to  a  level  spot  where  once  stood  a 
dwelling.  This  was  the  home  of  a  Mr.  Hodgeman,  who  mar- 
ried the  oldest  daughter  of  Mr.  Solomon  Cram.  Mr.  Hodgeman 
was  killed  by  lightning  here,  and  his  widow  afterwards  mar- 
ried Alban  Buttrick. 

The  next  building  on  that  road  is  the  schoolhouse  of  district 
No.  5.  The  road  passes  on  westward  a  short  distance  and  in- 
tersects with  the  road  which  runs  from  L,yndeborough  Centre 
past  the  Hildreth  place  toward  Temple. 

South  of  this  last  intersection  are  two  others  before  the  main 
road  reaches  the  Wilton  line.  The  first  turns  southwest  and 
passes  the  home  of  Mr.  Foster,  who  bought  the  place  about 
two  years  ago.  He  is  a  painter  and  paper-hanger  as  well  as  a 
farmer.  He  bought  of  Mrs.  Thomas  Dale.  Others  who  had  previ- 
ously lived  there  were  Samuel  K.  Russell,  George  H.  Blood 
and  John  Fletcher,  who  probably  built  the  house.  It  is  the  last 
house  before  reaching  the  Temple  line. 

An  eighth  of  a  mile  farther  south  a  lane  turns  to  the  right  to 
the  home  of  Marshall  B.  Richards.  The  place  was  occupied 
about  a  century  ago  by  Jedediah  Russell,  a  revolutionary  sol- 
dier, and  afterwards  by  his  son,  a  soldier  of  1812.  It  was  owned 


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later  by  Herman  Wright,  Edward  D.  Smith  and  its  present 
owner. 

On  the  southward  road  a  short  distance  away,  are  the  fine 
buildings  of  W.  W.  Burton,  the  last  before  reaching  the  Wilton 
line.  Here  at  the  southwest  corner  of  our  town  is  one  of  its  fine 
farms.  The  place  contains  273  acres  and  was  owned  by  the 
present  Mr.  B's  father,  Dexter  Burton,  in  his  day  prominent 
among  the  military  men  of  this  district. 

Commencing  again  at  E.  W.  Dolliver's  intersection  on  the 
way  towards  Greenfield,  the  first  house  is  that  of  Mr.  Sewall  M. 
Buck,  a  painter  and  paper-hanger  by  trade.  His  house  stands 
back  from  the  highway,  and  was  formerly  the  home  of  Capt. 
William  Button,  who  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  John  Beasom, 
and  they  brought  up  a  large  family  on  this  place.  The  Button 
heirs  sold  the  place  to  Israel  Cram,  and  he  bequeathed  it  to  the 
Congregational  church,  whose  agents,  N.  T.  Mclntire  and  Peter 
Clark,  sold  it  to  Mr.  Buck,  a  civil  war  veteran,  and  an  upright, 
industrious  citizen. 

Nearly  west  from  Mr.  Buck's  is  the  cellar  of  what  was 
known  as  the  ' '  The  Mountain  House, ' '  conducted  for  a  time  by 
Mark  B.  L,angdell,  who  was  succeeded  by  several  others.  Its 
reputation  was  none  of  the  best ;  and  when  it  burned  to  the 
ground,  there  was  very  little  lamentation  over  it  among  law- 
abiding  citizens,  it  is  said. 

Nearly  opposite  this,  between  the  small  cemetery  and  the  in- 
tersection of  "  the  gulf  road,"  is  the  house  known  as  the  Crosby 
house.  It  is  now  owned  by  Roy  Burton,  son  of  John  Hale  Bur- 
ton, and  son-in-law  of  Mr.  S.  M.  Buck.  It  is  at  present  the 
home  of  Mr.  Holden,  who  married  the  owner's  sister.  It  was 
previously  the  home  of  Abram  Wright,  John  Flint,  William 
Bolliver,  and  perhaps  others,  but  took  its  name  from  Benjamin 
Crosby,  a  worthy  and  highly  esteemed  citizen. 

About  half  a  mile  away  on  the  direct  road  to  Greenfield  is 
the  old  cellar  of  the  house  of  John  Stephenson,  who  appears  to 
have  been  the  son  of  the  John  Stephenson  who  called  the  first 
meeting  under  the  town  charter.  He  built  the  mill  on  Rocky 
River  which  has  now  disappeared,  though  traces  of  the  old  mill 
dam  remain.  The  place  is  thought  to  have  been  owned  previ- 
ously by  John  Woodward  and  Chase  Hadley. 

Next  on  the  Forest  road  towards  Greenfield,  and  standing 
far  back  from  it  on  the  right  hand  is  the  house  of  Mr.  George 
Newton.  The  old  road  was  crooked  and  went  near  the  house. 


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The  Forest  road  avoided  the  bends  and  left  the  houses  some- 
times inconveniently  situated.  It  was  formerly  the  home  of 
Harvey  M.  Newton,  Mark  Hadley  and  perhaps  Thomas  Bof- 
fee.  The  place  is  the  last  in  I^yndeborough  on  that  road.  For 
Thomas  Boffee  see  pp,  174  and  175. 

The  old  road  to  Peterborough,  after  crossing  the  bridge  near 
the  site  of  the  Stephenson  saw- mill,  passes  up  by  the  house  of 
Jotham  Sumner  Stephenson,  a  grandson  of  the  builder  of  the 
mill.  The  house  was  for  a  time  the  home  of  his  aunt,  Mary 
Stephenson.  He  bought  the  place  of  Josiah  Swinington,  who 
built  the  house  and  for  a  time  lived  in  it.  To  distinguish  him 
from  his  father,  Jotham,  he  is  known  as  Sumner  Stephenson. 

Passing  south  through  Mr.  Stephenson 's  door-yard,  twenty 
or  more  rods  away,  is  the  old  building  for  many  years  the  dwell- 
ing of  Job  and  Betsey  Swinington.  They  were  among  the  con- 
stituent members  of  the  Baptist  Church,  (p.  338.)  The  old 
building  is  no  longer  used  as  a  dwelling,  but  serves  as  a  poultry 
house. 

Passing  on  still  west  on  the  Peterborough  road  from  Mr. 
Stephenson's  there  is  the  old  cellar  of  a  small  house  built  by 
Olney  Butler  ;  and  next  is  a  house  now  occupied  by  Leon  Dra- 
per, a  son  of  the  late  James  Draper  of  Greenfield.  It  was  built 
for  a  harness  shop  by  Horace  Butler,  and  was  later  the  home 
of  Lucinda  Searles,  who  died  in  March,  1888.  The  house  has 
been  unoccupied  much  of  the  time  since,  till  Mr.  Draper  found 
a  home  in  it. 

The  last  house  in  I^yndeborough  on  this  old  road  is  that  occu- 
pied by  Mrs.  Emery,  a  widow,  and  a  sister  of  the  last-named 
I^eon  Draper.  Till  a  recent  day  this  place  was  the  property  of 
the  late  Dr.  James  Butler  of  Dempster,  a  son  of  Jacob  Butler 
and  grandson  of  Jonathan  Butler,  a  Revolutionary  hero.  (See 
Roll  p.  176.)  This  house  was  doubtless  built  by  Jonathan,  and 
was  in  the  hands  of  his  grandson  till  within  a  very  few  years. 
The  barn  connected  with  this  house  has  a  historic  interest.  It 
was  the  old  town  house  which  served  the  Congregational 
Church  as  their  third  meeting-house,  and  was  only  given  up 
after  they  built  their  present  church,  in  1837.  It  was  after- 
wards sold  to  Jacob  Butler,  who  took  it  down,  piecemeal,  and 
transferred  it  to  its  present  site.  The  mechanism  of  it  reflects 
no  whit  of  discredit  upon  its  builders. 

Between  the  bridge  over  Rocky  River  and  the  house  of  Mr. 
Sumner  Stephenson  a  road  turns  to  the  right,  which  is  a  con- 


520  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

tinuation  of  the  gulf  road.  There  is  on  it  but  a  single  dwelling 
before  the  Greenfield  line  is  reached,  and  this  has  been  vacant 
much  of  the  time  in  years  past.  It  belongs  to  Mr.  William 
Fish,  who  bought  it  of  Everett  Swinington,  its  builder.  Ever- 
ett and  Josiah  were  sons  of  Job  and  Betsey  Swinington. 

This  accounts  for  nearly  all  the  places  on  the  west  side  of  the 
town  whose  owners'  post-office  address  was  South  I^yndeborough 
until  Rural  Free  Delivery  was  established,  March  i,  1901. 

We  return  again  to  the  village  and  commence  at  the  school- 
house  in  District  No.  3.  The  lot  was  given,  as  we  have  heard, 
for  a  schoolhouse.  The  old  schoolhouse  was  burned,  and  this 
present  house  has  been  its  successor  since  about  the  year  1859, 
and  was  then  reported  by  the  superintending  committee,  Rev. 
E.  B.  Claggett,  as  "an  excellent  house."  But  that  was  long 
ago. 

One  of  the  five  ancient  dwellings  of  the  village  was  the  par- 
sonage. It  was  built  by  Daniel  Putnam,  Esq.,  previous  to  the 
year  1800.  That  year,  on  the  occasion  of  a  military  muster,  he 
was  licensed  to  keep  a  tavern  for  forty-eight  hours.  The  builder 
of  the  house  was  a  carpenter  by  trade  and  lived  in  this  house, 
as  did  also  his  son,  David  Johnson,  commonly  called  Johnson 
Putnam.  Johnson  was  for  a  time  organist  at  the  centre  church. 
The  Baptist  Church  held  its  meeting  in  this  house  when  the 
council  convened  which  decided  upon  its  recognition. 

After  Squire  Daniel's  death,  the  house  had  many  tenants. 
To  name  them  in  order  is  hardly  to  be  expected.  We  give  the 
names  obtained,  viz.:  William  Holt,  called  "honest  Billy," 
the  first  merchant,  after  selling  his  store  lived  there  ;  Ezra  Dane, 
also  a  merchant ;  George  W.  Hutchinson,  the  Christian  minis- 
ter ;  William  Duncklee,  Joseph  H.  Ford,  Morris  Emery  and 
William  Young,  of  whom  it  was  bought  for  a  parsonage  in 
1876.  Since  then  all  the  pastors  of  the  Baptist  Church,  S.  B. 
Macomber,  William  R.  Warner,  H.  G.  Hubbard,  Gaylord  B. 
Smith  and  D.  Donovan  have  lived  in  it. 

The  nearest  neighbor  east  of  the  parsonage  is  Mr.  C.  H. 
Tarbell,  son  of  C.  F.  Tarbell,  deceased,  and  grandson  of  the 
late  Capt.  Joel  H.  Tarbell.  The  house  was  built  by  J.  Alonzo 
Carkin  in  1893.  After  occupying  it  a  short  time,  he  moved 
out  of  town.  It  was  then  let  for  a  time  to  Dustin  Wheeler,  and 
was  afterwards  purchased  by  Walter  S.  Tarbell,  who  sold  it  to 
his  brother,  C.  H.  The  latter  added  the  two-story  ell  part  and 
the  neat  veranda  at  front  and  east  side. 


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Farther  up  the  road  on  its  north  side  is  the  homestead  of  Dea- 
con David  Putnam.  The  house  was  built  by  Deacon  David, 
who  died  in  1870.  David  Putnam,  his  son,  made  alterations  in 
it  and  added  to  it,  but  a  few  years  ago  arranged  to  have  the 
place  carried  on  by  his  eldest  son,  Algernon  W.  Putnam.  The 
latter,  in  1903,  greatly  enlarged  the  house  by  building  the 
two-story  central  part,  which,  with  the  western  wing,  he  oc- 
cupies, while  his  parents  reside  in  the  eastern  part. 

Still  farther  east,  on  the  brow  of  the  long  hill,  south  of  the 
old  road  to  the  centre,  is  the  neat,  well-kept  cottage  of  Mr. 
Lawrence  of  Cambridge,  Mass.  From  the  broad  veranda  added 
by  Mr.  Lawrence  to  this  fine  cottage,  may  be  obtained  one  of  the 
broadest,  pleasantest  views  afforded  by  any  point  in  our  town. 
To  the  we.st  and  southwest  are  the  grand  old  mountains,  and  to 
the  south  are  the  Wilton  highlands,  cut  by  the  turbulent  Souhe- 
gan,  winding  its  course  through  Milford  and  Amherst  toward 
the  valley  of  the  Merrimack  and  the  sea. 

Mr.  L,.  bought  the  place  from  Capt.  Mclntire  of  Hyde  Park, 
Mass.,  who  had  owned  it  a  few  years.  He  got  it  of  C.  Henry 
Holt,  whose  second  wife  was  Hattie  L/owe,  daughter  of  Mr. 
John  Lowe,  and  whose  only  daughter,  Effie  Holt,  was  sole  heir 
to  the  property.  Mr.  Holt  took  care  of  his  wife's  parents  in 
their  closing  days,  and  had  charge  of  the  estate  on  behalf  of  his 
daughter  Effie,  who  received  the  avails  of  the  sale  in  due  time. 
Mr.  Lowe  had  purchased  of  Lorenzo  Holt,  a  carriage  painter, 
who  was  a  brother  of  C.  Henry,  and  removed  to  Peterborough. 
He  bought  the  house  from  the  builders  of  it,  John  F.  and 
Harvey  Holt. 

Nearest  neighbor  east  of  Mr.  Lawrence  is  Mr.  E.  H.  Putnam, 
whose  place  is  doubtless  one  of  the  oldest  in  town.  Who  built 
the  house  does  not  seem  to  be  known  to  the  family  occupying  it 
or  to  our  oldest  inhabitants.  At  some  point  on  this  place,  John 
Cram,  so  far  as  present  evidence  indicates,  the  first  settler  in 
Lyndeborough,  built  his  home  in  1736,  or  thereabouts.  Tradi- 
tion credits  him  with  having  command  of  the  garrison-house,  or 
fort,  a  command  which  seems  to  have  been  ^transferred  to  his 
son-in-law,  Ephraim  Putnam,  after  he  sold  him  the  place. 
Ephraim  Putnam  took  possession  in  1753,  the  year  that  the 
town  took  the  name  of  Lyndeborough.  The  house  in  which  he 
first  lived  here  was  destroyed  by  fire,  but  he  built  a  new  house. 
Neither  the  date  of  the  fire  nor  of  the  erection  of  new  house  has 
been  positively  ascertained.  Valuable  records  are  said  to  have 


522  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

been  consumed  in  the  old  house.  It  was  in  the  house  of 
Ephraim  Putnam  that  "the  first  meeting  in  L,yndeborough  in 
the  interests  of  a  settled  ministry  "  was  held  Sept.  3,  1756.  The 
new  house  was,  very  likely,  that  in  which  his  son,  Ensign 
David,  lived,  who  was  also  deacon  of  the  church  at  the  centre. 
It  seems  to  have  been  Ensign  David  who,  after  attending  a 
council  called  for  the  ordination  of  a  pastor  which  refused  to  or- 
dain on  account  of  unsound  doctrinal  views,  said,  "We  have 
had  a  flustration  instead  of  an  ordination." 

Col.  Timothy  Putnam,  a  son  of  Ensign  David,  also  seems  to 
have  lived  in  it  for  a  time.  Joshua  Sargent  also  owned  the 
place  once,  and  lived  here  with  his  daughter  Ruthy  and  her 
husband,  Captain  Israel  Putnam,  and  here  he  ended  his  days. 
The  house  stood  on  the  corner,  nearly  in  front  of  what  is  now 
Mr.  Lawrence's  summer  cottage,  until  July  23,  1883,  when  it 
was  torn  down,  and  found  lined  with  brick  between  the  boards 
and  lathing  of  the  lower  story,  perhaps  both  a  reminder  and 
successor  of  the  old  fort  of  Indian  war  times. 

A  few  rods  in  front  of  this  house  a  road  turned  sharply  to  the 
west  and  passed  on  to  the  house  of  David  Putnam,  Jr.,  a 
son  of  Ensign  David  Putnam.  David,  Jr.,  built  the  old 
house  on  what  is  now  the  D.  P.  Hartshorn  place.  He  sold 
out  to  John  Hartshorn,  David  P.'s  father,  whose  wife  was 
Susanna  B.  Putnam,  and  then  built  the  house  where  the  present 
Deacon  Putnam  and  his  son  Algernon  live.  After  John  Harts- 
horn took  possession,  he  built  the  "  Hillside  House,"  and  was 
for  many  years  a  thrifty  and  prosperous  farmer.  This  is  said  to 
be  the  first  place  in  Lyndeborough  to  entertain  summer  board- 
ers, and  the  house  has  been  filled  many  seasons  with  influential 
and  honored  guests. 

A  short  distance  east  of  the  above  house  is  the  home  of  Mr. 
F.  B.  Richards,  a  brother-in-law  of  Mr.  D.  P.  Hartshorn.  Mr. 
R.  built  here  soon  after  his  marriage  to  Miss  lyizzie  Hartshorn, 
and  considerate  of  the  filial  spirit  of  his  wife,  who  wished  to  live 
near  her  excellent  mother,  concurred  with  her  in  locating  near 
her  old  home.  Mr.  R.  and  family  have  been  the  sole  occupants 
of  this  place,  including  Mrs.  R.'s  portion  of  her  father's  estate. 

Returning  again  to  the  intersection  of  the  road,  to  the  place 
once  fixed  upon  as  the  centre  of  old  Salem-Canada  township, 
where  was  the  home  of  John  Cram,  the  first  settler,  we  may 
delay  a  few  moments  for  a  glance  at  his  family  and  connections. 
Whether  by  purpose  or  accident,  the  estates  of  his  children  seem 


REAL  ESTATE  523 

remarkably  near  his  first  home.  It  is  quite  probable  this  was 
the  house  of  Kphraim  Putnam  which  was  burned.  His  oldest 
son,  Capt.  Jonathan,  lived  over  the  hill  southeast  of  Mr.  I^uther 
Cram's,  on  what  is  known  as  the  John  A.  Putnam  place.  His 
daughter  Phebe  married  Moses  Stiles,  who  lived  southeast  of' 
his  home,  and  almost  within  hailing  distance.  His  son  Joseph 
owned  the  place  now  known  as  the  Emery  Holt  place.  His 
daughter  Huldah  married  Ephraim  Woodward,  and  lived 
toward  the  north  part  of  the  town.  His  son  John  settled  in  Wil- 
ton, where  Ephraim  Putnam  first  settled,  almost  in  sight  of  his 
father's  home.  It  looks  as  though  he  might  have  exchanged 
places  with  his  sister's  husband,  with  his  father  as  intermediary. 
Sarah  Cram  married  Ephraim  Putnam  and  came  back  to  live  in 
the  old  home.  Elizabeth,  twin  sister  of  Sarah,  married  Jona- 
than Chamberlain,  Sr.,  who  received  seventy-five  acres  of  lot  41, 
for  taking  care  of  Joseph  Cram  and  giving  him  Christian  burial. 
The  most  likely  conjecture  about  the  building  of  the  house  in 
which  Edwin  H.  Putnam  now  lives  is  that  it  was  built  by  Jona- 
than Chamberlain,  above  named.  The  house  seems  to  be  on  lot 
41  and  on  the  part  of  it  deeded  to  him.  Benjamin  Cram,  also  a 
twin  son,  settled  in  I^yndeborough,  probably  on  the  place  where 
Percy  H.  Putnam  now  lives.  Thus  the  Crams,  Stiles',  Wood- 
wards, Putnams,  Chamberlains  and  others  whom  we  cannot  now 
name,  were  drawn  together  and  united  with  each  other,  and 
large  sections  of  their  estates  were  not  only  in  plain  view,  but 
also  widely  contiguous.  Thinking  then  of  the  central  point 
again,  the  oldest  house,  unquestionably,  on  Putnam  Hill  at 
present  is  Mr.  E.  H.  Putnam's. 

Many  years  ago  a  very  aged  man  called  at  the  place  that  he 
might  once  more  see  the  home  of  his  early  days.  It  was 
a  Mr.  Herrick  who  had  gone  west  and  returned  to  visit  his 
native  place.  Here  lived  Timothy  Thurston  Putnam,  who  was 
Albert  Hardy's  successor,  and  here  at  an  earlier  day  lived  John 
Carleton.  A  complete  list  does  not  seem  at  this  date  attainable. 

About  northeast  from  Mr.  E.  H.  Putnam's,  and  in  plain  sight 
from  the  dooryard  is  the  home  of  Mr.  Emery  Holt  and  also  of 
his  eldest  son,  Harvey  and  family.  The  main  part  of  the 
house  faces  the  road,  and  is  two-story  in  front.  Extending 
back  from  the  rear  of  the  two-story  part  is  an  older  part  whic 
is  one-story,  and  connects  with  the  other  buildings.  A  structure 
older  than  either  of  these  was  taken  away  to  give  place  for  the 
present  one.  This  was  built  by  John  F.  Holt  who  lived  here 


524  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

himself,  and  whose  father  lived  in  the  older  part.  Joseph 
Cram,  a  son  of  John,  the  first  settler,  is  said  to  have  owned  the 
place  first.  It  seems  to  have  been  owned  later  by  both  Daniel 
and  John  Chamberlain,*  who  were  probably  grandchildren  of 
Elizabeth  (Cram)  Chamberlain,  Joseph's  sister,  who,  with  her 
husband,  had  the  care  of  her  brother  in  his  last  days,  and  aided 
in  giving  him  "  Christian  burial."  It  joins  the  Manuel  place 
on  the  southwest,  and  in  the  pasture  southeast  of  the  house  is 
found  a  very  ancient  and  almost  obliterated  cellar  hole.  Mr. 
Emery  Holt  bought  the  place  of  his  kinsman,  John  Fletcher 
Holt,  and  has  lived  here  many  years. 

About  a  half-mile  northeast  of  Mr.  Emery  Holt's  the  road 
divides,  the  right  hand  branch  going  toward  the  meeting-house 
and  the  left  hand  going  very  nearly  north  towards  the  Stephen- 
son  homestead,  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Willis  J.  Stephenson. 
This  name  seems  to  be  variously  pronounced  and  spelled,  as  if 
Stimson  and  Stinson.  The  schedule  attached  to  the  Masonian 
Charter,  and  the  charter  itself,  each,  contains  the  name  in  one  of 
these  forms.  From  these  records  it  is  evident  that  David  Stinson 
or  Stimson  owned  a  share  in  the  town,  numbered,  Home  L,ot  48  ; 
together  with  Second  Division  I^ots  58  and  59,  before  it  was 
chartered  under  the  name  of  L,yndeborough,  that  is,  before  Dec. 
5,  1753.1  The  Rev.  Frank  G.  Clark  wrote,  that  "  David 
Stephenson  and  wife  settled  on  the  farm  still  called  by  that 
name,  and  owned  early  in  the  history  of  the  town  the  lots  north 
and  northwest. "J  Mr.  Stephenson's  house. was  built  by  his 
father,  the  late  Jonathan  Stephenson,  who  passed  away  in  his 
97th  year  ;  long  a  prominent  man  in  the  business  and  counsels 
of  the  town,  selectman,  town  clerk,  overseer  of  the  poor  and 
town  representative.  He  built  on  the  site  of  the  former  house 
which  burned  down,  and  in  which  many  of  his  valuable  papers 
were  destroyed. 

Retracing  our  way  back  to  the  road  which  passed  the  furnace 
and  the  cemetery,  the  next  dwelling  is  that  of  Mr.  Rufus 
Chamberlain,  south  from  the  cemetery.  Mr.  Chamberlain  built 
the  house  in  which  he  lives.  It  stands  on  the  farm  which  con- 
tained 75  acres,  deeded  to  his  great  grandfather,  Jonathan 
Chamberlain,  by  the  Cram  heirs,  on  condition  of  his  supporting 
his  brother-in-law,  Joseph  Cram,  and  giving  him  "  Christian 

*  The  late  Mrs.  S.  P.  Hartshorn  testified  that  "John  Chamberlain  made  nails  at  the 
iron  furnace  "  before  Henry  and  James  Cram  2nd.  carried  it  on.  He  was  probably  the 
maker  of  those  referred  to  on  page  457. 

t  See  Charter,  p.  48,  and  Schedule,  p.  53.  \  S-C.,  p.  27. 


REAL  ESTATE  525 

burial."  An  older  house  had  been  removed  from  this  site  to 
make  place  for  the  new  one.  In  the  old  house  had  lived  Henry 
Cram,  who  owned  and  operated  the  furnace,  and  also  his  son 
Peter,  who  was  a  capable  man  and  an  honored  citizen.  The 
latter  sold  his  place  and  later  went  West  to  live.  It  was  after- 
wards sold  to  Mr.  Chamberlain  who  now  has  passed  his  eighty- 
sixth  milestone,  and  is  honored  and  respected  by  his  fellow-citi- 
zens. 

The  next  place  is  Mr.  Luther  Cram's.  Here  he  has  culti- 
vated his  ancestral  acres  and  built  the  fine  house  in  which  he 
lives.  It  stands  on  the  brow  of  a  broad  hill  which  overlooks  the 
South  village  nestling  in  the  basin  to  the  westward.  It  is  reached 
from  the  west  by  a  beautiful  avenue  shaded  by  fine  maple  trees 
of  his  own  planting,  adding  a  special  charm  to  the  place  of  his 
nativity.  The  view  obtained  from  his  summer  house,  a  little  to 
the  south  of  his  dwelling,  is  unsurpassed  even  among  the  many 
grand  and  pleasing  prospects  of  the  town.  He  is  now  one  of 
the  sturdy,  aged  men  of  our  town,  clear-headed  and  liberal 
minded.  Though  he  looks  somewhat  old,  "  his  age  is  as  a  lusty 
winter,  frosty  but  kindly."  He  is  one  of  the  history  committee, 
and  has  assisted  much  in  securing  the  publication  of  the  history 
of  his  native  town.  He  has  served  the  town  in  all  the  principal 
offices  within  its  gift. 

The  place  next  south  of  Mr.  L,.  Cram's  is  Mr.  Elbert  Barrow's. 
Mr.  Barrow  is  a  son-in-law  of  the  late  Mr.  E.  J.  Hardy,  and 
came  here  from  the  West  about  three  years  ago,  and  bought  the 
place  on  which  Mr.  Charles  Carr  had  lived.  The  latter  bought 
of  Mr.  Nello  Tarbell,  who  had  lived  on  it  about  a  year.  It 
had  been  sold  to  him  by  Albert  Cram  of  the  fifth  generation 
from  the  first  settler.  The  house  was  built  by  James  Cram, 
2nd,  Albert's  father.  Mr.  Barrow,  since  coming  here  to  live, 
has  added  to  his  estate,  which  is  partly  in  Wilton,  about  fifty 
acres  more  of  Wilton  territory. 

The  next  place  going  east  was  formerly  that  of  Uriah  Cram, 
a  Revolutionary  minute-man,  and  grandson  of  the  first  settler. 
The  cellar  of  his  old  house  which  was  two  story  (see  Revolution- 
ary roll,  p.  182),  is  but  partially  covered  by  the  new  building 
erected  by  the  late  John  A.  Putnam,  whose  widow  now  occupies 
it.  She  was  Louise  Cram,  daughter  of  Joseph,  and  grand- 
daughter of  Uriah  Cram.  Here  her  sister,  Harriet  Russell, 
ended  her  days  in  November,  1900.  Her  grandchildren,  the 
Misses  Bertha  and  Susie  Chenery,  have  here  a  home  with  her. 


526  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

The  barn  connected  with  this  house  covers  a  portion  of  the 
cellar  of  the  old  house  of  Capt.  Jonathan  Cram,  the  eldest  son 
of  John,  who  came  here  from  Massachusetts  soon  -after  his 
father  came.  He  was  a  prominent  man  in  town.  Five  sons 
and  two  daughters  were  settled  in  Lyudeborough,  Jonathan 
who  later  lived  in  Wilton,  David,  Jacob,  Solomon  and  Uriah. 
The  daughters,  Elizabeth  and  Rachel,  married  respectively, 
John  Carkin  and  Ephraim  Putnam  3rd.  Jonathan  is  said  to 
have  served  in  the  French  and  Indian  war  before  coming  to 
Salem-Canada. 

The  place  east  of  his  is  known  as  the  Ellinwood  place. 
Samuel  Ellinwood  lived  in  school  district  number  three  in  1808, 
and  Samuel  Ellingwood  and  Ira  S.  Ellinwood  were  reported  in 
1819  as  having  produced  certificates  that  they  were  "  members 
of  the  Baptist  Society."  (See  page  337.)  Samuel  is  reported 
to  have  lived  to  a  great  age  and  died  on  this  place.  There  re- 
mains only  the  old  cellar  now  to  show  where  his  house  once 
stood . 

Southeast  of  this  place  near  the  Wilton  line  was  the  place 
called  the  "Russell  Place."  The  Russell  who  lived  there  was 
probably  Jedediah,  Jr.,  as  given  in  the  tax  list  of  school  district 
number  three  in  1808.  There  is  now  no  dwelling  on  the  place  ; 
but  the  old  cellar  shows  where  it  once  stood. 

PLACES   IN    DISTRICT   NO.    6. 

As  one  passes  out  of  school  district  No.  3,  towards  district 
No.  6,  the  first  habitation  reached  there  is  that  of  A.  A. 
Melendy.  This  is  another  of  the  old  places  of  the  town.  On 
it  lived  Jacob,  son  of  Jonathan  Cram.  He  was  one  of  the 
petitioners  for  the  provincial  charter  in  1763,  married  Isabel 
Hutchinson,  and  was  prominent  in  trying  to  have  the  meeting 
house  nearer  the  settlers  in  that  part  of  the  town.  This  re- 
sulted in  his  having  the  preaching  at  his  house  a  fourth  of  the 
time.  (See  page  282.)  His  successor  on  the  place  was  his 
son-in-law,  Andrew  Harwood,  and  then  his  grandson,  Andrew 
Harwood,  Jr.,  Dexter  K.  Holt  and  A.  A.  Meleudy. 

Mr.  Melendy's  next  neighbor  towards  Milford  is  Mr.  E.  E. 
Ivowe,  His  predecessor  was  Daniel  Austin  and  his  again,  Per- 
sons Holt.  Before  Mr.  Holt  was  Samuel  Hartshorn,  whose 
father  was  John  Hartshorn,  born  in  I,yndeborough  March  26, 
1756,  married  Sarah  Batchelder,  born  in  the  same  town,  June 
26,  1762.  This  was  the  original  Hartshorn  place. 


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The  next  place  east  was  the  Eben  Batchelder  home.  He  is 
said  to  have  come  from  South  Reading,  Mass.,  where  he  married 
Betsey  Dix.  He  seems  to  have  been  the  father-in-law  of  John 
Hartshorn  whose  farm  adjoined  his.  Mr.  Batchelder's  succes- 
sors were  Charles  Harvey  Holt  and  William  P.  Holt. 

The  place  of  Mr.  George  W.  Parker  is  the  next  on  the  road  ; 
and  many  think  it  the  most  famous  fruit  farm  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, if  not  in  New  England.  He  made  the  cultivation  of 
fruit  a  specialty,  and  by  his  success  in  this  line  has  given  not 
only  his  own  townsmen  but  those  of  other  towns  and  of  a  wide 
section  of  the  country  a  genuine  surprise.  He  raises  apples, 
peaches  and  plums,  and  the  finer  varieties  of  these  and  his 
harvests  in  bearing  years  are  rich  and  remunerative.  The 
skilful  management  of  his  place  is  quite  a  marvel,  and  does 
credit  to  the  owner  and  to  his  town. 

On  this  place  is  also  a  mineral  spring  whose  medicinal  proper- 
ties in  many  cases  produce  marked  results.  Its  medicinal 
property  "  is  due  to  three  things:  its  carbonate  of  magnesia, 
its  great  purity,  and  the  suitable  proportions  of  its  constitu- 
ents." The  carbonate  of  magnesia  which  seems  to  be  the  most 
prominent  constituent  is  described  as  "antacid,  laxative  and 
antilithic." 

Mr.  Parker's  predecessors  on  this  farm  were,  probably,  Ed- 
ward Bevins,  Jr.,  a  Revolutionary  hero,  who  is  said  to  have 
been  the  pioneer  settler  on  or  near  that  place.  (See  Old  Deeds 
No.  15,  p.  483.)  The  section  of  the  town  in  which  this  farm 
lies  was  in  the  early  days  known  as  Bevins'  corner.  In  this 
connexion  a  story  of  feminine  prowess  is  told  which  seems  too 
good  to  miss.  "  Sally  Bevens  was  accustomed  to  assist  her 
neighbors  at  hay-making  and  harvesting.  And  once,  on  her 
return  home,  she  heard  her  pig  squealing  vociferously.  Satis- 
fied as  to  the  cause  of  it,  she  seized  a  good,  stout  fire-brand  and 
sped  to  the  rescue.  She  overhauled  the  burdened  foe,  engaged 
him  with  her  brand,  and  though  his  claws  cruelly  tore  the  flesh 
from  her  shoulder  and  upper  arm,  so  that  she  carried  the  marks 
to  her  grave,  she  yet  proved  victor,  routed  the  bear  and  saved 
her  pork. ' ' 

Such  was  the  pluck  shown  in  many  of  our  early  settlements. 
Others  who  succeeded  in  possession  of  that  place  were  David 
Perham,  Josiah  M.  Parker  and  its  present  owner,  who  appears 
to  have  surpassed  all  others  in  rendering  it  productive. 

Mr.  Harry  R.  Chase  lives  on  a  part  of  what  is  called  the  old 


528  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Blanchard  place.  The  first  of  that  name  on  it  was,  perhaps, 
Lieutenant  Jotham.  His  successors  were  Asa,  and  Asa,  Jr.,  the 
father  of  Mrs.  G.  W.  Parker,  Mrs.  Chase  and  also  Mrs.  G.  G. 
Hatch.  Mr.  Chase  is  living  on  what  has  been  called  the  Asa 
Blanchard  farm. 

The  next  place  is  the  home  of  Mr.  Hodgen.  Before  him,  it 
was  that  of  Charles  Savage.  He  was  preceded  by  Charles  and 
H.  M.  Tarbell  who  bought  of  Ezra  F.  Melzar.  The  latter 
married  Susan  E.,  daughter  of  James  Pearson  who  came  to 
I/yndeborough  in  1829  and  removed  to  Milford  in  1856,  where 
he  died,  1879.  Mr.  Pearson  left  the  farm  soon  after  the  mar- 
riage of  his  daughter  to  Mr.  Melzar,  and  the  latter  sold  it  and 
removed  to  Milford  about  nine  years  later.  The  place  is  known 
as  the  Pearson  place. 

The  McAllister  place  is  the  name  by  which  Mr.  Elmer  B. 
Parker's  farm  is  now  known.  Mr.  Parker  married  L/ula  E. 
McAllister  whose  father,  George  S.,  died  March  22,  1904,  and 
the  young  people  are  now  carrying  on  the  place.  The  place 
was  sold  to  Mr.  McAllister  by  Dexter  Kendall  Holt.  Its  present 
owner,  like  his  father,  George  W.  Parker,  is  a  fruit  grower,  and 
rivals  his  father's  skill  in  its  cultivation. 

Next  to  this  is  what  is  known  as  the  Emerson  Batchelder 
place.  It  has  been  for  many  years  the  home  of  his  son,  John 
C.,  who  made  a  specialty  of  grape  culture,  and  raised  great 
quantities  and  wonderfully  fine  samples  of  that  fruit.  He  de- 
parted this  life  Aug.  n,  1904,  and  his  son  George  is  continuing 
the  work  of  his  famed  father.  On  the  place  are  two  sets  of 
buildings,  and  it  has  been  justly  noted  for  its  excellent  grapes. 

The  next  house  is  the  last  in  Lyndeborough  before  reaching 
the  Milford  line,  and  belongs  to  Mrs.  Charles  L,eroy  Hutchinson. 
The  place  was  previously  owned  by  Israel  Porter  Holt,  and  was 
then  called  the  "  Porter  Holt  "  place.  Before  that  it  was  owned 
by  Milo  Robbins,  and  earlier  still  by  Russell  Robbins. 

Returning  again  to  the  road  which  goes  from  Mr.  Harry  R. 
Chase's  to  Wilton,  a  small  dwelling  near  Mr.  Chase's  is  the 
home  of  Mr.  J.  W.  Chute.  David  Perham  has  been  named  as 
the  builder. 

On  the  road  from  Perham  corner  to  Wilton,  the  first  turn  to 
the  right  leads  to  the  late  Mr.  Harvey  Perham's  place,  now  the 
home  of  his  widow  and  youngest  son  and  daughter.  The  .son 
is  carrying  on  the  place,  which  seems  to  have  been  part  of  the 
old  Perham  homestead.  The  succession  traced  back  seems  to 


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be  John,  Harvey,  John,  Oliver  2nd,  Oliver,  revolutionary  hero. 
(See  Roll,  pp.  194,  195.) 

A  short  distance  northwest  of  the  Harvey  Perham  place  is 
that  of  John  A.  Bullard.  It  was  previously  owned  by  Charles 
Tarbell,  whose  predecessor  was  Jonathan  Mclntire.  It  was  the 
home  of  John  Perham,  father  of  Harvey. 

Farther  along  on  that  road  is  the  Joseph  Perham  place.  Mr. 
Perhain  is  said  to  have  been  a  large  man,  and  to  have  worn  more 
than  a  number  twelve  boot.  He  was  a  brother  of  John  above 
named.  His  place  was  the  last  on  that  road  before  reaching 
the  Wilton  line.  His  successor  was  his  son  Rodney.  After  him 
came  Sylvester  Small.  After  Mr.  Small's  day  the  place  was 
divided  into  two  parts ;  one  of  these  was  purchased  by  Mr. 
Baldwin,  postmaster  at  Wilton,  who  has  built  a  fine  house  on  it, 
and  the  other  part,  south  of  the  road,  was  bought  by  Mr. 
George  M.  Hartshorn,  who  owned  it  a  few  years  and  then  sold 
it  to  D.  Whiting  &  Co.,  of  Wilton. 

Returning  to  the  Wilton  road  by  way  of  Harvey  Perham's, 
the  nearest  place  is  that  of  his  late  brother,  Otis,  who  was  un- 
married. Mr.  Albert  Foster  is  the  present  owner,  and  occu- 
pying the  house  with  him  is  his  son-in-law,  Fred  H.  Tarbell. 

The  last  place  in  L,yndeborough  on  this  Wilton  road  is  that 
built  by  Mr.  Edward  Powers,  deceased.  Mr.  Fred  H.  Tarbell 
bought  the  place  and  lived  there  until  after  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Foster,  his  wife's  mother,  when  he  moved  his  family  into  the 
home  of  Mrs.  Foster's  father. 

DISTRICTS   NO.    ONE,    TWO,    POUR,    SEVEN   AND   EIGHT. 
BY   J.    A.    WOODWARD. 

It  would  be  impossible  at  this  date  in  the  history  of  the  town 
to  give  an  absolutely  correct  record  of  the  transfers  of  the  farms. 
We  say  ' '  impossible ' '  because  in  many  cases  the  deeds  of  the 
early  transfers  were  never  recorded,  and  in  other  cases  were  not 
recorded  until  twenty  or  more  years  after  the  transactions  took 
place;  and  tradition  is  not  a  very  safe  basis  upon  which  to 
build  a  record. 

We  submit  the  following  record  as  only  approximately  correct. 
Much  of  the  information  was  secured  while  trying  to  "climb 
the  family  trees  "  of  the  people  of  the  town  ;  from  transcripts  of 
records  at  Exeter  and  Nashua  made  by  John  H.  Goodrich,  Esq., 
and  from  tradition.  Except  in  a  few  instances  no  attempt  was 
made  to  record  the  changes  in  ownership  of  abandoned  farms. 


530  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEB ORO UGH 

DISTRICT  NO.    I. 

The  Ordway  place. — John  Ordway  first  built  here.  Timothy 
Ordway,  Timothy  Ordway,  Jr.,  Walter  Ordway,  Amos  W. 
Barden,  Hadley  Bros.,  Derastus  Emery,  Frank  E.  Cummings. 
Present  house  built  by  Amos  W.  Barden. 

The  Moses  Chenery  place. —  This  was  a  part  of  the  Ordway 
farm.  John  Ordway,  Enoch  Ordway,  Moses  Chenery,  Moses 
Chenery  heirs,  Charles  J.  Cummings. 

The  Hadley  place. — Joshua  Hadley  was  the  first  settler  on 
this  land.  The  farm  has  always  been  kept  in  the  Hadley 
family.  Chase  Hadley,  Franklin  Hadley,  I,evi  P.  Hadley, 
Mrs.  Minerva  Hadley. 

The  Amos  Pratt  place. —  This  place  was  also  a  part  of  the 
original  Ordway  estate.  The  name  of  the  first  builder  on  the 
land  is  unknown.  Amos  Pratt,  John  J.  Balch,  David  G. 
Dickey,  Mrs.  Minerva  Hadley. 

The  "Old  Town  Farm."  —  Eleazer  Woodward  took  a  deed 
of  this  land  from  Robert  Hooper,  Aug.  10,  1770,  and  was  the 
first  settler  and  builder  thereon.  Eleazer  Woodward,  Jr.,  town 
of  L,yndeborough  for  fifty  years  as  town  farm,  George  E. 
Spalding,  Martin  Whitney,  Milford  Five  Cents  Savings  Bank, 
Jacob  A.  Woodward.  The  town  remodeled  the  house  but  re- 
tained a  part  of  the  original  Woodward  building. 

The  Nathan  Richardson  place. —  Robert  Badger  was  the  first 
settler  on  this  land.*  Nathan  Richardson,  Harry  J.  Richard- 
son. 

The  Isaac  P.  French  place. —  William  Barren  took  a  deed  of 
this  land  from  Rev.  Sewall  Goodridge,  Sept.  28,  1768.  Mr. 
Barren  built  and  kept  a  tavern  here.  Isaac  P.  French,  Oliver 
Bixby,  Samuel  Jones,  Dexter  Holt,  George  T.  Woodward, 
Charles  Keyes,  Frank  B.  Tay. 

The  Fiske  place. —  This  land  was  chosen  by  the  Rev.  Sewall 
Goodridge,  according  to  the  terms  of  his  settlement.  He  was 
the  first  settler  and  built  the  present  house.  Israel  H.  Good- 
ridge, Ebenezer  Fiske,  Ebenezer  Fisk  heirs,  Fred  Hill  (tenant), 
William  E.  Fiske,  William  C.  Wilder. 

James  H.  Karr  place. —  Dea.  David  Badger  was  the  first 
settler  here.  He  took  a  deed  of  the  land  from  Samuel  Wells, 
Dec.  4,  1771.  The  deed  called  for  100  acres  of  land  "exclu- 

*  There  must  have  been  a  transfer  between  Badger  and  Richardson  but  of  this  we 
can  get  no  record. 


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sive"  of  a  pond.     Sarah  Badger,  William  J.  Herrick,  James 
H.  Karr. 

The  Manahan  place. —  The  name  of  the  person  who  first 
built  here  is  unknown.  The  land  was  originally  a  part  of  the 
Dea.  David  Badger  farm.  Samuel  T.  Manahan,  James  Grant, 
Daniel  Woodward,  Jr.,  Cyrus  Jaquith,  M.  C.  Clough,  Percy 
Goddard,  Charles  D.  Riley. 

The  Herman  A.  Walker  place. —  Dr.  Israel  Herrick  built  the 
house  now  standing  on  this  farm.  Dr.  Nathan  Jones,  Benjamin 
Jones,  Nathaniel  Jones,  Samuel  Jones,  Julien  E.  Wright, 
Herman  A.  Walker.  Mr.  Walker  remodeled  the  house  and 
built  the  new  barn  in  1898. 

The  Dr.  Benjamin  Jones  place. —  Dr.  Benjamin  Jones  built 
the  brick  house  standing  on  this  land.  It  was  the  first  and 
only  house  ever  built  on  the  place.  The  splendid  elm  trees 
standing  in  front  of  the  house  were  set  out  as  saplings  the  year 
the  house  was  built.  Dea.  William  Jones,  George  E.  Spald- 
ing.  Mr.  Spalding  tore  down  the  old  "  hop  house"  and  barns 
and  built  the  present  commodious  barns. 

The  Bixby  place. —  Rev.  Nathaniel  Merrill  built  the  house  on 
this  place  for  a  parsonage.  The  land  was  given  by  Benj. 
L,ynde  either  to  the  church  or  to  the  town,  or  to  Mr.  Merrill. 
(In  the  absence  of  any  record  in  the  church,  town,  or  society's 
books  it  is  hard  at  this  date  to  say  to  which  he  gave  it.)  Robert 
B.  Tupper,  Oliver  Bixby,  John  C.  Ordway,  Samuel  Dolliver, 
Thomas  A.  Williams,  Edward  K.  Warren.  Mr.  Williams  and 
Mr.  Warren  kept  a  store  in  the  house,  and  it  was  the  last  abid- 
ing place  of  the  post-office  at  the  "Centre"  before  that  office 
was  discontinued. 

The  Richardson  place. —  George  and  Daniel  Gould  took  a 
deed  of  lot  70  Dec.  5,  1775,  and  of  lot  69  July,  1783.  The 
grantor  was  John  Gould.  Daniel  Gould  first  built  on  this  land, 
or  more  precisely,  on  lot  70.  He  kept  store  and  tavern  there 
for  a  number  of  years.  Jacob  Richardson  then  bought  the 
place.  Timothy  Richardson,  John  Richardson,  Fred  A.  Rich- 
ardson. About  1857  John  Richardson  tore  down  the  Gould 
buildings  and  erected  the  present  house,  ell,  and  later  the  barn. 

The  Parsonage.—  Built  by  the  Congregational  Society  in  1837 
and  occupied  by  the  pastors  of  the  Congregational  church  ever 
since. 

The  Old  Store  house.—  Built  by  Daniel  or  George  Gould  in  the 
decade  1780-1790.  It  was  George  who  probably  built  the 


532  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

house,  as  Daniel  built  on  the  Richardson  place.  But  Daniel 
lived  inihe  house  at  one  time.  It  was  one  of  the  historic  houses 
of  the  town.  It  was  a  large,  square,  two-storied  building,  with 
a  long  ell  in  which  was  kept  the  store.  Town  meeting  day  the 
store  was  thronged  by  the  townspeople  to  buy  the  famous  gin- 
gerbread of  those  days,  and  to  purchase  other  special  bargains 
offered  by  the  storekeeper  "  for  that  day  only." 

It  was  the  rendezvous  of  competitive  hunting  parties,  and  if 
the  traditions  are  true,  the  hunters  used  to  buy,  beg  and  steal 
game  just  the  same  as  now.  It  was  there  that  the  men  and 
boys  of  the  vicinity  resorted  at  evening  time  to  swap  stories, 
hear  the  news,  wrestle,  pull  stick  and  practice  other  athletic 
sports  almost  unknown  to  the  boys  of  the  present  day.  In  the 
second  story  of  the  house  was  a  large  hall  where  singing  schools 
were  kept.  After  the  death  of  the  Goulds  the  place  changed 
hands  once  or  twice,  of  which  changes  no  record  can  be  obtained. 
In  1830  it  was  the  property  of  Israel  H.  Goodridge,  then  Daniel 
Woodward,  Jr.,  Daniel  Woodward,  Sr.,  William  J.  Herrick, 
William  W.  Curtis.  The  buildings  were  burned,  as  recorded  in 
another  chapter. 

The  Capt.  Peter  Clark  place. — With  Nehemiah  Rand  when 
he  came  to  I/yndeborough  from  Charlestown,  Mass".,  was  a 
young  lad  named  Nehemiah  Frost.  This  Frost  afterward  mar- 
ried Irene,  a  daughter  of  Rand.  Mr.  Frost  built  the  house  on 
this  place  and  was  the  first  settler  on  the  land.  After  Frost, 
David  Farrington,  Robert  B.  Tupper,  Esq.,  then  David,  or  as 
better  known,  "  Esquire  "Stiles,  Capt.  Peter  Clark,  W.  H.  and 
B.  J.  Clark,  William  H.  Clark. 

The  Dr.  William  A.  Jones  house. — This  house  was  built  by  a 
stock  company  for  Dr.  W.  A.  Jones.  The  people  desired  to 
keep  a  physician  in  town  and  there  was  no  convenient  tenement 
for  him  to  live  in,  so  this  house  was  built.  On  the  removal  of 
Dr.  Jones  from  town  later,  the  place  was  sold  to  B.  J.  Clarke. 
S.  D.  Rand,  Belle  I,.  Boutwell. 

The  Wheeler  house. —  Built  by  Josiah  Wheeler  about  1810. 
George  E.  Winn,  Frank  Joslin,  Mrs.  Jennie  Frank,  Walter 
Stewart. 

The  Nelson  Kidder  place. —  Nehemiah  Boutwell  built  the  first 
house  on  this  place.  Nelson  Kidder  came  to  Lyndeborough, 
bought  the  place,  tore  down  the  old  house  and  built  the  present 
cottage.  He  built  a  blacksmith  shop  on  the  opposite  side  of  the 
street.  Thomas  A.  Williams,  C.  R.  Boutwell,  George  Kimball. 


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The  Capt.  Henry  Clark  place. —  It  is  only  a  tradition  who 
built  the  house  which  formerly  stood  on  this  land.  This  tradi- 
tion says  that  when  Ebeuezer  Coston  sold  his  place  to  James 
Boutwell  he  reserved  this  small  plot  of  land  and  built  a  house 
thereon.  When  torn  down  it  was  one  of  the  oldest  houses  in 
this  section  of  the  town.  A  store  was  kept  there  for  a  time,  and 
Dr.  Israel  Herrick  had  an  office  there  when  he  returned  to 
I,yndeborough  at  the  solicitation  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Merrill. 
Widow  Creecy,  Capt.  Henry  Clarke,  Ovid  Fowler,  C.  R.  Bout- 
well. 

The  Boutwell  place. —  Jonathan  Cram,  Jr.,  was  undoubtedly 
the  first  settler  on  this  land.  Dec.  24,  1760,  he  deeded  it  to 
Rev.  John  Rand.  Rand  sold  it  to  Ebenezer  Coston,  and  Coston 
deeded  it  to  James  Boutwell,  Apr.  8,  1767.  James  Boutwell 
evidently  bought  and  sold  considerable  land  at  one  time  and 
another.  There  is  a  record  that  he  took  a  deed  of  a  lot  of  land 
from  Asahel  Brunson,  paying  therefor  3,000  "Spanish  milled 
dollars."  This  farm  has  been  owned  since  1767  by  some  mem- 
ber of  the  Boutwell  family.  James  Boutwell,  Nehemiah  Bout- 
well,  Rodney  C.  Boutwell,  Benjamin  J.  Boutwell,  Charles  R. 
Boutwell,  Mrs.  C.  R.  Boutwell. 

The  large,  square  house  was  built  by  Nehemiah  Boutwell  and 
was  remodeled  by  Charles  R.  Boutwell. 

The  Dutton  cottage. — Franklin  Hadley  built  this  house  as 
home  for  his  aged  father  and  mother.  For  some  reason  they 
never  went  there  to  live,  and  the  place  was  sold  to  Eliza  Cham- 
berlain. Betsey  E.  Dutton,  C.  R.  Boutwell,  Rev.  O.  E.  Hardy. 

The  Nancy  Miller  cottage.— Nancy  Miller  bought  of  John 
Richardson  the  old  store-house  of  Daniel  Gould,  had  it  removed 
to  this  place  and  remodeled  it  into  the  present  building.  This 
was  about  1850. 

The  Abram  Boutwell  place.— Leonard  Morse  had  the  old 
shoemaker's  shop  of  "  Esquire"  Tupper  moved  to  this  place 
and  remodeled.  Abram  Boutwell,  Frank  Joslin. 

The  Raymond  place.— J.  Hartshorn  built  the  house  on  this 
place.  Henry  M.  Stayner.  William  B.  Raymond  bought  the 
place  in  1844  and  has  lived  there  sixty-one  years.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Raymond  have  lived  together  man  and  wife  sixty-nine 
years,  a  record  that  is  rarely  equalled  in  New  England  to-day. 

The  Stearns  place.— The  house  on  this  place  was  built  by 
William  Abbott.  Charles  Maynard,  John  Stearns,  Frank  Stearns. 


534  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

DISTRICT   NO  2. 

The  John  Chenery  place. — The  widow  McMaster  built  the 
house  on  this  place.  Eliza  McMaster,  John  Chenery. 

The  Dr.  Israel  Herrick  place. — Dr.  Israel  Herrick  bought 
this  place  of  Jonas  Wheeler.  The  house  on  the  place  was 
burned  after  Dr.  Herrick  bought  it ;  whether  Jonas  Wheeler 
built  the  old  house  or  not  is  uncertain.  The  probabilities  are 
that  he  did  not,  but  at  this  date  there  are  no  traditions  and  no 
records.  The  old  buildings  were  burned  as  recorded  elsewhere, 
and  Dr.  Herrick  replaced  them  with  new.  Benj.  G.  Herrick. 

The  Lafayette  Herrick  place. — David  Woodward,  2d.,  built 
the  brick  house  on  this  place.  Between  Woodward  and  Karr 
there  were  changes  of  ownership  of  which  I  have  no  record. 
James  H.  Karr,  Lafayette  Herrick,  Indianna  Herrick. 

The  Dea.  Mclntire  place. — So  far  as  is  known,  Joseph  Kidder 
or  some  member  of  the  Kidder  family  first  settled  on  this  land. 
It  was  deeded  to  John  Kidder  by  Ephraim  Powers,  June  15, 
1772.  Joseph  Kidder  built  the  house  or  part  of  it  which  stands 
on  the  land  now.  Nathaniel  Tay,  Elias  Mclntire,  Nathaniel 
T.  Mclntire. 

The  Israel  Woodward  place. — Benjamin  Fuller  first  built  on 
this  land ;  then  a  Mr.  Hackett,  Israel  Woodward,  Hannah 
Woodward,  Wilkes  H.  Hadley,  Mrs.  Martin. 

The  Fuller  homestead. — Nov.  n,  1767  Sewall  Goodridge 
deeded  to  Andrew  Fuller  part  of  Lot  86,  2nd.  division.  Jan.  10, 
1772  Josiah  Abbott  deeded  to  Andrew  Fuller  the  remainder  of 
Lot  86.  Nov.  20,  1773  Joseph  Blaney  deeded  to  Andrew  Fuller 
Lot  5,  2nd.  division. 

Andrew  Fuller  was  the  first  settler  and  builder  on  this  land 
and  the  farm  has  been  handed  from  father  to  son  until  now. 
Andrew  Fuller,  Jr.,  Moses  C.  Fuller.  This  is  one  of  the  farms 
owned  by  a  direct  descendant  of  the  first  settler. 

The  Pinnacle  House  estate. — David  Woodward  was  the  first 
settler  on  this  land  and  built  a  brick  house  thereon.  John  and 
David  Gage,  John  W.  Burnham,  Edward  W.  Duncklee.  Mr. 
Duncklee  built  the  large  summer  hotel  known  as  the  Pinnacle 
House. 

The  Isaac  L.  Duncklee  place. — Thomas  Holt,  —  Floyd,  Isaac 
L.  Duncklee,  Clintie  Duncklee. 

The  David  Holt  homestead. — William  Holt  and  David  Strat- 
ton  settled  on  this  land  together.  They  built  a  log-house  and 
occupied  it  one  winter.  William  Holt  then  removed  to  an 


REAL  ESTATE  535 

adjoining  lot  now  owned  by  Benj.  G.  Herrick.  Stratton 
remained  and  built  the  seventh  frame  house  in  L,yndeborough. 
He  soon  sold  out  to  Holt,  and  the  latter  came  back  to  this  farm 
and  it  has  remained  in  the  family  possession  ever  since.  Wil- 
liam Holt,  Oliver  Holt,  David  Holt,  Andy  Holt,  Fred  Holt. 
Most  of  the  present  buildings  were  erected  or  improved  during 
the  ownership  of  David  Holt. 

The  Harvey  Holt  place. — Dr.  Benjamin  Jones  was  the  first 
settler  on  this  land,  and  also  the  first  settled  physician  in  town. 
He  took  a  deed  of  this  land  of  James  Andrews  Aug.  29,  1770. 
He  sold  the  place  to  his  son  Joseph,  and  built  the  brick  house 
at  the  "  Center."  Harvey  Holt,  Henry  H.  Joslin. 

The  David  C.  Grant  place. — Melchizedeck  Boffee  first  made 
a  home  on  this  lot,  taking  a  deed  of  the  same  from  Jeremiah 
Lee,  Aug  10,  1770.  The  next  owner  was  John  Boffee,  his  son. 
James  Grant  bought  the  farm  but  between  Boffee  and  Grant 
there  was  probably  a  transfer  of  which  we  have  no  record. 
James  Grant,  David  C.  Grant,  Arthur  Grant,  Frank  H.  Joslin. 

The  Foster  Woodward  place. — Foster  Woodward  bought  this 
land  of  L,evi  H.  Woodward  and  erected  the  present  buildings. 
Eliza  and  Josie  Woodward. 

The  "  Houston  "  Woodward  place. — This  land  was  originally 
part  of  the  Stephenson  estate.  When  Eleazer  Woodward,  Jr. 
sold  his  farm  to  the  town,  he  bought  here  and  built  a  house  and 
barn.  L,evi  Houston  Woodward,  Dana  B.  Sargent,  Mrs.  Dana 
B.  Sargent,  Mrs.  Mattie  Putnam. 

The  Williams  Woodward  place. — Williams  Woodward  built 
the   cottage  on  this  place.     Levi  H.  Woodward,  Harriet  - 
Myra  Davis,  Lizzie  Hilt. 

The  Stephenson  homestead  farm.— John  Stephenson  was  the 
first  settler  on  this  land  and  the  ownership  has  descended  from 
father  to  son  to  this  day.  John  Stephenson  was  one  of  the  early 
settlers  and  this  farm  was  certainly  improved  by  him  as  early  as 
1755-  John  Stephenson,  John  Stephenson,  Jr.,  Jonathan  Steph- 
enson, Willis  J.  Sephenson.  John  Stephenson  took  a  deed 
from  B.  Lynde  Dec.  20,  1764  of  Lot  55,  2nd  division  and  March 
5,  1780  he  bought  of  the  same  party  Lot  56,  2nd  division.  Nov. 
2,  1768  he  bought  of  Benj.  Cram  part  of  Lot  59. 

DISTRICT   NO.    4. 

The  Watkins  place.— This  place  was  probably  first  improved 
by  some  member  of  the  Kidder  family.  Either  Phineas,  Phin- 
eas,  or  Phineas  C.,  known  as  "Old  Phineas,"  "Middle  Phin- 


536  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

eas "  and  "Young  Phineas "  ;  then  Oliver  Watkins,  David 
Upton. 

The  Old  Parker  Tavern  stand. — Jonathan  Parker  was  the 
builder  of  a  log  house  on  this  land.  Isaiah  Parker,  Charles 
Parker ;  then  a  number  of  transient  occupants ;  George  R. 
Barnes. 

The  James  W.  Merrill  place. —  William  lyoring,  Manley  Kid- 
der,  who  built  the  present  house.  James  W.  Merrill. 

The  Charles  Parker  place. —  Charles  Parker,  George  Dunck- 
lee,  George  H.  Stevens,  Horace  D.  Gage. 

The  Jonas  Abbott  place. —  Owned  and  occupied  for  many 
years  by  the  Abbott  family.  Charles  I,.  Avery 

The  Christie  place. —  First  house  on  this  place  built  by  John 
K.  Christie.  Morris  Frye,  Charles  Goodrich,  Charles  R.  Smith. 

The  Dea.  John  C.  Goodrich  place. —  Ebenezer  Hutchinson 
first  settled  on  this  place.  John  Southwick,  John  C.  Goodrich 
and  Eliphalet  Atwood,  John  C.  Goodrich,  John  H.  Goodrich. 
The  post  office  at  North  Lyndeborough  was  always  kept  at  this 
place. 

The  Paul  Atwood  place. —  Paul  Atwood  built  the  house  on 
this  place.  John  H.  Goodrich  ;  now  owned  by  Mrs  Stella  E. 
Woods. 

The  Benjamin  Ames  place. — Jonathan  Thayer  first  built 
here.  William  H.  Gould,  I^uther  Odell,  Benjamin  B.  Ames, 
Edward  E.  Rogers. 

The  John  Clark  place. —  John  Clark,  a  brother  of  Major 
Peter,  built  and  settled  on  this  place  in  1776.  Sarah  C.  Good- 
rich, Ella  M.  Quiggle. 

The  Senter  place. —  Either  Asa  or  Benjamin  Senter  first  im- 
proved this  place.  The  traditions  indicate  that  it  was  Asa. 
Franklin  Senter,  Charles  H.  Senter. 

The  Francis  Epps  or  Osborne  place.  —  Samuel  Senter 
deeded  part  of  I^ot  107  to  Francis  "Epse,"  Nov.  15,  1771. 
Daniel  Epes  deeded  part  of  I,ot  108  to  the  same  Francis,  Jan. 
15,  1772.  .  .  Francis  Epps  was  the  first  builder  and  settler 
on  this  land.  Eliphalet  Atwood,  William  H.  Osborne,  Charles 
H.  Bailey,  Adams  &  Mudgett. 

The  Starrett  place. —  Asa  Palmer,  Richard  Batten,  Martin 
Whitney,  William  Starrett,  Allen  Brown.  * 

The  Nathan  Brown  place. —  Nathan  Brown,  Jonathan  Clark, 
Allen  A.  Brown. 

The  Daniel  Proctor  place. —  Daniel  Proctor,  John  Proctor. 


REAL  ESTATE  537 

The  Major  Peter  Clark  place, —  Benjamin  "  Epes  "  deeded 
this  land  to  Peter  Clark,  Dec.  23,  1773.  He  built  the  house 
and  mill  as  recorded  in  another  chapter.  William  Clark,  Capt. 
Peter  Clark.  Present  owner,  Henry  K.  Holden. 

The  Allen  Brown  place.  Allen  Brown,  John  C.  Goodrich, 
who  built  the  present  house,  Patrick  Hanley,  John  Wellman, 
Daniel  Henderson,  Oliver  Harris,  Mark  Morse,  Mark  Morse 
heirs,  J.  McL/ane. 

The  Boardman  place. —  Thomas  Boardman  first  improved 
this  land.  Daniel  N.  Boardman,  Peter  Clark,  Samuel  Dyer, 
W.  K.  Cochran,  Alfred  C.  Wilder,  Irwin  D.  Wilder. 

The  old  Proctor  place. —  John  Proctor  first  built  on  the  side 
of  the  mountain  south  of  this  place.  He  afterward  bought  this 
place  of  Charles  Whitmarsh.  Charles  Whitmarsh,  John  Proc- 
tor, Sylvester  Proctor,  David  K.  Proctor. 

The  Asa  Hill  place.—  Abel  Hill,  Asa  Hill,  Asa  Hill  heirs, 
W.  C.  Wilder,  Merrill  T.  Spalding. 

The  Needham  place. —  Daniel  Plummer,  David  Stiles,  Jr., 
Martin  Whitney,  William  Iy.  Needham,  Warren  Needham, 
Mrs.  Harry  Morse. 

DISTRICT  NO.  7. —  JOHNSON'S  CORNER. 

John  Johnson  to  Adam  Johnson,  Dec.  29,  1746,  Lot  45,  ist 
division. 

^BHas  Taylor  to  Adam  Johnson,  March  17,  1758,  Lot  45,  ist 
division,  with  a  full  share  of  common  or  undivided  land. 

Adam  Johnson  to  Rachel  Johnson,  April  9,  1768,  Lot  59,  ist 
division. 

Elias  Taylor  to  Adam  Johnson,  March  17,  1758,  Lot  46,  ist 
division. 

John  Johnson  to  Adam  Johnson,  April  8,  1772,  Lot  58,  ist 
division. 

James  Johnson  to  B.  Lynde,  Sept.  22,  1772,  Lot  56,  2nd 
division. 

James  Boutwell  to  Adam  Johnson,  Jan.  14,  1775,  Lot  58,  ist 
division. 

Solomon  Cram  .to  Adam  Johnson,  July  i,  i772»  I/>t-23>  ist 
division. 

The  above  transcripts  from  the  registrar  of  deeds  office  shows 
the  amount  of  land  in  part  owned  by  the  Johnson  family,  and 
why  that  section  of  the  town  was  early  called  Johnson's 
Corner. 

The    David    Carkin    place.— David   Carkin,    Asher  Curtis, 


538  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Alfred  Nourbourn.  Mr.  Nourbourn  occupies  this  place  now 
as  a  summer  home. 

The  Edwin  Patch  place. — Joseph  Chamberlain  first  built  on 

this  place.  Edwin  N.  Patch,  Clough,  Robert  T.  S.  Shep- 

ard,  Robert  T.  S.  Shepard  heirs. 

The  Rose  place. —  Solomon  Cram  was  first  settler  on  this 
land.  Timothy  Putnam,  Abram  Rose,  Brackley  Rose,  George 
Rose,  George  Rose  heirs,  Willard  Rose. 

The  Eli  Clark  Curtis  place. —  This  land  was  part  of  the 
Carleton  estate.  Dudley  Carlton  built  the  brick  house.  Ama- 
ziah  Blanchard,  E.  C.  Curtis. 

The  Amaziah  Blanchard  place. —  Amaziah  Blanchard  first 
settled  on  this  land.  William  W.  Curtis,  Asher  Curtis. 

The  old  Carkin  homestead  or  Robert  Lynch  place. —  John 
Carkin,  Aaron  Carkin,  Rufus  Chamberlain,  Robert  K.  Lynch, 
W.  W.  Curtis,  Edward  W.  Curtis. 

The  Andrew  Tyler  place. —  Andrew  Tyler  built  the  house  on 
this  place.  Sally  Curtis,  William  Richardson. 

The  Asa  Manning  place. — Jacob  Manning,  Asa  Manning, 
Solon  Richardson,  Willis  Perham,  Walter  S.  Shepard.  This 
record  is  imperfect.  Between  Manning  and  Richardson  were 
probably  transfers  of  this  land  of  which  we  have  no  information. 

This  place  was  once  used  as  the  Mont  Vernon  poor  farm. 
Some  of  the  older  residents  of  the  town  can  remember  when  it 
was  thus  used,  but  we  have  been  unable  to  find  anyone  who 
could  tell  the  reason  of  Mont  Vernon' s  coming  over  into  Lynde- 
borough  for  a  place  to  maintain  their  paupers. 

The  William  H.  Bowen  farm. —  This  place  was  originally 
part  of  the  Johnson  property.  A  man  named  Brown  once  lived 
there,  but  whether  he  built  the  old  set  of  buildings  which  were 
on  the  place  when  Burnham  Russell  bought  it  cannot  now  be 
told.  Orrin  Russell  built  the  present  house.  Burnham  Russell, 
Orrin  Russell,  Joseph  White,  William  H.  Bowen.  .Mr.  Bowen 
has  added  to  and  remodeled  the  whole  set  of  buildings. 

The  Burnham  Russell  farm. —  John  Johnson,  Adam  Johnson, 
Edmund  Perkins,  Burnham  Russell,  Aaron  W.  Russell. 

The  Kilburn  S.  Curtis  place. —  Amos  Wilkins,  William  Car- 
son, Josiah  Russell,  John  Ramsdell,  Asher  Curtis,  Kilburn  S. 
Curtis,  Mrs.  Frances  Curtis.  Kilburn  S.  Curtis  built  the  pres- 
ent set  of  buildings.  The  old  house  was  once  struck  by  light- 
ning and  badly  damaged. 

The  David  D.  Clark  place. — Jacob  Wellman,  John  and  Polly 


REAL  ESTATE  539 

Wellman,  David  D.  Clark,  Fred  Lowe,  George  J.  Carson.  The 
house  standing  on  this  farm  is  said  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Clark  to  be 
one  of  the  oldest  in  town. 

Alexander  Carson  place. —  Alexander  Carson,  Benj.  Gould, 
John  Wellman,  William  R.  Duncklee,  Isaac  L.  Duncklee, 
Leonard  G.  Brown.  Ira  R.  Brown  built  the  present  house. 

The  Leonard  G.  Brown  place. —  Ezekiel  Upton,  James  L. 
Clark,  Robert  R.  Brown,  C.  H.  Holt,  Leonard  G.  Brown.  Be- 
tween the  ownership  of  Mr.  Upton  and  Mr.  Clark,  a  man  named 
Marvell  lived  here,  but  whether  as  owner  or  tenant  is  not  known. 

The  Charles  L.  Perham  place. —  John  Hutchinson,  first  set- 
tler. Rev.  Mr.  Clark  says  that  "he  gave  a  bond  to  Jonathan 
Peal  of  Salem,  Mass.,  July  10,  1736,  that  he  would  have  within 
four  years  a  dwelling  house,  20x18,  built  and  twelve  acres 
cleared,  broken  up,  and  fenced  in."  The  deed  was  given  Sept. 
27,  1760,  and  the  conditions  were  fulfilled. 

The  next  owner  of  which  we  can  get  any  account  was  Abel 
Hill,  but  between  Hutchinson  and  Hill  there  were  probably 
tranfers  of  the  land.  It  is  known  that  David  Butterfield  lived 
there  for  a  time.  This]  farm  was  deeded  by  Abel  Hill  to  James 
L.  Clark,  Apr.  20,  1815.  Asa  Clark,  Oliver  Perham,  Charles 
L.  Perham. 

The  Haggett  place.—  John  Haggett,  Joseph  Haggett,  Joseph 
Haggett  heirs,  D.  Whiting  &  Sons,  E.  C.  Curtis. 

The  Micah  Hartshorn  place. —  Micah  Hartshorn,  Samuel  N. 
Hartshorn.  Samuel  N.  Hartshorn  heirs,  Eliphalet  J.  Hardy, 
Owen  E.  Hardy,  Edward  G.  Hall. 

The  Persons  S.  Holt  place.— Now  owned  and  occupied  as  a 
summer  home  by  the  heirs  of  John  Herrick. 

The  Jeremiah  Carleton  place.— Jeremiah  Carleton,  James 
Donnell  and  John  Hartshorn,  Joseph  Chamberlain,  Israel  Cur- 
tis, Eli  C.  Curtis. 

DISTRICT   NO.    8. 

The  Jesse  Simonds  place.—  Jonas  Kidder  took  a  deed  of  this 
land  from  Benjamin  Lynde  May  i,  1766.     After  Mr.  Kidder  re- 
moved to  Hudson  there  were  one  or  two  transfers  of  the  prop- 
erty of  which  we  can  find  no  record.     He  was  the  first  settler  on 
the  land,  and  kept  a  tavern  there.     The  old  tavern  built  by  1 
was  torn  down  in  the  early  6o's  by  Jesse  Simonds,  who  built  tn 
present   house.     In   1840    Jesse    Reed   owned  the  place,    then 
Charles  Woodward,  Jesse  Simonds,  John  D.  Butler,  Rob 
Mason. 


540  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

The  I^evi  Spalding  place. — The  house  on  this  place  was 
built  by  one  of  the  Spalding  family,  Henry  Spalding,  proba- 
bly. Ivevi  Spaldiug,  L,evi  Spalding  heirs,  Frank  Starrett, 
Warren  Nichols. 

The  Daniel  Woodward  place. — There  is  a  tradition  that  there 
was  a  log  house  on  the  land  when  Daniel  Woodward  bought  it, 
about  the  year  1800.  He  built  a  brick  house  there  in  1820. 
Daniel  Woodward,  Jr.,  Sumner  French,  Sumner  French  heirs, 
Willis  J.  Stephenson.  House  destroyed  by  fire. 

The  Dutton  place. — Reuben  Dutton,  Benjamin  Dutton,  Bet- 
sey E.  Dutton,  John  Fletcher.  , 

The  Houston  place. —  Dea.  Samuel  Houston  first  built  here, 
and  the  farm  was  owned  by  the  Houston  family  until  their  re- 
moval to  Iowa.  Buildings  long  since  torn  down. 

The  Whiting  place. —  Dea.  Oliver  Whiting  or  his  father  first 
improved  this  land.  After  he  removed  to  New  York,  there  were 
transfers  of  the  property  of  which  we  have  no  record.  The 
buildings  have  been  torn  down,  and  part  of  the  land  is  owned 
by  D.  B.  Whittemore. 

The  Nathan  Cummings  place. — This  was  a  part  of  the  large 
tract  of  land  once  owned  by  Edward,  Stephen,  Capt.  I,evi,  and 
Henry  Spalding.  It  is  probable  that  one  of  these  men  built 
the  old  house  which  stood  there.  Nathan  Cummings  built  the 
present  cottage.  Henry  Joslin,  Nathan  Cummings,  Mrs.  Na- 
than Cummings. 

Sherebiah  Manning  place. — Benjamin  Jones  built  the  large, 
two-storied  house  which  stands  on  this  farm  and  was  the  first 
settler  there.  Sherebiah  Manning  built  the  barn.  Benj.  Jones, 
Sherebiah  Manning,  I,evi  P.  Spalding.  Millard  Wilson. 

The  "  Paige  '*  Spalding  place. — A  comparison  of  records  and 
traditions  seems  to  show  that  Capt.  Nathaniel  Bachelder  was 
the  first  settler  here.  Dea.  Abram  Patch,  Edward  P.  Spalding, 
Edward  Parry,  Edward  Parry  heirs. 

The  Twitchell  place. — Of  this  place  we  can  get  but  little  in- 
formation. Asa  Twitchell  lived  there  for  a  time  as  did  George 
R.  Barnes.  It  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  M.  A.  Sweetserof  Stone- 
ham,  Mass,  and  occupied  as  a  summer  home. 

The  Whittemore  homestead. — Daniel  Whittemore  took  a 
a  deed  of  the  lot,  numbered  124,  2nd  division,  April  28,  1770. 
It  is  one  of  the  four  farms  in  Lyndeborough  which  are  tilled  by 
a  direct  descendant  of  the  first  settler  on  the  land.  Aaron  Whit- 
temore, Aaron  Whittemore,  Daniel  B.  Whittemore. 


CHAPTER  XXXII. 
TOWN  FAIRS  AND  CELEBRATIONS. 

THE  TOWN  FAIRS  OF  1879  AND  1880. 
BY  H.  W.  WHITTEMORE. 

In  the  olden  time,  as  has  been  intimated  in  another  chapter, 
the  people  of  L,yndeborough  were  industrious  to  a  fault.  But 
the  reason  is  not  far  to  seek;  it  took  pretty  nearly  all  their 
time  to  earn  a  living. 

Within  comparatively  recent  times,  however,  the  towns- 
people have  become  accustomed  to  taking  a  day  off  for  some 
sort  of  recreation,  and  that  fact  is  easily  explained,  too.  The 
stone  walls  that  cross  and  re-cross  the  town  in  every  direction 
were  nearly  all  built  long  ago.  Clearing  the  land  of  the  stone 
for  walls  left  the  fields  in  readiness  for  farm  machinery ;  and 
with  the  advent  of  the  mowing  machine,  the  horse-rake,  the 
hay-fork,  the  corn-planter,  and  the  cultivator,  out-of-door  work 
that  used  to  be  done  slowly,  by  hand,  is  done  rapidly  now 
by  machine.  A  similar  revolution  has  taken  place  within  the 
housekeeper's  domain,  for  much  work  formerly  done  in  the 
kitchen,  by  hand,  is  now  done  by  machine  in  factories  of  many 
kinds,  at  a  distance. 

Having  more  of  leisure  in  it,  the  life  of  the  average  citizen 
has  been  modified,  perhaps,  by  the  bright  city  cousin  and  the 
jolly  summer  boarder  who  have  been  coming  to  L,yndeborough 
for  many  years  to  enjoy,  for  a  season,  the  wholesome  hospitality 
of  a  New  Hampshire  country  town.  %Be  that  as  it  may,  the 
stranger  from  ' '  down  below  ' '  often  helps  to  enliven  the  basket 
picnic  that,  on  occasion,  calls  together  men,  women  and  chil- 
dren from  all  parts  of  the  town. 

One  such  picnic  was  held  years  ago  on  the  top  of  Pinnacle 
Mountain.  Several  ox-teams  were  employed  by  the  committee 
on  transportation,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  more  oxen  were 
up  there  that  day  than  can  be  found  in  the  whole  town  now. 
One  man  rode  in  a  wagon  all  the  way  up  —  a  feat  probably 
never  performed  before  or  since. 

Other  picnics  have  been  held  at  "Purgatory"  Falls,  at 
Barnes'  Falls  and  in  a  grove  near  the  old  Parker  place  on  the 
turnpike.  A  brass  band,  with  headquarters  at  North  Lynde- 


542  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

borough,  assisted  in  drawing  people  to  this  grove,  and  on  at 
least  one  occasion  the  Lafayette  Artillery  Co.  was  present. 

More  ambitious  attempts  at  making  a  holiday  distinguish  the 
years  1879  and  1880  when  town  fairs  were  held  at  the  centre. 

At  a  public  meeting  held  in  August,  1879,  a  committee  was 
chosen  "to  see  what  action  the  people  would  take  to  start  a 
town  fair."  The  committee  was  as  follows  : 

Fred  A.  Richardson,  David  C.  Grant,  David  G.  Dickey,  I/uther  Cram, 
Joel  H.  Tarbell,  Franklin  Senter,  Wm.  W.  Burton,  E.  C.  Curtis,  George 
Rose,  D.  B.  Whittemore,  Jotham  Hildreth,  Charles  I/.  Avery. 

This  committee  met  on  August  25th,  voted  to  organize  for  a 
town  fair,  and  chose  Daniel  B.  Whittemore,  president ;  George 
Rose,  vice-president ;  John  H.  Goodrich,  secretary  and  treas- 
urer ;  Eli  C.  Curtis,  general  superintendent.  The  committee 
also  appointed  the  following  persons  trustees  : 

District  No.  i.  F.  A.  Richardson,  Martin  Whitney,  David  G.  Dickey. 

"         "2.  Benjamin  G.  Herrick,  David  C.  Grant. 

"        "3.  Charles  F.  Tarbell,  Artemas  Woodward,  Luther  Cram. 

"        "     4.  Erwin  D.  Wilder,  Franklin  Senter. 

"        "    5.  Wm.  W.  Burton,  Wm.  N.  Ryerson. 

"     6.  Geo.  W.  Parker,  Charles  Tarbell,  John  Batchelder. 

"         "7.  Geo.  Rose,  Chas.  L.  Perham. 

"    8.  D.  B.  Whittemore,  1,.  P.  Spalding. 

"        "9.  Jotham  Hildreth. 

"         "  10.  Chas.  I/.  Avery. 

At  later  meetings  a  constitution  and  by-laws  were  adopted, 
judges  were  appointed,  other  necessary  arrangements  were 
made  and  October  i  was  fixed  upon  to  be  the  day  of  the  fair. 

At  ii  o'clock,  A.  M.,  on  the  day  named,  a  procession  was 
formed  in  the  following  order  : 

Capt.  Andy  Holt,  Chief  Marshal 

George  E.  Spalding,  Marshal 

Mont  Vernon  Brass  Band 

I/afayette  Artillery  Co. 

Town  Team,  composed  of  thirteen  yoke  of  oxen 
Citizens  in  carriages 

On  the  common,  during  the  day,  there  were  various  tests  of 
strength  and  endurance,  and  on  an  improvised  track,  near  by, 
there  was  a  horse-race,  probably  the  only  formal  race  of  the 
kind  ever  seen  in  L,yndeborough.  (Sometimes,  it  may  be  said, 
the  ringing  of  the  church  bell  has  excited  the  horses  of  people 
making  their  way,  single  file,  towards  the  centre  of  the  town, 
so  that  they  became,  practically,  unmanageable.  In  such 


TOWN  FAIRS  AND  CELEBRATIONS  543 

cases  usually  the  best  horse  arrived  first.  But  horse  racing  has 
always  been  held  in  much  disfavor  by  most  L/yndeborough 
people.) 

Some  of  the  best  live  stock  in  town,  cattle,  horses  and  sheep, 
was  on  exhibition  and  in  the  town  hall  there  was  to  be  seen  the 
best  the  people  could  do  in  the  way  of  fruits  and  vegetables, 
butter,  cheese,  and  bread,  some  of  it  made  from  home-grown 
wheat. 

Besides,  there  were  exhibits  of  needle  work,  both  ancient  and 
modern,  and  a  number  of  articles,  interesting  on  account  of  age 
or  associations,  such,  for  example,  as  the  chair,  no  years 
old,  which  was  once  the  property  of  the  Rev.  Sewall  Goodrich, 
and  the  samples  of  cloth  shown  by  Mrs.  E.  Cram.  This  cloth 
was  woven  in  1772  by  the  great-grandmother  of  the  exhibitor. 

After  dinner  the  president  of  the  day  called  the  company  to 
order  and  speeches  were  made  by  Mr.  David  C.  Grant,  Mr.  C. 
H.  Holt  and  Hon.  Joseph  Chamberlain,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

The  officials  of  the  second  fair,  held  Sept.  22,  1880,  were  about 
the  same  as  those  of  the  previous  year,  with  the  exception  of  the 
judges,  who  were  more  numerous  and  whose  names  follow: — 

Live  Stock.— Luther  Cram,  Erwin  D.  Wilder,  Geo.  E.  Spalding;  F.  A. 
Richardson,  Charles  Tarbell,  Charles  L-  Perham;  Rufus  Chamberlain, 
Nathan  Richardson,  Edwin  N.  Patch;  Wm.  H.  Clark,  James  H.  Karr,  Al- 
bert Cram;  J.  A.  Woodward,  B.  J.  Clark,  Robt.  K.  Lynch. 

Fruit,  Vegetables  and  Seeds.— Rev.  T.  P.  Sawin,  John  E.  Batchelder, 
David  Putnam;  Geo.  Rose,  Everett  E.  Lowe,  Geo.  H.  Stevens;  David  G. 
Dickey,  Benj.  G.  Herrick,  N.  W.  Tarbell. 

Bread  and  Dairy  Products.— David  C.  Grant  and  Mrs.  Grant,  Mrs.  Geo. 
Rose. 

Knit  and  Fancy  Goods,  Embroidery,  Cut  Flowers,  etc.— Mrs.  E.  C. 
Curtis,  Mrs.  D.  B.  Whittemore,  Mrs.  G.  E.  Spalding;  Mrs.  B.  G.  Herrick, 
Mrs.  D.  G.  Dickey,  Mrs.  J.  E.  Batchelder;  Mrs.  C.  L.  Perham,  Mrs.  J.  C. 
Ordway,  Mrs.  C.  F.  Tarbell;  Miss  Ida  Patch,  Mrs.  Belle  Boutwell,  Mrs. 
J.  A.  Woodward. 

The  list  of  prizes  awarded  in  1880  is  given  in  full  in  the  Mil- 
ford  Enterprise  of  Sept.  27,  and  is,  approximately,  a  catalogue  of 
the  products  of  the  town.  The  names  of  a  large  proportion  of 
the  families  of  Lyndeborough  appear  in  this  list,  or  somewhere 
else  in  the  secretary's  book. 

The  music  of  the  day  was  by  the  Mont  Vernon  band.  Mr. 
David  H.  Goodell  of  Antrim,  who  was  Governor  of  New  Hamp- 
shire a  few  years  later,  made  an  address. 

These  town  fairs  were  good  examples,  on  a  very  small  scale, 
to  be  sure,  of  the  thoroughly  respectable  agricultural  fair  that 


544  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

used  to  entertain  and  instruct  great  numbers  of  New  England 
people,  and  provide  the  occasion  for  dignified  speeches  by  the 
governor  of  the  state  and  by  other  men  of  note. 

THE   CELEBRATION    OF    THE    ONE     HUNDRED    AND     FIFTIETH 

ANNIVERSARY   OF  THE   SETTLEMENT   OF   LYNDEBOROUGH. 

BY   J.    A.    WOODWARD. 

There  was  a  strong  desire  on  the  part  of  many  of  the  people 
living  in  L,yndeborough  at  the  time  the  town  had  reached  the 
age  of  one  hundred  years,  to  fittingly  celebrate  the  event,  and 
some  steps  were  taken  to  do  so.  But  for  some  reason  the 
scheme  fell  through.  It  would  seem  now  that  it  was  unfor- 
tunate for  the  history  of  the  town  that  the  people  did  not  carry 
out  their  good  intentions.  A  historical  sketch  written  at  that 
time  would  be  very  interesting  to  compare  with  that  which  we 
have  been  able  to  gather  now. 

Fifty  years  later  at  the  March  meeting,  1889,  the  question  of 
celebrating  the  one  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  was 
brought  up  and  it  was  unanimously  voted  to  hold  a  celebration.* 
The  following  committee  was  chosen  to  make  the  necessary  ar- 
rangements :  — 

Fred  A.  Richardson  Harvey  Perham 

Henry  H.  Joslin  Eli  C.  Curtis 

Fred  B.  Richards  Daniel  B.  Whittemore 

Ei-win  D.  Wilder  Sewell  M.  Buck 

William  W.  Burton  Charles  I/.  Avery 

A  special  town  meeting  was  called  on  Aug.  10  for  the  pur- 
pose of  perfecting  arrangements  and  appropriating  money  to  pay 
expenses,  and  it  is  a  curious,  and  in  some  respects  a  ludicrous 
fact,  that  this  meeting  extended  into  three  days  before  the  "red 
tape  ' '  of  the  law  could  be  complied  with  and  the  money  legally 
appropriated.  This  with  no  opposition  to  the  measure.  The 
sum  of  three  hundred  dollars  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
committee  to  carry  on  the  work. 

David  C.  Grant  was  chosen  president  of  the  day,  Andy  Holt 
chief  marshal,  and  Jacob  A.  Woodward,  toastmaster.  A  mam- 
moth tent  was  hired  in  Boston  and  was  pitched  on  the  common, 
just  south  of  the  town  hall. 

*At  the  time  this  celebration  was  proposed,  Mr.  David  C.  Grant  and  many  others  inter- 
ested in  the  event,  were  of  the  opinion  that  John  Badger  was  the  first  settler  within  the 
limits  of  Salem-Canada,  and  that  he  made  his  beginning  {^1739. 

Later  researches,  however,  serve  to  prove  that  so  far  as  his  being  the  first  settler 
such  was  not  the  fact,  and  that  really  the  celebration  should  have  been  held  in  1887. 
So  far  as  the  celebration  is  concerned  this  matter  is  immaterial  now,  and  this  note  is 
inserted  to  explain  any  discrepancy  which  a  careful  reader  of  the  foregoing  chapters  of 
this  history  might  find. 


ANNIVERSAR  Y  CELEBRA  TION  545 

The  day  selected,  Wednesday,  Sept.  4,  was  all  that  could  be 
desired  in  the  way  of  weather.  Cloudless  skies,  cool,  bracing 
air,  and  warm  sun,  made  an  ideal  day.  Sons  and  daughters  of 
Lyndeborough  had  come  from  all  over  the  country  to  visit  their 
native  town,  and  to  help  by  their  presence  in  making  the  day 
one  to  be  remembered.  Many  of  the  citizens  had  decorated 
their  homes  in  honor  of  the  occasion.  The  residence  of  Charles 
R.  Boutwell  was  especially  noticeable.  On  the  front  was  the 
inscription,  1739 — 1889.  The  grounds  as  well  as  the  house 
were  beautiful  with  national  colors  and  other  devices.  George 
E.  Spalding  also  put  out  numerous  flags,  and  displayed  a  por- 
trait of  the  first  settled  physician  in  town.  At  sunrise  the  bells 
were  rung  and  a  salute  was  fired.  At  9  o'clock  a  procession 
was  formed  on  the  common  in  the  following  order :  — 

Platoon  of  Police 

Chief  marshal,  Andy  Holt,  and  aides 

C.  Henry  Holt  in  command  of  militia,  and  staff 

Peterborough  Band,  22  pieces,  C.  E.  White,  leader 

Lafayette  Artillery  Co.,  A.  S.  Conant,  captain 

Section  of  Artillery,  Sergeant  A.  T.  Ford 
Post  Harvey  Holt,  G.  A.  R.,  Jason  Holt,  commander 

Color  Guard 

Sons  of  Veterans,  Edward  Ross,  captain 
Woman's  Relief  Corps,  and  citizens  in  private  carriages. 
The  route  of  the  procession  was  through  the  historic  street  of 
the  "centre."     In  the  evening  the  village  was  illuminated,  and 
there  was  a  fine  display  of  fireworks,  generously  paid  for  by 
Boutwell  Bros,  of  L,owell,  Mass. 

At  10  o'clock  A.  M.  the  meeting  which  had  assembled. under 
the  large  tent  was  called  to  order  by  the  president  of  the  day, 
Mr.  D.  C.  Grant,  who  said  :  — 

The  hour  has  arrived  which  was  assigned  by  the  committee  for  the 
celebration  of  the  one  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  settlemen 
of  Lyndeborough.     If  we  had  arranged  a  day  to  our  own  liking,  we  could 
not  have  selected  a  more  beautiful  day  than  this.    We  have  come  i 
gether  upon  a  very  interesting  occasion,  for  the  purpose  of  connectn 
the  future  with  the  past  by  a  golden  link  which  cannot  be  broken.    < 
hundred  and  ninety-nine  years  ago,  whoever  was  traveling  through 
village  of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  would  have  seen  a  little  band  colle 
together  to  go  on  an  expedition  to  Canada.     That  little  band  was  coi 
nianded  by  Capt.  Samuel  King.     That  expedition  returned  late  in  t 
season,  having  met  with  defeat  and  disaster.     They  found  the  excheque 
of  Massachusetts  depleted,  and  they  were  not  paid  for  their  services 

One  hundred  and  fifty-four  years  ago  1'ast  June  the  Commonwealth  ot 
Massachusetts  granted  to  Capt.  Samuel  King  and  his  co-laborers  for 
their  services,  a  certain  tract  of  land  six  miles  square,  lying  west 


546  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

ragansett  No.  3  —  so  called  then,  now  Amherst  and  part  of  Mont  Vernon. 
One  hundred  and  fifty-four  years  ago  the  proprietors  who  were  associated 
with  Capt.  Samuel  King  met  together  and  had  their  land  surveyed  ;  and 
the  remains  of  it  are  what  is  now  left  of  Lyndeborough,  but  at  that  time 
a  part  of  Wilton,  Mont  Vernon  and  Milford. 

Those  early  settlers,  those  earlier  proprietors,  made  an  effort  to  have 
the  land  surveyed,  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago  this  last  season 
they  had  built  a  few  cabins,  and  they  spent  the  winter  of  1739-40  in  the 
limits  of  old  Lyndeborough,  planting  the  first  settlement,  laboring 
against  the  forces  of  nature  to  establish  for  themselves  and  for  their  pos- 
terity a  home.  That  home  has  been  transmitted  to  us,  and  we,  their 
children,  to-day  have  met  to  connect,  as  I  said  before,  with  a  golden  link, 
the  bright  silver  chain  of  circumstances  which  has  brought  this  town 
into  its  present  position.  Last  March  a  few  of  the  citizens  of  Lyndebor- 
ough  conceived  the  idea  that  we  had  neglected  the  works  of  those  noble 
and  worthy  men  in  that  distant  day  as  they  came  here  into  this  forest 
home  and  established  the  homes  which  we  now  this  day  enjoy.  The 
town  unanimously  voted  to  celebrate  that  event,  and  invitations  have 
been  extended  to  you,  and  you  are  here  today  to  unite  with  us  in  con- 
necting that  important  event  with  the  events  of  this  day  and  with  the 
future.  We  thank  you  for  having  responded  so  nobly  and  so  generously 
to  that  call ;  and  the  God  of  heaven  has  smiled  upon  us,  and  lest  we 
should  forget  our  dependence  upon  that  God,  the  God  of  our  fathers  and 
our  God,  let  us  all  unite  in  calling  upon  His  name  to  assist  us  in  these 
services,  that  they  may  redound  to  His  glory  and  to  the  benefit  of  man- 
kind. I  will  call  upon  the  Rev.  Mr.  Childs  to  lead  us  in  prayer. 

Rev.  Mr.  Childs  of  L/yndborough  Centre  then  offered  prayer. 

The  President.  We  have  with  us  to-day  one  who  was  born 
and  reared  in  our  midst,  and  we  could  discover  nothing 
very  remarkable  in  him  while  a  boy.  As  he  grew  up  to 
manhood  he  served  us  as  superintending  school  committee,  first 
as  school  teacher,  then  as  merchant.  He  has  since  wandered 
from  the  fold,  and  has  gained  the  reputation  of  being  as  good  a 
specimen  of  the  live  Yankee  as  Lyndeborough  has  ever  been 
known  to  produce.  I  have  the  pleasure  of  introducing  to  you 
William  W.  Curtis. 

Mr.  Curtis.  Fellow-citizens  of  the  Town  of  Lyndeborough  :  Let  God 
be  praised  for  having  set  apart  so  perfect  a  day  for  this  commemora- 
tion of  our  illustrious  fathers  and  mothers,  who  fashioned  and  moulded 
the  golden  principles  of  justice,  honor  and  manhood  and  handed  them 
down  to  us,  that  they  might  be  everlastingly  perpetuated  to  all  future 
generations  of  the  sons  and  daughters  of  this,  their  native  home. 

Mr.  Curtis  then  read  a  poem,  the  manuscript  of  which  is  not 
available  for  this  history. 

The  President.  We  have  with  us,  to-day,  another  one  of  the 
noble  sons  of  Lyndeborough  who  spent  his  youthful  days  with 


ANNIVERSARY   CELEBRATION  547 

us,  who  has  gone  forth  as  an  educator  and  an  instructor ;  after- 
wards, to  preach  the  everlasting  Gospel  to  the  people.  He 
comes  to  you  to-day,  after  many  years  of  experience  and  after 
many  months  of  hard  searching  upon  our  musty  records.  He 
has  gleaned  much  from  them  and  will  now  lay  before  you  a  part 
of  the  results  of  his  labors.  I  have  the  honor  and  the  pleasure 
of  introducing  to  you  the  Rev.  F.  G.  Clark,  of  Medford,  Mass. 

The  address  of  Mr.  Clark  was  listened  to  with  close  attention 
and  was  greeted  with  much  applause.  It  was  the  first  con- 
nected story  of  I/yndeborough  or  rather  Salem-Canada-Iyynde- 
borough,  to  which  the  great  majority  of  the  citizens  of  the  town 
had  ever  listened.  With  his  permission  much  of  it  has  been 
incorporated  in  this  history. 

During  the  delivery  of  the  Historical  Address,  a  pause  was 
made  for  the  singing  of  a  hymn,  concerning  which  Mr.  Clark 
said :  The  hymn  now  to  be  sung  is  a  hymn  that  was  written  by 
Dr.  Herrick  for  the  last  service  held  in  the  old  church  which 
stood  where  the  present  town-house  now  stands. 

The  exercises  were  resumed  at  2  p.  M.,  and  the  president 
said  :  We  have  with  us  to-day  another  of  the  sons  of  L/ynde- 
borough,  who  grew  up  amongst  us,  who  went  to  our  schools, 
who  played  with  us,  and  who,  in  his  early  manhood,  prepared 
himself  to  teach  others.  He  has  wandered  away,  and  he  has 
returned  to  us  with  a  message.  I  have  the  honor  and  the 
pleasure  of  introducing  to  you  Professor  Daniel  Putnam,  of 
Ypsilanti,  Mich. 

(Prof.  Putnam  then  delivered  the  following  oration.) 

Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  —  I  am  both  proud  and  glad  to  address  you  as 
my  fellow  townsmen.  It  is  true  that  in  one  aspect  we  are  strangers. 
Your  faces  are  new  to  me  as  mine  is  to  you.  Five  and  forty  years  seem 
to  the  young  an  almost  endless  age.  They  do  indeed  form  a  large  part 
of  any  ordinary  human  life.  So  many  years  have  passed  since  I  ceased 
to  be  a  resident  of  this  my  native  town.  Only  seldom  during  all  these 
years  have  I  visited  for  a  brief  time  these  once  familiar  scenes.  A  gener- 
ation and  more  has  passed  away.  I  meet  the  children  and  the  grand- 
children of  my  school-fellows.  They  may  be  pardoned  for  looking  upon 
me  as  a  preserved  relic  of  antediluvian  times,  a  returning  Rip  Van 
Winkle  of  the  days  "before  the  war." 

Yet  some  things  are  unchanged.     "The  common"  here  where  you 
chairman  and  I  used  "  to  train,"  almost  half  a  century  ago,  m  the  then 
celebrated  "  Lyndeboro  Light  Infantry,"  is  scarcely  changed  in  a  single 
feature.     I  regret  that  the  old  "  Meeting  House  "  is  gone.     I  can  t 
my  "  mind's  eye  "  at  this  moment  its  dingy  yellow  outside,  it 
of  small  windows  ;  in  the  interior  its  square  pews,  its  ^e  gallery,  its 
high  pulpit  and  its  wonderful  "  sounding  board  "  suspended  abo 


54?  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

minjster's  head.  The  old  house  deserved  to  be  spared  and  preserved  as 
a  relic  of  the  olden  times,  and  on  account  of  the  associations  which 
had,  in  the  lapse  of  years,  gathered  about  it.  "The  mountain"  yonder 
is  the  same ;  the  hills  which  I  used  to  climb  are  the  same.  The  rocks 
are  still  here,  as  many  and  as  huge  as  ever.  I  find  the  same  narrow 
valleys  and  winding  roads.  From  the  hilltops  are  the  same  wide  views 
arid  charming  prospects  of  nature. 

One  may  be  allowed,  to  exclaim,  in  borrowed  words : 

"  Ye  crags  and  peaks,  I'm  with  you  once  again  ! 

O  sacred  forms,  how  proud  you  look  ! 
How  high  you  lift  your  heads  into  the  sky  ! 

How  huge  you  are,  how  mighty  and  how  free !  " 

An  anniversary  such  as  has  gathered  us  together  to-day  naturally 
turns  the  thoughts  of  those  who  have  reached  or  passed  the  mid-day 
point  of  life,  backward.  The  traveler,  who  climbs  with  toilsome  steps  up 
one  of  our  native  hills,  pauses  now  and  then  and  turns  to  measure  over 
with  his  eye  the  path  along  which  he  has  been  struggling,  following  all 
its  windings  and  numbering  all  its  mile-stones. 

We  have  come  from  our  homes  and  our  wanderings  to  greet  one 
another  as  we  rest  for  a  few  moments  round  about  the  hundred  and 
fiftieth  mile-stone  which  marks  the  age  of  our  municipal  life.  Looking 
backward  from  this  height  I  see  with  tolerable  distinctness  three  score  of 
these  annual  way-marks.  Five  others  are  partially  obscured  from  view 
by  the  haze  which  covers  early  childhood.  Some  of  you  can  see  as 
many ;  a  few  can  count  a  larger  number ;  most  of  you  stop  reckoning 
before  you  reach  a  score  and  a  half. 

In  addressing  you  under  these  circumstances  I  find  myself  impelled 
to  speak  briefly  of  some  of  the  things  which  have  been  crowded  into  the 
space  of  five  and  sixty  years,  to  note  a  few  of  the  changes  which  have 
taken  place,  and  to  inquire  whether,  on  the  whole,  real,  healthful  and 
hopeful  progress  has  been  made.  Our  starting  point  is  the  year  1824. 
The  second  term  of  the  fifth  President  of  the  United  States  was  drawing 
towards  its  close.  Only  forty-eight  years  had  passed  since  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence  and  only  thirty-five  since  the  organization  of  the 
government  under  the  constitution.  Many  of  the  younger  actors  in  the 
great  Revolution,  and  in  the  events  which  immediately  followed,  were 
still  vigorous  and  influential  in  public  affairs.  Two  years  later,  on  the 
fourth  of  July,  just  fifty  years  from  the  day  when  the  Declaration  of 
Independence  was  promulgated,  the  second  and  third  presidents  of  the 
republic  passed  away. 

During  the  years  which  have  intervened  the  territory  of  the  country 
has  been  enlarged  at  least  three-fold ;  the  states  have  increased  from 
twenty-four  to  forty-two,  and  the  population  has  grown  from  ten  millions 
to  more  than  sixty  millions. 

The  progress  in  inventions,  in  sciences  and  arts  in  machinery,  in  means 
of  travel  and  transportation,  indeed  in  everything  which  has  to  do  with 
civilix.ation  and  with  the  comforts  and  conveniences  of  life,  has  been 
simply  marvelous.  The  wildest  dreams  of  imagination  have  been  more 
than  realized.  In  my  early  boyhood  the  stage-coach  afforded  the  most 


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rapid  means  of  conveyance,  and  goods  were  transported  into  the  interior 
of  the  country  by  huge,  lumbering  wagons  drawn  by  four,  six,  or  eight 
horses.  The  Erie  canal  was  opened  in  1825,  and  the  first  railroad  in  the 
United  States  was  put  in  operation  in  1826.  This  was  the  Quincy  road, 
less  than  four  miles  in  length,  operated  by  horse-power,  and  used  to 
transport  the  granite  from  the  quarries  to  tidewater.  Locomotives  were 
first  employed  for  railroad  transportation  in  1829  or  1830.  These  were 
crude  in  form  and  construction,  weighing  scarcely  more  than  a  ton. 
The  first  telegraph  line  was  erected  and  the  first  message  transmitted 
over  the  wires -in  1844.  The  first  really  successful  Atlantic  cable  was  laid 
in  1866.  Time  does  not  permit  me  to  speak  of  the  sewing-machine,  of 
mowers  and  reapers,  of  the  telephone  and  of  the  thousand  other  wonders 
of  the  last  half  of  this  nineteenth  century. 

Our  progress  in  the  directions  to  which  I  have  thus  hastily  referred  is 
so  obvious  and  so  gratifying  to  the  natural  vanity  of  the  human  mind 
that  we  never  tire  in  boasting  of  it.  It  would  be  worse  than  folly  to  be- 
little this  progress  even  if  one  were  so  disposed. 

But  widening  territory,  increasing  population,  accumulating  wealth  of 
material  resources  are  not  the  sole,  or  even  the  most  important  indica- 
tions of  real  advancement  either  in  a  nation  or  in  a  limited,  local  com- 
munity. We  can  judge  more  correctly  and  wisely  in  respect  to  the  prog- 
ress when  we  know  how  this  territory  is  occupied,  improved  and 
governed ;  when  we  know  of  what  sort  and  character  this  swelling  popu- 
lation is,  and  when  we  have  learned  in  what  ways  these  resources  are 
used.  The  present  must  be  compared  with  the  past  if  we  would  be  sure 
in  respect  to  the  character  of  the  changes  which  have  taken  place,  and 
would  determine  whether,  on  the  whole,  the  condition  of  things  is  better 
than  it  was  half  a  century  ago. 

It  will  be  impossible  to  make  any  general  comparison,  beyond  that 
already  indicated,  that  of  the  New  England  of  today  with  the  New 
England  of  the  times  of  Andrew  Jackson  or  of  the  grandfather  of  the 
present  President  of  the  United  States ;  or  of  the  Lyndeborough  of  1889 
with  the  L,yndeborough  of  1839,  the  Lyndeborough  of  my  youth.  But  it 
may  be  of  service  to  us,  especially  to  the  younger  of  us,  to  institute  such 
a  comparison  in  a  few  particulars. 

It  may  be  frankly  admitted  that  a  sort  of  halo  seems,  at  times,  to 
gather  about  the  heads  of  the  men  and  women  of  our  childhood.  Dis- 
tance obscures  roughness  of  character  as  it  does  roughness  of  the  land- 
scape. It  hides  many  a  sharp  angle  and  uncouth  feature  of  the  form  and 
face  as  it  does  those  of  the  hills  and  mountains.  In  remembrance,  time 
mellows  dispositions  as  it  does  unripe  fruits.  In  our  comparisons  we 
shall  strive  to  guard  against  the  influence  of  this  weakness  of  nature. 

It  is  natural  to  commence  with  the  population  itself.     How  does  the 
general  character  of  the  population  of  to-day  compare  with  that  of  fifty 
years  ago  ?     At  that  time  the  population  of  the  rural  New  England  towns 
was,  in  the  main,  homogeneous.     Within   the  range  of  my  immediate 
personal  acquaintance  in  boyhood  I  can  recall  but  a  single  family  of 
foreign  birth.     The  families  were  all  of  essentially  the  same  stock,  d. 
scendants   of    the  original   settlers.     In    some    cases    nearly    half 
families  of  a  neighborhood  bore  the  same  surname.    There  were  no  race 


550  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

separations,  distinctions  or  prejudices.  The  people  spoke  the  same  lan- 
guage, had  the  same  traditions,  and  were  animated  by  the  same  prin- 
ciples. They  were,  in  some  cases,  narrow,  provincial,  an  unfriendly 
critic  would  probably  say,  bigoted.  They  clung  with  great  tenacity  to 
inherited  peculiarities,  and  without  doubt  overestimated  the  value  and 
importance  of  some  religious  and  political  dogmas.  But  they  were 
Americans,  and  Americans  only,  without  prefix  or  suffix.  They  were 
neither  Irish-Americans,  nor  German-Americans,  nor  French-Americans, 
nor  any  other  qualified  sort  of  Americans,  but  Americans  pure  and 
simple. 

It  is  hardly  necessary  to  say  that  to  day  the  population  of  New  England 
is  far  less  homogeneous.  Not  only  the  great  cities  and  large  villages 
but,  in  some  sections,  the  country  districts  are  becoming  filled  with  men 
and  women  of  foreign  birth.  According  to  a  recent  writer,  in  one  of  our 
periodicals,  in  Massachusetts  "Out  of  a  population  of  1,942,142,  the 
foreign-born  number  526,867,  not  including  such  children  of  alien  parent- 
age as  have  been  born  in  the  United  States.  The  foreign-born  represent 
one-fifth  of  the  people  employed  in  agriculture,  one-half  of  those  em- 
ployed in  the  fisheries,  two-fifths  of  those  employed  in  the  manufactures, 
and  two-thirds  of  those  employed  in  mining  and  as  laborers." 

The  mass  of  the  foreign  population  of  New  England  has  come  from 
Ireland  and  Canada.  The  great  influx  of  immigration  from  Ireland 
began  about  1847.  The  Canadian  French  began  to  come  in  large  numbers 
about  1867.  The  inflow  still  continues  in  undiminished  volume. 
"  Two  successive  steamers  of  one  line  brought  to  the  port  of  Boston  in 
April  last,  2,100  steerage  passengers  from  Ireland,  eleven-twelfths  of 
whom  intended  settling  in  New  England,  and  almost  every  train  from 
Canada  brings  from  one  to  three  cars  filled  with  French  Canadians 
seeking  new  homes  in  Massachusetts  and  her  sister  states." 

The  rapidity  with  which  the  French  population  has  increased  in  New 
England  is  almost  beyond  belief.  "  In  Manchester,  out  of  a  population 
of  40,000,  12,000  are  of  this  nationality.  In  Nashua,  out  of  a  population 
of  17,500,  5,500  are  French,  a  gain  of  fully  one-half  in  five  years.  In 
Lowell  they  constitute  one-third  of  the  population."  Many  other  large 
towns  and  cities  show  a  like  condition  of  affairs. 

It  is  not  necessary  to  make  further  quotations  of  statistics.  The  facts 
are  doubtless  familiar  to  you,  and  you  can  sum  up  for  yourselves  the 
results  of  our  comparison.  Even  the  most  hopeful  will  hesitate  to  declare 
the  new  condition  of  things  better  than  the  old  in  respect  to  population. 

I  am  conscious  of  no  prejudice  against  men  born  in  other  lands  and 
bred  under  the  influence  of  institutions  different  from  our  own.  I  count 
among  such  some  of  my  warmest  personal  friends  and  most  esteemed 
associates. 

But  have  we  not  flung  our  doors  open  too  wide  ?  Can  we  afford  to 
admit  and  welcome  without  discrimination?  We  have  barred  our  West- 
ern gates  against  the  "heathen  Chinee,"  but  our  Northern  and  Eastern 
gates  are  practically  unguarded.  Let  intelligence  and  virtue  come,  but 
we  have  no  room  for  more  of  ignorance,  and  vice  and  crime.  Of  these 
we  have  more  than  enough  of  native  production.  The  paupers  and 
anarchists  of  Europe  are  as  much  to  be  dreaded  as  the  coolies  of  Asia. 


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The  ignorance  and  illiteracy  of  the  North  are  as  dangerous  to  the  purity 
of  the  ballot-box  and  the  permanency  of  our  institutions  as  those  of  the 
South. 

A  comparison  of  social  and  political  conditions  naturally  follows  the 
comparison  of  population. 

A  hundred  or  even  fifty  years  ago,  the  New  England  towns  afforded  the 
best  known  example  of  a  pure  democracy.  This  was  true  not  only  in 
respect  to  affairs  of  government,  but  also  in  respect  to  social  conditions. 
There  were  no  fixed  and  recognized  lines  dividing  the  people  into  classes 
or  casts.  There  were  then,  as  there  always  have  been  and  always  will  be, 
differences  in  intelligence,  in  education,  in  refinement,  in  wealth,  in  in- 
fluence, indeed  in  everything  in  which  men  can  differ.  But  such  differ- 
ences were  incidental,  individual,  and  temporary.  There  were  no  classes 
of  capitalists  and  laborers;  of  employers  and  employees.  No  young  man 
regarded  himself  as  born  into  a  caste,  and  as  belonging  to  a  particular 
class  of  society.  No  young  woman  thought  of  herself  as  predestined,  by 
the  accident  of  birth,  to  be  a  servant  or  a  mistress,  an  employer  or  a 
drudge.  The  boy  worked  on  the  farm  or  in  the  shop  of  his  neighbor. 
But  he  worked  with  his  employer  as  well  as  for  him.  The  girl  did  ser- 
vice in  the  kitchen  of  her  mother's  neighbor  and  friend,  but  her  social 
position  was  not  thereby  changed.  The  next  year  the  boy  became  owner 
of  a  farm,  and  very  likely  employed  the  son  of  his  former  employer. 
The  girl  became  mistress  of  her  own  house,  and  in  turn  employed  the 
daughters  of  her  neighbors.  The  employed  and  the  employers  were  of 
the  same  stock  and  often  of  kindred  blood,  and  were  constantly  chang- 
ing places  and  relations.  Social  equality  was  not  disturbed. 

Even  where  large  numbers  of  persons  were  employed  the  conditions 
were  essentially  the  same.  In  my  early  boyhood  the  newly-erected  cot- 
ton mills  of  Nashua  and  Lowell  were  filled  with  the  self-respecting  and 
respected  sons  and  daughters  of  New  England  farmers  and  mechanics. 
The  "  overseers "  and  the  "hands  "were  often  old  acquaintances  and 
friends,  frequently  from  the  same  neighborhoods  and  the  same  families. 
Outside  the  work-rooms  they  met  and  associated  on  terms  of  perfect 
equality. 

While  doubtless  something  of  this  old  condition  of  equality  still  sur- 
vives in  towns  like  our  own,  and  in  communities  which  have  retained 
their  original  homogeneous  character,  it  has  almost  entirely  disappeared 
in  the  large  cities  and  in  all  the  great  manufacturing  establishments. 
During  the  last  quarter  of  a  century  there  has  been  a  constantly  increas- 
ing tendency  towards  the  creation  of  permanent  classes  in  society  and 
towards  the  formation  of  sharp  and  clearly  defined  lines  of  separation 
between  these  classes.  These  lines  run  through  social  life  and  social 
organizations  ;  in  some  quarters  they  appear  in  religious  life  and  relig- 
ious organizations ;  and  they  are  beginning  to  make  their  way  into  the 
dangerous  domain  of  politics,  and  threaten  to  become  the  basis  of  politi- 
cal organizations  and  political  action. 

It  will  have  to  be  admitted,  I  think,  that  our  present  social  and  poli 
cal  conditions  do  not,  on  the  whole,  compare  favorably  with  those  which 
existed  half  a  century  ago.     Some  real  dangers  threaten  us.     These  s 
serious  enough  to  cause  apprehension  if  not  alarm.     Some  tendencies 


552  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

must  be  checked,  and  some  acknowledged  evils  must  be  corrected  if  our 
institutions  are  to  be  maintained  in  their  purity  and  integrity.  The 
right  of  suffrage  must  be  so  guarded  that  the  reported  result  of  an  elec- 
tion shall  indicate  the  will  of  the  majority  of  the  actual  voters.  If  in  a 
sharply  contested  election  voters  can  be  sold  and  bought  like  cattle,  at 
so  much  a  head  ;  if  votes  can  be  bargained  for  like  any  other  marketable 
commodity ;  if  the  tricks  of  petty  ward  politicians  and  the  manipula- 
tions of  self-constituted  leaders  are  to  determine  candidates  and  control 
the  policies  of  great  parties  then  our  boasted  right  of  suffrage  is  a  worth- 
less form,  a  mocker  and  a  delusion,  and  our  elections  are  a  costly  and 
solemn  farce. 

If,  in  addition  to  all  this,  men  are  to  bring  over  from  the  old  countries 
the  prejudices  of  race,  and  the  political  and  sectarian  animosities  of  by- 
gone ages,  and  are  to  nourish  their  barbarous  hates  and  to  fight  out  their 
senseless  quarrels  on  our  soil,  in  our  streets,  and  about  our  ballot  boxes, 
then  indeed  have  our  politics  become  degraded,  and  danger  has  become 
really  alarming.  America  has  need  of  only  American  citizens  and 
American  voters,  and  of  American  questions  and  issues  in  our  politics 
and  at  our  polls. 

Time  does  not  permit  further  comparisons  in  these  directions.  The 
conclusions  thus  far  reached  are  not  calculated  to  flatter  our  vanity  or  to 
foster  our  pride.  If  our  examinations  were  to  be  closed  just  here  the 
outlook  for  the  future  would  not  be  encouraging.  We  should  enter  upon 
the  next  half  century  with  gloomy  forebodings.  I  do  not,  however, 
share  very  largely  in  the  excessive  fears  of  the  timid,  or  in  the  terrible 
prognostications  of  evil  uttered  by  the  pessimistic  prophets  of  the  day. 

Allusion  has  already  been  made  to  the  great  influx  of  emigrants  of 
different  nationalities ;  many  of  them  ignorant  of  the  nature  of  our  in- 
stitutions and  of  the  duties  and  responsibilities  of  citizenship ;  not  a 
few  of  them  imbued  with  socialistic  and  anarchic  ideas,  with  confused 
notions  of  the  distinction  between  regulated  liberty  and  unbridled 
license,  impatient  of  necessary  restraint  and  destitute  of  sympathy  with 
many  of  the  social  and  religious  customs  and  the  political  traditions  of 
the  native  population. 

Reference  has  also  been  made  to  the  tendency  towards  the  formation 
of  opposing  and  hostile  classes  ;  to  the  disposition  to  create  antagonism 
between  labor  and  capital ;  to  array  the  employed  against  the  employers  j 
to  engender  hatred  in  the  poor  against  the  rich,  and  even  to  deny  the 
right  to  hold  private  property,  and  to  make  the  possession  of  individual 
accumulations  a  crime  against  humanity.  The  teaching  of  these  social- 
istic theories  and  leveling  doctrines  derives  its  chief  force  from  some 
unfortunate  and  alarming  conditions  of  our  times. 

It  cannot  be  denied  that  there  is  danger,  not  only  to  our  political  in- 
stitutions, but  even  to  the  stability  of  our  present  social  organization,  in 
the  rapidly  growing  tendency  to  the  accumulation  of  colossal  fortunes 
in  the  hands  of  a  few  men  and  a  few  families,  if  the  laws  are  to  be  so 
framed  and  so  administered  as  to  render  such  fortunes  permanent  in 
these  families.  At  the  present  day  intelligent  and  benevolent  men,  as 
much  as  the  ignorant  and  selfish,  instinctively  revolt  against  any  social 
or  political  system  which  allows  a  concentration  of  power  or  of  wealth 


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in  the  hands  of  a  small  minority.  There  is  peril  when  the  few  become 
very  rich  and  the  many  become  very  poor,  and  more  especially  if  there 
are  indications  that  such  a  state  of  affairs  is  to  become  a  permanent  con- 
dition. 

It  is  easy  to  delude  ourselves  with  the  idea  that,  in  some  way,  things 
will  settle  themselves;  that  the  laws  of  supply  and  demand,  the  laws  of 
business  and  of  the  "  survival  of  the  fittest "  will  solve  all  these  per. 
plexing  and  dangerous  problems.  We  shall  do  well  to  remember  that 
natural  laws  are  slow  in  their  operation,  and  that  human  nature  is  rest- 
less and  impatient  when  constantly  excited  by  crafty  and  plausible 
appeals  of  artful  demagogues  and  irritated  by  real  or  fancied  wrongs. 
It  is  better  economy  to  guard  against  an  explosion  than  to  expend  means 
in  gathering  up  and  caring  for  broken  fragments.  It  is  wiser  to  prevent 
a  conflagration  than  to  show  energy  and*  skill  in  putting  out  the  fire 
after  it  gets  under  good  headway ;  better,  if  possible,  to  allay  rising  dis- 
content than  to  risk  the  action  of  a  brutal  mob. 

Freely  conceding  the  existence  of  real  dangers  and  of  serious  and 
growing  evils,  I  sse  no  reason  for  despairing  of  the  republic,  or  for  ap- 
prehending some  overwhelming  disaster  to  our  social,  religious,  and 
political  institutions.  I  do  not  believe  that,  on  the  whole,  the  former 
days  were  better  than  the  present,  that  the  fathers  were  essentially 
wiser,  more  virtuous,  and  more  patriotic  than  their  children.  On  the 
contrary,  in  many  directions,  real,  genuine  progress  has  been  made. 
While  it  must  be  readily  granted  that  in  some  things  we  are  worse  than 
the  men  of  fifty  years  ago,  it  may  be  safely  claimed  that  in  other  things 
we  have  improved  upon  their  teachings,  examples  and  methods. 

While  our  times  have  less  of  certain  types  of  religion,  they  have  more 
of  practical  Christianity.  They  are  without  doubt  less  tenacious  of 
theological  dogmas  ;  less  militant  in  the  defense  and  propagation  of 
iron-clad  creeds ;  less  positive  in  claiming  to  possess  and  to  hold  all  re- 
vealed truth  ;  less  harsh  and  denunciatory  in  dealing  with  those  who 
differ  from  accepted  standards.  But  the  sweet  graces  of  divine  love  and 
charity  and  beneficence  are  more  cultivated  and  exhibit  a  richer  growth. 
The  gospel  of  "  good  will  to  men  "  is  more  earnestly  preached  and  more 
constantly  and  consistently  practiced.  In  spite  of  the  tendency  to  the 
formation  of  classes,  in  spite  of  the  prejudice  arising  from  the  accidents 
of  race  and  color,  simple  manhood,  without  reference  to  birth  or  to  past 
or  present  conditions  and  circumstances,  is  held  in  higher  esteem  and 
treated  with  more  respect  than  in  former  times. 

Call  to  mind  the  radical  change  of  sentiment  and  action  touching  the 
questions  of  human  bondage,  and  the  education  of  the  negro  race, 
have  no  reference  to  the  positions  and  teachings  of  political  parties 
religious  organizations,  but  to  the  general  tone  of  public  opinion  and 
the  conduct  of  men  irrespective  of  party  or  sect. 

Happily  to  many  of  you  slavery  and  the  heated  and  bitter  controver- 
sies growing  out  of  it  are  only  matters  of  history,  like  the  discovery  ot 
America  and  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.    To  us,  whose  memories  ean 
traverse  the  period  of  fifty  years,  they  are  not  so  much  history  as  nv 
and  terrible  realities.     Our  fathers  had  solemnly  affirmed  that  » 
have  an  inalienable  right  to  "life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of 


554   .  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

By  a  strange  inconsistency  they  denied  to  a  whole  race,  guilty  of  only 
a  darker  skin  and  thicker  lips  than  their  own,  every  right  which  renders 
life  desirable  or  existence  tolerable.  Men,  women,  children  were  bought 
and  sold  like  horses  and  sheep.  No  ties  of  blood  or  family  were  re- 
garded as  sacred.  To  teach  a  slave  to  read  was  a  crime  punishable  by 
long  and  hard  imprisonment.  A  public  meeting  of  intelligent  citizens 
and  respectable  members  of  Christian  churches,  held  not  in  South  Caro- 
lina but  in  Connecticut,  resolved  that  it  is  "Highly  inexpedient  and 
even  dangerous  to  the  peace  of  the  community  to  teach  the  negroes  to 
read  and  write."  The  city  of  New  Haven,  at  a  meeting  held  with  the 
mayor  as  chairman,  voted  by  a  majority  of  700  to  4,  "That  the  founding 
of  colleges  for  educating  colored  people  is  an  unwarrantable  and  danger- 
ous interference  with  the  internal  concerns  of  other  States,  and  ought 
to  be  discouraged."  "  That  the  establishment  in  New  Haven  of  such  a 
college  is  incompatible  with  the  prosperity,  if  not  the  existence,  of  the 
present  institutions  of  learning  and  will  be  destructive  of  the  best  in- 
terests of  the  city." 

In  some  places  in  the  Northern  States  mobs  tore  down  school  build- 
ings erected  for  the  education  of  free  colored  children,  and  compelled 
the  teachers  to  flee  for  their  lives. 

Statesmen  defended  slavery  on  constitutional  grounds  in  the  Senate, 
and  learned  divines  defended  it  on  Bible  grounds  in  the  church.  The 
honored  president  of  Dartmouth  College,  whose  name  and  memory  I 
hold  in  highest  reverence,  while  I  was  a  student  in  that  institution, 
affirmed,  with  strong  emphasis,  that  prophecy  and  history,  the  will  of 
God  and  the  interests  of  humanity,  united  in  declaring  that  bondage 
was  the  natural  and  proper  condition  of  the  African  race. 

Since  those  days,  slavery,  though  protected  by  constitutions  and  laws, 
by  compromises  and  resolutions,  has  been  swept  away  by  a  terrible 
deluge  of  human  blood.  The  hot  flames  of  Civil  War  have  burned 
away  the  barriers  which  barred  the  progress  of  the  colored  race  and 
closed  against  them  the  schoolhouse  and  the  college.  The  logic  of 
events  and  the  mighty  workings  of  an  over-ruling  Providence  have  con- 
verted both  statesmen  and  divines  to  a  new  gospel  of  universal  freedom. 
It  is  no  longer  considered  dangerous  to  teach  negro  children  to  read  and 
write.  The  good  citizens  of  New  Haven  do  not  tremble  lest  the  estab- 
lishment of  colleges  for  colored  young  men  and  women  will  shake  the 
solid  foundations  of  Yale  university.  The  various  religious  denomina- 
tions emulate  each  other  in  contributions  of  men  and  means  for  opening 
and  supporting  institutions  of  learning  for  the  emancipated  slaves  and 
their  children.  The  South  is  not  much  behind  the  North  in  this  benefi- 
cent and  Christian  work.  A  recent  document  states  that  since  1862  there 
have  been  expended  the  following  sums  for  the  education  of  the  colored 
people  of  the  South  : 

By  the  American  Missionary  Association,  $10,000,000 
Methodists,  2,250,000 

Baptists,  2,000,000 

Presbyterians,  1,600,000 

Others,  1,009,000 


Making  a  total  of  $16,850,000 


ANNIVERSARY   CELEBRATION  555 

The  Southern  States  have  expended  since  1868  for  common  and  normal 
schools  for  the  colored  race,  137,000,000. 

Will  anyone  venture  to  assert  that  the  former  days  of  slavery  and 
oppression  were  better  than  these  latter  days  of  freedom  and  education  ? 

There  are  serious  problems  yet  unsolved  touching  the  emancipated 
race.  But  in  view  of  what  has  already  been  accomplished,  we  may  face 
the  perplexities  and  dangers  of  the  future  without  overmuch  apprehen- 
sion or  fear. 

Time  forbids  an  extension  of  th,ese  comparisons.  But  it  could  easily 
be  shown  that  real  and  healthful  advance  has  been  made  in  general  edu- 
cation and  in  many  departments  of  moral  reform.  Genuine  progress 
has  been  made  in  the  temperance  work,  and  in  moral  and  legal  efforts 
for  the  suppression  of  the  traffic  in  intoxicating  liquors.  "  Evil  men 
and  seducers  may  have  waxed  worse  and  worse,"  but  public  sentiment  in 
most  of  our  communities  and  in  the  nation  at  large,  in  spite  of  many 
drawbacks,  has  steadily  improved. 

And  whatever  provisions  may  be  put  in  or  left  out  of  the  constitution 
of  a  State,  whatever  laws  may  be  enacted  or  repealed,  this  remains  true 
always  and  everywhere  :  that  all  permanent  progress,  either  in  political 
or  moral  reform,  must  have  its  basis  and  support  in  an  intelligent  public 
sentiment.  What  the  majority  of  the  people  demand  in  respect  to 
temperance,  or  civil  service  reform,  or  emigration,  or  the  public  lands, 
they  will  ultimately  get.  Vexatious  delays  may  be  met,  but  the  final 
result  is  sure.  The  waiting  may  be  long  and  tiresome,  but  patient  and 
persevering  effort  finally  has  its  reward.  Right  and  truth  will  conquer 
in  the  end. 

How  can  one  who  believes  there  is  a  just,  righteous,  all-wise  and 
almighty  Ruler  of  all  things  doubt  the  ultimate  triumph  of  justice  and 
righteousness  ?  This  triumph  will  be  secured,  not  by  irresistible  mani- 
festations of  supernatural  power,  but  by  the  working  together  of  all 
principles,  forces,  and  agencies,  human  and  divine,  which  have  for  their 
end  the  production  and  spread  of  justice  and  righteousness  in  the  world. 
Among  the  agencies  which  have  been  mighty  in  the  past,  and  are  still 
mighty  in  every  good  work  for  the  elevation  and  redemption  of  humanity 
are  the  principles  and  characters  of  the  fathers  and  mothers  who  planted 
the  rural  towns  of  New  England,  and  whose  mortal  remains  sleep  be- 
neath the  soil  which  they  loved.  They  were  not  perfect  men  and  women. 
We  do  not  honor  them  most  by  claiming  for  them  that  ideal  perfecti* 
which  they  never  thought  of  claiming  for  themselves.  They  were  merely 
human.  But,  taken  all  in  all,  the  world  has  not  yet  seen  a  nobler,  ai 
truer,  and  grander  generation. 

It  is  possible  that  the  towns  and  states  which  they  founded  may  pas 
under  the  control  of  men  of  a  different  race  and  of  another  faith,  but 
their  principles  and  deeds  have  not  perished,  and  will  not  perish, 
seeds  of  truth  which  they  planted  have  sprung  up  and  are  bearing  n 
fruits  in  fertile  fields  which  their  eyes  never  saw.   The  empire  whicl 
its  beginning  here  among  these  rocky  hills  and  in  the  shadows  of 
rough  mountains  has  transferred  the  seat  and  center  of  its  power  to  th 
broader  plains  and  richer  soil  of  the  West.     New  England  lives  m        to 
and  Michigan,  and  Iowa,  and  other  of  the  newer  'states.     Her  s 


556  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

daughters  do  not  cease  to  remember  the  mother  who  nourished  their  in- 
fancy, though  her  features  are  rugged  and  her  face  is  wrinkled  with  many 
a  deep-plowed  furrow.  As  we  re-visit  the  scenes  of  childhood  we  do  not 
hesitate  to  repeat  the  words  of  Scott — 

"  Breathes  there  a  man  with  soul  so  dead, 

Who  never  to  himself  hath  said, 
This  is  my  own,  my  native  land  ; 

Whose  heart  hath  ne'er  within  him  burned 
As  home  his  footsteps  he  hath  turned, 
From  wandering  on  a  foreign  strand  ?  " 

We  enter  into  the  feeings  of  Bryant  when  he  wrote — 

"  Thou  who  wouldst  see  the  lovely  and  the  wild 

Mingled  in  harmony  on  Nature's  face, 
Ascend  our  rocky  mountains.     I/et  thy  foot 
Fail  not  with  weariness,  for  on  their  tops 
The  beauty  and  the  majesty  of  earth 

Spread  wide  beneath,  shall  make  thee  to  forget 
The  steep  and  toilsome  way.     There  as  thou  stand'st, 

The  haunts  of  men  below  thee,  and  around 
The  mountain's  summits,  thy  expanding  heart 

Shall  feel  a  kindred  with  that  loftier  world 
To  which  thou  art  translated,  and  partake 

The  enlargement  of  thy  vision." 

As  I  close,  permit  me  to  record  once  more  the  oath  of  allegiance  and 
fidelity  to  the  State  and  the  town  of  my  birth.  The  remains  of  four 
generations  of  my  ancestors  sleep  beneath  this  soil,  and  render  it 
"  hallowed  ground."  These  rough  fields,  these  narrow  valleys,  these 
winding  highways,  these  rocky  hills,  these  rugged  mountains  have 
charms  for  my  eye  and  my  heart  which  no  other  lands  possess.  I  love 
the  rich  and  beautiful  State  of  my  adoption,  with  her  broad  and  fertile 
fields,  with  her  magnificent  forests,  with  her  exhaustless  mines,  with  her 
grand  lakes,  and  her  intelligent  and  enterprising  population  :  but  "  if  I 
forget  thee,  Jerusalem  of  my  birth  and  boyhood,  let  my  right  hand  for- 
get her  cunning ;  if  I  do  not  remember  thee,  let  my  tongue  cleave  to 
the  roof  of  my  mouth  ;  if  I  prefer  not  the  Jerusalem  of  New  Kngland 
above  my  chief  joy." 

The  President.  A  fine  display  of  fireworks,  consisting  of 
rockets,  Roman  candles,  and  mines,  to  close  with  a  set  piece  pre- 
pared for  the  day,  has  been  provided  by  the  Boutwell  family. 
This  will  be  exhibited  on  the  common  by  a  professional  from 
Boston  as  early  in  the  evening  as  it  is  possible  to  do  so.  All  are 
cordially  invited  to  attend. 

This  concludes  the  speaking  by  those  who  have  prepared  ad- 
dresses for  this  occasion  from  manuscript.  I  now  have  the 
pleasure  of  introducing  to  you  Jacob  A.  Woodward,  who  will 
take  charge  of  the  further  proceedings  in  my  place. 

Mr.  Woodward.     Ladies  and  gentlemen :  Before  proceeding 


ANNIVERSARY   CELEBRATION  557 

to  the  task  which  has  been  assigned  to  me,  you  will  please  par- 
don one  brief  thought.  While  we  have  met  here  together  to 
renew  old  acquaintances  and  to  form  new  acquaintances,  and  to 
revive  the  happy  memories  of  young  manhood  and  young 
womanhood,  this  thought  conies  to  me  :  that  we  should  this  day 
give  some  meed  of  honor  to  the  gray-haired  men  and  women 
who  have  been  true  to  old  I/yndeborough  and  have  remained 
here,  and  who  make  this  celebration  to-day  possible.  While 
we  reverence  and  honor  the  names  of  those  who  founded  this 
town,  I  still  submit  that  it  is  those  who  live  here  to-day  and  are 
to  remain  here  who  make  the  town  what  it  is  and  what  it  is  to 
be.  And  I  call  upon  all  residents  of  the  town,  to-day,  upon  this 
one  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  its  settlement,  to  pledge 
ourselves  anew,  that  whatever  is  tried  that  is  new  and  that  is 
practical,  we  will  adopt  it  in  our  industry  ;  that  whatever  is  new 
and  best,  we  will  have  it  in  our  schools  and  upon  our  roads ; 
that  we  will  give  a  liberal  support  to  all  of  our  institutions  ;  and 
that  Lyndeborough  shall  have  the  reputation,  and  deserve  it,  of 
being  a  live,  go-ahead  place,  abreast  of  the  times.  Communism 
and  anarchy  do  not  flourish  in  the  homes  under  the  shadows  of 
these  hills. 

In  giving  the  first  sentiment  that  is  to  be  responded  to,  I 
would  say,  by  way  of  introduction,  that  whenever  you  mention 
the  military  record  of  I/yndeborough,  every  true  son  of  I/ynde- 
borough stands  up  a  little  straighter  and  says,  ' '  You  can  scruti- 
nize that  record  as  much  as  you  please!"  The  sentiment  is, 
"Our  Military  Men." 

From  Bunker  Hill  to  Appomattox,  from  '76  to  '61,  when  duty  called, 
the  men  of  Lyndeborough  responded  where 

"...  Bursting  shell,  the  gateway  wrenched  asunder, 
The  rattling  musketry,  the  clashing  blade. 

And  ever  and  anon,  in  tones  of  thunder, 
The  diapason  of  the  cannonade." 

Our  military  record,  second  to  none. 

About  a  year  before  the  civil  war  opened,  up  here  in  District 
No.  2,  a  district  which  has  the  reputation  of  sending  out  lots  of 
live,  smart  and  mischievous  men,  a  young  man  went  out  into 
the  world  to  try  his  skill  in  its  warfare.     When  duty  called  he 
responded,  and  has  made  for  himself  a  name  and  fame, 
needs  no  introduction  from  me  to  many  of  you.     Ladies 
gentlemen,  I  have  the  pleasure  of  introducing  to  you  Surgeon- 
General  Holt  of  Cambridge,  Massachusetts. 


558  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

Gen.  Holt.  Mr.  Chairman,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  Fellow- townsmen  : 
Before  commencing  the  few  sentences  that  I  am  to  utter,  I  wish  to  say  a 
word  of  explanation  or  apology.  I  had  supposed  up  to  yesterday  morn- 
ing that  it  would  not  be  possible  for  me  to  be  present  at  this  celebration, 
although  no  amount  of  inconvenience  or  expense  to  myself  would  have 
kept  me  away.  I  supposed  that  I  should  be  employed  in  a  Government 
office  which  I  am  unfortunate  enough  to  hold,  that  would,  perhaps,  call 
fifteen  or  twenty  veteran  soldiers  from  their  homes  all  over  Massachu- 
setts, and  I  felt  that  I  had  no  right  to  put  them  to  that  inconvenience. 
But,  happily,  we  were  able  to  arrange  the  matter  yesterday,  and  so  I  am 
here.  But  1^ have  been  able  to  give  but  very  little  thought  to  the  sen- 
timent that  your  toastmaster  has  asked  me  to  respond  to. 

One  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago  this  fall,  our  sturdy  ancestors  came 
into  the  wilderness  that  clothed  these  grand  old  hills,  and  carved  out  for 
themselves  and  their  children,  homes.  And  among  their  first  thoughts 
was  that  of  caring  for  their  own  protection.  Although  the  savage  Indian 
had  been  driven  from  all  the  southern  part  of  New  England,  still  lie  was 
jealous  of  the  approaching  civilization,  and  sought  every  opportunity  to 
get  revenge ;  and  so  the  settlers  of  the  extreme  frontier  were  never  with- 
out danger  of  attacks  from  them,  and  the  settlers  here,  as  tradition  says, 
like  those  elsewhere,  built  for  their  protection  a  block  house.  It  is  not 
probable  that  they  had  any  military  organization  at  that  early  day, 
although  it  is  more  than  probable  that  there  was  some  leader  to  whom 
they  looked  up  in  times  of  danger.  And  if  they  did  not  have  a  man 
worthy  of  that  high  place,  they  certainly  had  a  leader  in  the  woman  that 
the  speaker  mentioned  this  morning,  who  called  the  roll  of  her  children 
when  the  Indian  was  crawling  about  her  home.  It  is  probable  that  they 
had  more  or  less  alarms,  when  they  fled  to  this  block  house  for  protec- 
tion, but  time  has  proved  that  such  alarms  were  causeless ;  and  in  a  few 
years  the  fast  advancing  settlement,  of  the  surrounding  country  freed 
them  from  the  danger  of  Indians.  It  is  more  than  probable  that  some  of 
the  restive  spirits  joined  in  some  of  the  contests  against  the  Indians  and 
French  that  took  place  between  1739  and  1775,  but  there  was  no  organi- 
zation for  such  a  purpose. 

The  great  war  for  Independence,  like  all  great  wars,  and  particularly 
like  all  great  civil  wars,  came  unheralded,  and,  up  to  the  igth  of  April, 
1775,  there  was  little  or  no  thought  of  a  contest  of  arms,  although  the 
colonies  had  been  outspoken  in  their  opposition  to  the  wrong  and  injus- 
tice that  had  been  heaped  upon  them,  and  revolts  and  riots  had  occurred 
in  two  or  three  instances.  It  is  said  that  one  of  the  officers  of  L,ouis 
XVI.  carried  to  his  master  the  news  of  a  riot  in  the  streets  of  Paris  just 
before  the  French  Revolution,  when  the  starving  people  were  crying  for 
bread.  The  monarch  listened  impatiently  to  the  recital  and  said,  "  It  is 
nothing  but  a  riot ;  the  troops  can  dispel  them."  But  the  officer,  more 
observing  than  his  master,  knowing  better  the  temper  of  the  people,  an- 
swered, "  No,  sire,  it  is  not  a  riot,  but  a  revolution."  So,  when  the  mid- 
night courier  fled  like  a  phantom  through  the  streets  of  Cambridge  and 
on,  calling  to  arms,  on  the  morning  of  the  igth  of  April,  1775,  it  was  not 
a  riot  or  a  revolt,  but  it  was  a  revolution.  The  people  in  the  colonies 
had  borne  until  it  had  ceased  to  be  a  virtue,  and  they  were  obliged  to  re- 


559 

sort  to  arms  to  obtain  right  and  justice.  We  all  know  that  the  battle  of 
Lexington  and  Concord  was  fought  by  a  few  companies  that  had  been 
aroused  by  the  ride  of  Paul  Revere,  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  Boston, 
for  there  was  no  time  to  collect  troops  from  anywhere  else.  But  the 
spirit  of  revolt  was  not  confined  within  narrow  limits.  The  spirit  of  lib- 
erty that  aroused  the  men  of  Concord  and  Lexington  to  do  deeds  that 
will  live  in  song  and  story  so  long  as  American  history  lives,  had  perme- 
ated and  ramified  to  the  remotest  points  of  the  settlements  in  the  colo- 
nies ;  and  nowhere  in  all  the  towns  of  the  colonies  was  there  a  quicker 
response  to  that  call ;  nowhere  was  there  a  town  that  answered  sooner 
than  this  grand  old  town  of  Lyndeborough,  when  the  call  came.  For, 
uoLwith standing  it  was  in  the  busiest  season  of  the  year,  when  work  must 
be  done  if  they  were  to  reap  a  harvest  in  the  coming  fall,  in  less  than 
eight  weeks  from  the  igth  of  April,  from  the  battle  of  Concord  and  Lex- 
ington, nineteen  of  the  gallant  sons  of  Lyndeborough  stood  on  the  battle 
line  with  Stark  before  Bunker  Hill. 

And  all  through  the  Revolutionary  war  this  town  furnished  more  than 
a  hundred  men  for  that  contest.  Some  of  them  heard  the  brave  and  gal- 
lant words  of  Stark  at  Bennington.  Some  of  them  saw  Burgoyne,  shorn 
of  his  pomp  and  glory,  lay  down  his  arms  in  defeat  before  a  ragged  line 
of  Americans  at  Saratoga.  Some  of  them,  barefooted,  footsore,  ragged 
and  hungry,  followed  Washington  through  the  icy  waters  of  the  Dela- 
ware. Some  of  them  heard  the  roar  of  cannon  at  Monmouth,  and  some 
of  them  followed  the  fortunes  of  that  gallant  army  through  to  the  end, 
and  saw  the  final  triumph  of  American  liberty  at  Yorktown. 

Grand  old  revolutionary  heroes  !  Some  of  us  remember  the  tottering 
form  of  one  as  he  came  into  the  church  Sunday  after  Sunday  to  occupy 
his  usual'  seat.  Grand  and  heroic  their  deeds  were,  and  we  remember 
with  gratitude  and  pride  the  work  they  did,  to-day  ;  and  well  we  may,  for 
in  all  the  history  of  the  world  there  is  no  grander  page  than  that  written 
out  by  the  bayonets  of  the  Revolutionary  heroes  in  their  struggle  for  lib- 
erty ;  and  the  town  of  Lyndeborough  furnished  more  than  its  share  of 
men  for  that  service. 

There  seems  to  be  no  record  of  the  men  that  served  in  the  war  of  1812 
from  this  town.  And  it  is  not  probable  that  a  great  many  of  them  en- 
tered that  service,  as  it  was  a  short  war  compared  with  the  others,  and 
its  contests  were  mostly  far  beyond  the  Hudson,  except  one  or  two  naval 
battles.  The  town,  I  believe,  did  send  a  company  to  do  garrison  duty  at 
Portsmouth. 

The  great  civil  war  of  1861,  like  the  revolution,  came  unexpectedly. 
Although  political  contests  had  been  fierce  and  political  animosities  and 
angers  were  strong,  yet  there  was  no  thought  on  the  part  of  the  North  of 
settling  the  great  questions  brought  about  by  African  slavery  by  acontes 
of  arms,  until  the  firing  upon  Fort  Sumter.    Then  all  political  anira 
ties  ceased  and  were  hushed.     Then  disappeared  party  lines.    Then 
was  union  or  dis-union  —  the  North  against  the  South:  loyalty  again! 
disloyalty.     Then  the  men  of  Maine,  the  men  of  New  Hampshire,  tl 
men  of  Massachusetts,  at  a  moment's  warning,  with  only  a  single  hour 
notice,  seized  their  arms,  rushed  to  the  rescue  and  saved  the  E 
capital.     And  among  the  very  first  to  respond  to  that  call  were 
who  first  saw  the  light  of  day  upon  these  hills. 


560  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

And  the  first  of  all  New  Hampshire's  sons  to  lay  down  his  life  on  the 
field  of  battle  in  that  great  contest  was  a  hoy  who  enlisted  from  this 
town,  a  handsome,  black-eyed  boy,  full  of  life  and  happiness,  who  was 
born  and  raised  on  yonder  farm,  was  killed  almost  at  the  first  fire  in  the 
first  battle  of  Bull  Run.  During  that  great  contest  this  town  furnished 
for  actual  service  in  the  army  over  eighty  of  its  citizens.  I  refer  to  those 
who  saw  actual,  active  service.  This,  of  course,  is  exclusive  of  the  ser- 
vice of  the  artillery  company,  of  which  I  shall  say  a  word  later.  And 
to-day,  beneath  the  Southern  skies,  all  along  the  line  from  the  Potomac 
to  the  Mississippi,  they  are  sleeping  their  final  sleep.  For  the  life  of  one 
went  out  amidst  the  whistling  shot  and  screeching  shell  at  Gettysburg  ; 
another  fell  beneath  the  burning  sun  of  Louisiana,  in  front  of  the  breast- 
works of  Port  Hudson  ;  another  passed  away  amidst  disease  and  suffering 
and  death  in  the  hospital  at  New  Orleans ;  another  at  Gettysburg,  and  so 
on.  They  were  in  all  the  great  battles  of  the  war.  I  think  you  cannot 
find  a  single  one,  where,  in  the  ranks  of  the  Union  army,  there  was  not 
a  Lyndeborough  boy.  And  at  the  final  surrender  at  Appomatox  over  a 
score  of  Ivyndeborough's  sons  were  still  in  the  service,  many  of  whom 
had  won  commissions. 

I  intended  to  say  only  a  very  few  words  here,  but  the  response  to  the 
sentiment  your  toast-master  presented  me  would  be  very  incomplete 
without  a  word  in  relation  to  the  artillery  company  and  the  militia.  This 
town  has  furnished  to  the  militia,  in  days  past,  two  infantry  companies 
that  are  long  since  extinct,  and  an  artillery  company,  the  glory  and  re- 
nown of  this  old  town,  so  far  as  its  military  record  is  concerned,  now 
over  eighty  of  age,  but  not  decrepit  and  broken ;  having  still  the  strength 
and  vigor  of  its  manhood.  I  suppose  the  two  principal  objects  of  keep- 
ing up  a  militia  force  are,  first,  to  have  a  force  that  we  can  call  upon  at 
any  time,  in  an  emergency ;  second,  to  keep  alive  in  men  the  military 
spirit.  That  this  old  company  has  well  fulfilled  these  two  objects  we  all 
can  testify,  for  it  responded  with  alacrity  and  with  full  ranks  to  the  call 
that  took  it  to  Portsmouth  for  garrison  duty  during  the  war.  And,  dur- 
ing all  its  life,  there  is  scarcely  a  son  of  Lyndeborough  that  has  not  at 
some  time  been  enrolled  in  its  ranks.  It  has  an  honorable  record,  and 
we  are  glad  to  speak  of  it  in  terms  of  praise  to-day.  We  can  only  hope 
that  interest  in  it  will  be  kept  up,  and  that  its  drill  and  discipline  will  be 
continued,  so  that,  fifty  years  from  now,  when  the  two  hundredth  anni- 
versary comes,  it  can  show  as  grand  and  noble  a  record  as  it  does  to-day. 

A  word  more  in  relation  to  the  military  service  of  the  town  and  I  am 
done.  We  sometimes  hear  soldiers  say  that  they  won  the  war,  but  they 
did  not.  The  men  that  stayed  at  home  and  raised  provisions  and  made 
munitions  of  war  and  made  money  helped  to  win  the  war  as  much  as  the 
soldiers,  and  without  their  support,  we  that  stood  the  brunt  of  battle 
could  not  have  carried  on  the  contest  a  single  month.  But,  with  all  the 
men  working  to  carry  on  the  war  successfully,  I  do  not  believe  they 
could  have  done  it  without  something  else.  No,  veteran  soldiers,  we 
could  not  have  waged  successful  war  without  the  sympathies,  the  tears 
and  the  prayers  of  the  women.  We  sometimes  talk  of  the  sufferings  of  the 
soldier,  but  what  were  they  compared  with  those  of  the  women,  whose 
anxiety  never  ceased  ? 


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There  sat  on  this  platform  this  morning  a  grand  and  noble  mother, 
who,  at  one  time,  had  three  sons  in  the  army  of  the  Potomac.  What  was 
her  suffering,  as  she  watched  with  fear  and  trembling  every  minute  for  the 
sound  of  footfalls  that  brought  news,  with  an  anxiety  that  never  could  pos- 
sibly cease  until  the  living  ones  returned.  The  women  of  this  town  and 
of  this  country,  the  women  of  the  war,  were  as  grand  and  noble  as  the 
Spartan  mother  of  old,  and  gave  to  the  country  their  sons,  with  God's 
blessing.  Yes,  veteran  soldiers,  the  greatest  heroism  of  war  is  that  of 
the  women,  after  all,  for  they  are  the  greatest  sufferers. 

The  military  record  of  Lyndeborough  surely  is  one  of  which  we  have  a 
right  to  be  proud,  and  we  can  only  hope  for  the  future  that  it  will  be  as 
grand,  that  her  sons  will  be  as  brave  and  patriotic  as  those  have  been  who 
have  gone  before. 

The  choir  then  sang  "  The  Star  Spangled  Banner." 
Mr.  Woodward.    In  all  the  joys  and  sorrows  of  our  town  the 
minister  has  filled  a  very  large  place.     And  I  therefore  propose 
this  sentiment  to  the  clergy  :  — 

We  know  how  well  the  fathers  taught, 

What  work  the  later  schools  have  wrought. 
We  reverence  old  time  faith  and  men, 

But  faith  is  slow. 

Is  it  too  little  or  too  much  we  know  ? 

I  have  the  pleasure  of  calling  upon  Rev.  Mr.  Childs,  pastor  of 
the  church  at  the  centre  of  the  town,  to  respond  to  that  senti- 
ment. 

Mr.  Childs  made  a  suitable  response. 

Mr.  Woodward.  The  next  sentiment  is  "  Our  Medical  Men." 
The  confidential  friends  of  the  family,  their  cheerful  presence 
robs  sickness  of  half  its  pain. 

Beginning  by  helping  us  in 

To  this  world  of  trouble  and  doubt, 
He  at  last  atones  for  that  sin  ' 

By  genially  helping  us  out. 

A  number  of  years  ago  we  had  a  graduate  from  District  No. 
8  who  has  gone  out  from  us  and  has  acquired  very  considerabl 
eminence  in  his  profession.     It  gives  me  much  pleasure  to  pr< 
sent  to  you  one  of  the  sons  of  Lyndeborough,  Dr.  H.  E.  Spalc 
ing  of  Hingham,  Mass. 

Dr.  Spalding.    Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  Friends  of  my  Boyhood :     Whc 
I  came  here  I  little  expected  to  do  other  than  shake  hands, 
expect  that   my  voice  would  be  called  for  here  to-day.     Hence  if 
thoughts  that  I  have  collected  together  among  these  varied  scenes   h, 
are  brought  before  my  mind  by  this  gathering  are   somewha ra    b tag, 
you  must  forgive  me,  and  believe  that  it  is  something  like  the  mod« 
sermon.     You  have  the  text  given  you,  and  let  the  brother  go  on 
what  he  will,  whether  it  applies  or  hot. 


562  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

The  first  thought  that  comes  to  my  mind  is,  why  should  they  ask,  in 
Lyndeborough,  about  the  medical  profession  ?  You  have  no  doctors 
here,  you  need  no  doctors  here.  Why,  then  do  you  bring  one  of  the 
medical  profession  before  you  ?  These  years  ago  you  outgrew  doctors. 
Well,  I  suppose  when  you  had  got  this  canvas  tent  spread  above  you,  you 
thought  it  was  a  sort  of  menagerie,  and  you  wanted  to  see  a  curiosity ; 
you  wanted  to  see  how  the  creatures  look  nowadays,  so  your  chairman 
said,  "  Let  us  bring  up  a  doctor  to  look  at."  So  I  am  brought  here  for  a 
show  more  than  for  what  I  am  to  say.  Lyndeborough  has  had  doctors. 
I  accidentally  learned  to-day  that  old  Dr.  Jones,  about  125  years  ago,  took 
to  himself  a  wife  ;  and  then  did  not  exactly  take  to  the  woods,  but  did  take 
to  the  fastnesses  of  the  mountains  up  here  in  Lyndeborough,  having  his 
household  goods  put  on  an  ox-cart,  he  and  his  bride  going  in  a  one- 
horse  "shay,"  the  second  that  had  ever  been  into  these  town  limits;  and 
thus  they  drove  to  Lyndeborough.  He  put  out  his  shingle,  but  what  an 
ominous  sign  it  was,  that  the  driver  of  that  ox-cart,  in  bringing  his  goods 
here,  choked  himself  to  death  before  he  got  here,  showing  that  there 
must  be  some  reason  why  doctors  should  not  come  to  Lyndeborough. 

Dr.  Jones  remained  here  many  years.  He  lived  here,  built  him  a  home 
here,  and  to-day  you  will  see  his  portrait  hanging  on  the  outer  wall  of  the 
home  which  he  built.  He  and  his  son  and  his  grandson,  I  think,  or  his 
great-grandson,  the  late  Wm.  A.  Jones,  supplied  the  place  of  physician  to 
this  town  nearly  all  the  time  during  these  125  years.  And  well  they  sup- 
plied it.  The  other  man  who  was  so  familiar  to  us  in  our  childhood,  who 
was  so  familiar  and  so  dear  to  our  mothers  and  our  fathers,  was  Dr.  Her- 
rick.  I  need  say  nothing  to  you  of  him.  You  remember  his  genial  face. 
You  remember  his  kindly  way.  We  all  respected  him.  We  all  loved 
him.  But  the  historian  has  told  you  that  many  have  gone  out  from 
Lyndeborough  and  worked  in  other  fields  in  the  medical  profession.  I  was 
surprised  to  know  that  there  were  so  many  who  had  been  at  work  in  my 
profession,  from  this  town. 

Foremost,  though,  above  all,  not  only  of  the  sons  of  this  town,  but  I 
would  almost  say  foremost  among  the  foremost  in  the  medical  science  of 
this  country,  one  whose  name  stands  among  the  uppermost  on  the  Temple 
of  Fame  in  the  medical  science,  is  the  name  of  Willard  Parker.  Not 
only  wherever  the  English  language  is  known,  but  wherever  scientific 
medicine  and  surgery  are  called  upon  to  alleviate  suffering  humanity  is 
known  the  name  of  Willard  Parker.  Many,  to-day,  are  working  and  do- 
ing good  works,  and  it  may  be  said  of  them,  "  their  works  do  follow 
them,"  if,  by  chance,  they  do  not  go  before. 

But  I  have  said  that  other  thoughts  come  into  my  mind  to-day,  and  I 
really  dislike  to  talk  "shop."  I  do  not  know,  perhaps,  as  much  about 
the  medical  profession  as  those  who  suffer,  or  are  alleviated  by  it,  do.  I 
could,  perhaps,  tell  you  more  about  the  lawyers  than  the  lawyers  could 
tell  about  themselves.  I  could,  perhaps,  tell  you  more  about  the  clergy 
than  they  could  tell  you  about  themselves ;  and  some  of  you  could  tell  me, 
perhaps,  more  about  the'doctors  than  I  could  tell  you  about  them  myself. 
I  said  that  I  came  here  expecting  to  shake  hands.  So  I  did.  I  expected 
to  meet  the  boys  and  girls.  I  have  met  the  boys  and  girls,  but  not  the 
boys  and  girls.  I  have  clasped  the  hand  of  sturdy  manhood  and  the 


ANNIVERSARY   CELEBRATION  563 

hand  of  cordial  womanhood.  The  sparsely  covered  crown,  the  silver 
locks  are  here ;  and  about  the  same  bright  eye  I  read  the  marks  of  Time's 
fingers.  And  I  wonder,  as  I  look  at  them,  if  it  can  be  a  reflection  of 
something  in  myself.  It  can  hardly  be,  for  I  feel  like  a  boy  to-day.  Old 
memories  flock  around.  On  this  very  spot  one  of  my  earliest  recollec- 
lections  comes  up.  One  of  the  earliest  experiences  in  my  life  outside  of 
my  own  home,  was,  I  should  presume,  on  this  very  spot. 

One  Fourth  of  July  —  somebody  says  some  forty  years  ago  —  it  cannot 
be  as  long  ago,  for  I  am  but  a  boy  myself,  and  I  remember  it ;  but,  how- 
ever, it  was  long  enough  ago  so  that  our  fathers  and  our  mothers  deter- 
mined to  have  a  Fourth  of  July  picnic.  Our  fathers,  instead  of  getting  a 
tent,  went  into  the  woods,  gathered  trees  and  stuck  them  in  the  ground 
and  made  an  artificial  grove,  among  which  they  set  the  tables.  And  I 
remember  how  we  passed  the  hours  here.  But  what  impresses  itself 
most  clearly  upon  my  mind  is  the  fact  that  I  got  lost  that  day.  And  this 
common,  what  an  immense  country  it  was  to  me  !  How  astonished  I  was, 
and  how  frightened !  There  was  no  crier  sent  out  for  me.  I  am  sure  I 
filled  that  capacity  to  the  fullest  extent  of  the  demands  of  the  occasion. 

These  scenes  come  up  before  my  mind  rapidly,  one  after  another.  It 
was  my  good  fortune  a  few  months  ago  to  stand  in  Munich  and  there 
view  one  of  those  remarkable  processions  that  are  brought  out  to  cele- 
brate the  death  of  nobility.  The  sound  of  the  trumpet,  the  flash  of  the 
pine  torch, —  for  it  was  in  the  night, —  the  dirge,  the  bier,  all  said  the 
king  was  dead.  Yet,  when  the  procession  had  about  passed,  there  came, 
suddenly,  a  presence  in  the  air  of  something  :  a  sound, —  no,  not  a 
sound, —  a  tremor  filled  the  air.  Above,  below,  around, —  from  the  very 
depths  of  the  ground  it  came.  It  entered  the  very  soul  and  shook  the 
very  citadel  of  life  with  emotion.  It  told  better  than  anything  else 
could,  the  sorrow  of  the  nation.  Oh,  the  throb  of  pain  and  sorrow  in 
those  tremulous  sounds  !  I  shall  never  forget  it.  Something  akin  to 
that  comes  to  me  to-day  as  I  see  these  old  faces,  as  I  think  of  the  grass- 
grown  walks,  the  doors  that  used  to  open  in  cordial  hospitality,  that  now 
hang  half  torn  from  their  hinges,  the  sashless  windows,  the  emberless 
hearths ;  the  rooms  vacant,  except  as  the  bat  flies  through  from  one  to 
another,  or  the  frightened  squirrel  escapes.  In  the  garden  that  stood  by, 
like  half-awakened  memories,  the  tulip  and  the  daffodil,  the  hollyhock 
and  the  cinnamon  rose  still  struggle  into  bloom. 

And  then  I  recall  the  schoolhouse  with  its  deeply  carved  desks ;  I  re- 
member that  eventful  examination  day.  Oh,  how  we  crammed  and 
primed  for  it !  How  we  looked  anxiously  and  watched  to  see  when  the 
old  clergyman,  Mr.  Claggett,  should  come  across  the  field  and  through  the 
door.  Then  we  all  stood  up,  in  reverence  to  the  man  we  all  loved  so  well, 
the  man  who  could  take  each  one  of  us  by  the  hand,  and  was  not  satisfied 
with  giving  us  our  first  name,  but  gave  us  our  middle  names  and  our  last 
names.  He  knew  us  all.  Then,  as  the  neighbors  gathered,  one  after 
another,  how  we  struggled  to  acquit  ourselves  well.  And  how  we  went 
out  on  to  the  rostrum  of  the  schoolhouse  and  stood  there  with  trembling 
feet  and  said, 

"You'd  scarce  expect  one  of  my  age," 

or  with  more  zeal  and  animation,  we  declared  for  "  Independence  now, 
and  Independence  forever  !  " 


564  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Those  things,  I  say,  come  before  me  in  rapid  array,  and  I  sorrow  as  I 
think  of  the  deserted  homes,  as  I  notice  the  spots,  like  pock  marks  on 
the  surface,  where  once  stood  the  houses  that  meant  homes.  Yet,  as 
the  crier  goes  out, and,  in  oae  and  the  same  voice  declares,  "The  king  is 
dead.  Long  live  the  king,"  so  I  say  that  there  is  hope  yet  for  old  Lynde- 
borough.  It  is  not  all  sorrow  nor  all  mourning.  There  are  homes  here 
yet.  There  is  spirit  here  yet  among  the  old  men  and  among  the  middle- 
aged  men  that  can  make  I/yndeborough  still  bloom  and  blossom.  Her 
people  must,  perhaps,  change  their  methods  of  life,  their  methods  of 
farming,  and  introduce  possibly  some  other  industries  ;  but  I/yndebor- 
ough  must  live.  But,  above  all,  I  know  that  these  eternal  hills  are  here, 
and  that  they  shall  stand.  What  makes  I/yndeborough  dear  and  beauti- 
ful to  us  all  will  remain,  though  we  shall  pass  away.  Oh,  ye  rocks  and 
rills,  ye  hills  and  vales,  ye  mountains  and  ravines,  though  wander  thy 
children,  live  ye  still.  Do  they  make  their  sojourn  in  the  tropic  south, 
where  perpetual  summer  reigns,  they  refresh  their  hearts  with  memories 
of  thee,  with  thy  sleeping  verdure  wrapped  in  winter's  snowy  blanket. 
Though  they  dwell  in  the  prairies  of  the  West,  the  eye  wearied  with  the 
broad  expanse  of  the  horizon's  long,  unbroken  line,  they  long  to  behold 
once  more  thy*  varied  landscape  and  to  see  thy  mountain  tops,  as,  blush- 
ing with  the  first  influence  of  morning's  radiant  hues,  they  proclaim  the 
coming  of  the  king  of  day  to  the  vales  below.  Do  they  tread  the  narrow 
path  of  want,  or  eat  of  hunger's  bitter  bread,  they  recall  the  old  home  in 
thy  midst  where  an  all  sufficient  abundance  ever  prevailed.  Do  they  ride 
the  steed  of  affluence  or  dwell  in  palaces  of  wealth,  they  remember  the 
comforts,  the  careless  comforts  of  their  country  home,  and  say,  "  There 
indeed,  was  a  rich  mine  of  real,  peaceful  comfort  that  I  cannot  now  find.'' 
Yes,  wherever  they  are,  in  whatever  situation,  in  whatever  vocation,  doc- 
tor, lawyer  or  divine,  workers  with  the  brain  or  hand,  thy  children  love 
thee  still ;  living,  love  thee  ;  and  dying,  pray  that  thy  murmuring  brooks 
and  thy  whispering  pines  may  sing  their  requiem  and  may  speak  their 
praise. 

Mr.  Woodward  :  The  next  sentiment  is  a  toast  to  "  Good  Old 
L,yndeborough."  Success  to  her  industry.  Prosperity  attend 
her  years.  Her  doors  are  ever  open  to  welcome  home  her  wan- 
dering children. 

I  will  call  upon  one  of  her  wandering  children  to  speak  to  this 
sentiment.  I  used  to  be  very  intimately  acquainted  with  him 
years  ago.  He  is  a  graduate  of  old  District  No.  8,  over  the 
mountains,  and  was  one  of  the  sons  of  L,yndeborough  repre- 
sented in  that  historic  march  through  Baltimore  on  the  igth 
of  April,  1861.  Indies  and  gentlemen,  Henry  M.  Woodward, 
of  Medford,  Mass. 

Mr.  H.  M.  Woodward.  Citizens  of  Lyndeborough,  Old  Lyndeborough  : 
Old  it  is,  indeed,  as  we  mark  the  years,  as  the  storms  beat  upon  yonder 
hills.  Old  indeed  it  is  as  we  mark  the  forest  which  the  streams  have 
made  in  yonder  valleys.  Old  indeed  it  is  as  we  read  upon  the  tomb- 
stones in  yonder  yard  the  ages  of  those  that  have  been  laid  there  during 


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the  years  that  are  past.  But  every  morning's  sun,  as  it  climbs  up  these 
hills,  makes  Lyndeborough  as  new  as  it  was  in  the  past,  when  our  boy- 
hood feet  trod  these  hills.  L,yndeborough  —  her  industries :  I  have  been 
astonished  at  the  industries  of  I/yndeborough.  We  have  industry  piled 
up,  industry  pressed  down,  industry  shaken  together.  And  the  industry 
here  is  so  elevating  —  already  elevated,  I  should  say.  In  the  morning, 
you  industriously  climb  up  and  spend  an  industrious  day  upon  these 
hills,  and  when  you  have  industriously  filled  the  hours  of  the  day,  you 
industriously  slide  down  the  same  hills  to  your  homes  and  industriously 
fill  up  the  remainder  of  the  day  with  the  chores  about  the  farm  and  barn. 
This  is  industrious  industry,  piled  up,  heaped  up.  And  what  is  the  re- 
ward of  this  industry  ?  I  got  a  clew  of  the  reward  of  the  industry  from 
the  remarks  which  the  doctor  made ;  and  that  is  this,  that  they  do  not 
need  any  doctors  in  Lyndeborough. 

It  is  very  difficult  for  one  unaccustomed  to  public  speaking  to  know 
what  to  say  next.  I  am  reminded  of  an  incident  that  occurred  in  my  war 
experience,  and  with  that  I  will  close  my  remarks.  I  know  the  old  sol- 
diers here  will  appreciate  it.  In  the  early  part  of  the  war,  in  our  nine 
months'  service,  we  had  a  motley  collection  in  our  company,  and  very 
many  of  them  knew  nothing  of  military  duties  or  tactics.  We  had  a  man 
by  the  name  of  John  Whalen.  The  first  night  after  we  arrived  in  Virginia, 
John  Whalen  was  detailed  as  camp  guard.  The  old  soldiers  will  know 
what  "grand  rounds"  means.  And  I,  being  officer  of  the  guard,  it  was 
my  duty  to  instruct  the  guard  in  the  duties  of  the  grand  rounds.  For  the 
information  of  those  who  do  not  exactly  know  what  it  means,  I  will  say 
that,  in  the  night,  the  officer  of  the  day  goes  around  and  inspects  each 
guard  about  the  camp,  and  they  have  a  certain  formula  which  is  required 
of  the  guard  during  that  performance.  He  goes  about  to  see  that  every 
man  is  awake  and  at  his  post  and  doing  his  duty.  I  instructed  John  in 
the  duties  of  grand  rounds.  I  told  him  what  he  was  to  do.  I  drilled  him 
in  the  formula.  "  Now,  John,"  said  I,  "when  the  officer  of  the  guard 
approaches,  you  must  say  "Halt!"  and  "Who  goes  there?"  And  of 
course,  the  officer  will  say  "Grand  rounds."  You  will  say,  "Advance, 
grand  rounds,  and  give  the  countersign."  I  instructed  him  in  all  the 
minutiae  of  that,  and  I  got  John  so  thoroughly  indoctrinated  with  grand 
rounds  that  he  could  go  through  with  it  beautifully.  When  the  time  ap- 
proached, the  officer  of  the  day  came  to  me  and  we  went  the  grand 
rounds.  We  found  all  the  guards  at  their  posts  as  usual.  We  came  to 
John's  post,  and  John  was  marching  up  and  down  his  post,  with  his 
"  shoulder  arms,"  as  brave  as  any  man  could  be;  and  when  he  saw  me 
coming,  he  came  to  a  halt,  and  waited  until  I  could  have  struck  him  with 
my  fist,  he  allowed  me  to  come  so  near  him. 

Now  it  is  against  the  rules  of  the  army  for  a  guard  to  let  anyone  come 
within  reach  of  his  bayonet.  John  allowed  me  to  come  up  very  near. 
And  after  awhile  he  says,  "Halt!"  Of  course,  I  had  halted  before. 
Then  I  waited  a  few  minutes  for  the  rest  of  it.  And  John  sang  out  after 
a  while,  "  Who  goes  there  ?"  I  replied,  "  Grand  rounds."  Then  there 
was  another  long  silence,  and  I  waited  and  waited.  Finally,  John  said, 
"  Phwat  will  I  say  next  ?  "  With  this  remark,  "  Phwat  will  I  say 
next  ?  "  I  close  the  few  remarks  I  have  to  make. 


566  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Mr.  Woodward.  Indies  and  Gentlemen  :  The  next  senti- 
ment is  to  the  absent  sons  of  Lyndeborough  ;  to  the  sons  of 
L/yndeborough  who  have  been  pioneers  and  conservators  of 
other  civilizations  ;  those  present  we  welcome  to  their  native  hills 
on  this  festal  day  ;  to  those  absent  we  send  our  kindest  benedic- 
tions. I  have  the  pleasure  of  introducing  to  you  William  H. 
Grant,  Esq.,  of  St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 

Mr.  Grant,  before  proceeding,  read  certain  letters  which  had 
been  received  from  some  of  the  sons  of  L/yndeborough  who  were 
not  present.  After  reading  a  letter  from  Rev.  Wm.  T.  Bout- 
well,  of  Stillwater,  Minn.,  Mr.  Grant  spoke  as  follows  :  — 

Now,  fellow-townsmen,  I  remember,  in  my  boyhood,  to  have  read, 
as  some  of  you  have  read,  that,  under  certain  circumstances,  the 
last  shall  sometimes  be  first,  and  the  first  last.  The  last  letter  which 
I  read  to  you  was  that  from  Mr.  Boutwell.  I  will  speak  of  him  as  one 
of  the  absent  sons  of  Lyndeborough  first,  because  he  builded  better  than 
he  knew.  When  your  mothers  and  my  mother  were  making  bed  blankets 
and  bed  quilts  and  sending  them,  with  their  benedictions  into  the  far 
Northwest  forty  years  ago,  they  did  not  know  what  they  were  doing. 
Mr.  Boutwell  said  to  me  last  Tuesday  afternoon,  when  I  went  to  see  him 
for  the  very  purpose  of  seeing  him  before  I  should  meet  you  to-day,  that 
the  people  of  Lyndeborough  and  his  New  England  friends,  in  1831,  told 
him  that  if  he  went  into  that  Northwestern  country,  if  he  did  not  freeze 
to  death,  he  would  be  scalped  by  the  Indians.  We  all  remember  very 
well  how  solicitous  we  all  were  for  his  welfare.  I  need  not  tell  you  that 
his  mission,  like  the  other  missions  to  the  Indians  in  the  past,  has  very 
largely  been  a  failure.  He  admits  it  himself.  But  man  proposes  and 
God  disposes.  The  result  of  I/yndeborough 's  sending  that  man  into  the 
Northwest  was  the  bringing  of  the  attention  of  the  American  people  to 
that  country.  "  Why,"  he  says,  "  in  1832,  when  I  landed  upon  the  shore 
of  Cass  Lake,  near  the  source  of  the  Mississippi,  I  found  as  fine  a  field  of 
corn  as  was  ever  raised  in  old  Lyndeborough.  I  did  not  feel  any  afraid 
of  freezing  to  death  after  that." 

It  is  to  missionaries,  to  men  like  Mr.  Boutwell,  that  America  owes  the 
building  up  and  redeeming  from  barbarism  of  that  noble  country,  of  that 
great  belt,  not  of  western  land,  nor  western  states  which  we  used  to  talk 
about,  but  that  great  central  belt  composed  of  Wisconsin,  of  Michigan, 
of  Minnesota,  of  Iowa,  of  Illinois,  of  Missouri,  and  so  down  to  the  Gulf 
of  Mexico.  Within  the  limits  of  which  I  speak,  and  the  new  States,  to 
be, —  the  two  Dakotas,  when  they  are  added,  there  will  be,  in  that  coun- 
try to  which  Mr.  Boutwell  went  in  1831,  twelve  millions  of  free,  inde- 
pendent, enlightened  and  happy  people.  It  is  owing  to  the  services  of 
such  men  as  Mr.  Boutwell  that  the  Pillsburys  are  feeding  you  to-day. 
You  have  been  eating  flour  ground  at  the  Falls  of  St.  Anthony,  which 
seemed  to  be  a  Utopian  country  in  the  days  when  Mr.  Boutwell  first 
visited  it. 

Another  suggestion,  another  distinction  for  a  son  of  Lyndeborough : 
Mr.  Boutwell  gave  the  name  of  Itasca  to  the  source  of  the  Mississippi 


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River ;  so  that,  so  long  as  that  great  river  shall  flow  to  the  gulf,  so  long 
as  the  human  mind  can  remember  or  can  see  or  can  know  of  what  there 
is  to-day  in  the  land, —  just  so  long  will  that  name  be  preserved  ;  and  it 
is  to  old  L,yndeborough,  to  this  hill  here  just  below  us,  that  we  owe  that 
name  —  a  peculiar  name.  He  told  me  the  story  of  how  it  came  about 
some  years  ago.  It  was  this :  He  accompanied  the  Schoolcraft  expedi- 
tion in  1832.  They  came  to  that  lake.  It  was  the  source  of  the  river, 
and  the  question  was  what  they  should  call  it.  They  talked  of  Indian 
names.  Finally  Mr.  Schoolcraft  turned  to  Mr.  Boutwell  and  said,  "  Mr. 
Boutwell,  I  am  not  a  classical  scholar.  Can't  you  remember  some  Greek 
or  some  Latin  name,  something  that  will  be  expressive  of  the  idea  that 
this  is  the  head  of  the  river?"  Mr.  Boutwell  took  a  piece  of  birch  bark, 
as  they  sat  there  on  the  bank  of  the  lake,  and  wrote  "  veritas  caput,"  and 
handed  it  to  Mr.  Schoolcraft.  He  says,  "  It  is  too  long."  Mr.  Boutwell 
jocularly  replied,  "  Well,  we  had  better  cut  in  two."  So  he  took  off  the 
v  e  r  of  the  first  word  and  the  last  syllable  of  the  second  word  and  he  had 
the  word  "  Itasca,"  and  they  adopted  it  as  the  name  of  the  lake.  So  it  is 
to  a  son  of  I/yndeborough  that  the  world  is  indebted  for  the  name  of  the 
lake  at  the  head  of  the  great  Mississippi.* 

There  is  another  name  that  I  desire  to  call  your  attention  to.  While 
he  was  not  a  son  of  I/yndeborough,  he  was  a  son  of  one  of  Ivyndebor- 
ough's  sons.  He  was  a  grand-son,  as  I  said  before,  of  the  man  who 
led  the  men  of  Lyndeborough  at  Bunker  Hill.  I  think  we  have  the 
right  to  call  him  a  son  of  L,yndeborough.  I  refer  to  the  Hon.  E.  G. 
Spaulding  of  Buffalo.  You  have  heard  what  the  military  did  during  the 
war  of  the  rebellion  ;  and  how  proud  we  have  been  of  our  military  rec- 
ord. But  there  is  a  peaceful  record  in  the  case  of  Mr.  Spaulding,  which, 
to  my  mind,  vastly  outweighs,  in  its  importance,  the  achievements  of 
the  military.  Without  it,  the  military  could  never  have  succeeded.  His- 
tory shows  us  that  Mr.  Spaulding,  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
finance  in  the  congress  of  the  United  States,  in  the  early  days  of  the  war, 
introduced  what  is  known  as  the  "  Greenback  Bill,"  for  the  issuing  of 
treasury  notes.  And  I  understand  that  in  Buffalo  his  neighbors  fre- 
quently speak  of  him  as  "  Greenback  Spaulding."  Another  thing  he 
did  :  He  formulated,  introduced  and  advocated  the  present  National  Bank 
bill,  by  which  our  national  currency  was  established.  And  it  was  so  per- 
fect when  it  came  from  his  experienced  hand  that  there  have  been  but  very 
few  amendments  of  it  since.  Men  live  in  their  sons  and  in  their  daugh- 
ters, and  I  say  again,  it  is  to  these  old  hills,  it  is  to  those  struggling  an- 
cestors of  ours  who  subdued  these  mighty  forests,  that  we  are  indebted 
for  these  great  measures. 

Other  sons  of  I/yndeborough  have  gone  forth  into  every  department  of 
life;  into  my  own  profession,  perhaps,  less  than  into  any  other  of  the 

*The  following  is  taken  from  a  paper  on  the  source  of  the  Mississippi,  by  H.  M. 
Kingery,  in  The  Popular  Science   Monthly  for  August,  1904  :  "  The  present  name  11 
said  to  have  been  the  joint  production  of  Schoolcraft  and  the   Rev.  Dr.  Boutwell,  who 
were  the  first  white  men  to  seek  the  lake  as  the  Mississippi's  source.    Desiring  to  ha 
it  at  first  sight  with  an  appropriate  title,  Schoolcraft  asked  his  companion  for  the  Greek 
or  Latin  words  meaning  the  true  source  of  a  river.    Though  somewhat  rusty  in  t 
classics,  the  reverend  explorer  finally  recalled  the  two  Latin  words,  veritas  caput 
truth  head.    These  were  written  down,  the  first  and  last  syllables  crossed  out,  an 
presto  !  the  name  Itaska." 


568  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

learned  professions ;  but  everywhere  you  find  them.  They  have 
been  bank  presidents  and  bank  directors.  They  have  constructed 
railroads.  They  have  been  railroad  directors  and  railroad  presidents 
and  managers.  They  have  been  mayors  of  cities.  They  have  been 
the  pioneers  and  founders  of  towns.  Every  industry,  every  advance  of 
civilization  has  found  some  son  of  I/yndeborough  lifting  at  the  wheel. 

But,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  the  hours  are  passing  rapidly.  I  simply  de- 
sired to  see  you.  I  desired  to  be  present  and  shake  again  your  kindly 
hands.  It  is  now  more  than  thirty  years,  nearly  thirty-five,  since  I  lost 
my  citizenship  in  I/yndeborough.  I  have  always  looked  back  on  the 
home  of  my  birth  as  a  place  I  love  to  contemplate.  I  remember  you  all. 
I  remember  the  old  men  and  the  young,  and  always  with  the  kindest  of 
feelings  and  recollections.  These  scenes  about  us,  as  I  said  before,  are 
what  have  made  the  sons  of  Lyndeborough  what  they  are.  Man,  like 
any  other  animal,  is  made  largely  by  his  environment ;  and  it  is  because 
our  ancestors  had  to  struggle,  it  is  because  our  fathers  and  mothers  had 
to  work  with  their  hands  and  their  heads,  that  we  have  given  so  many 
illustrations  of  distinguished  ability  in  the  various  departments  of  human 
life. 

I  expect  to  leave  you.  I  may  never,  or  I  may,  return.  These  scenes, 
to  me,  are  set  in  strong  remembrance.  As  Burns  said, 

"Oh,  scenes  in  strong  remembrance  set ! 

Scenes  never,  never  to  return  ! 
Scenes,  if  in  stupor  I  forget, 
Again  I  feel,  again  I  burn." 

Good-bye.     I  do  not  want  to  say  any  more. 

Mr.  Woodward.  I  did  not  commence  my  task  with  an  apol- 
ogy which  perhaps  I  should  have  made ;  but  it  is  very  dis- 
agreeable to  commence  the  exercises  of  any  occasion  with  an 
apology.  But  we  expected  and  hoped  that  His  Excellency  the 
Governor  would  be  here  to-day,  and  he  gave  a  partial  assurance 
that  he  would  be  here,  but  he  did  not  come.  It  would  be  a 
very  pleasant  part  of  my  task  were  I  able  to  read  a  letter  of 
regret  from  him,  but  I  cannot  do  so  for  he  sent  none. 

The  concluding  sentiment  of  the  day  is  to  the  first  settlers  of 
Ivyndeborough.  Plain,  hardy,  intelligent.  Contending  with 
the  forces  of  nature,  enduring  privation,  they  hewed  out  for 
themselves  homes,  and  left  for  us  a  legacy  of  freedom.  As  the 
fathers  live  in  their  sons,  may  their  sturdy  courage  and  faith  be 
ours.  I  have  the  honor  and  pleasure  of  introducing  to  you 
Mr.  Rufus  Blanchard  of  Chicago,  111.,  who  will  respond  to  this 
toast.  He  has  acquired  a  reputation  as  an  author  and  pub- 
lisher and  is  an  old  son  of  I/yndeborough . 

Mr.  Blanchard.  Fellow-Citizens,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  :  I  wish'J  could 
call  more  of  you  "  fellow-citizens,"  practically,  than  is  possible.  When 
I  came  here,  as  I  first  came  over  Perham's  old  hill,  I  could  not  help  hum- 
ming to  myself  that  old  hymn, 


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"  Green  hills  of  Tyrol,  again  I  see 
My  home  and  country  so  dear  to  me." 

It  would  not  have  required  any  very  great  stretch  of  imagination  for 
me  to  have  become  convinced  in  my  own  mind  and  to  have  actually  be- 
lieved that  I  was  to  visit  my  old  schoolfellows,  and  to  take  a  friendly 
wrestle  with  them,  or,  maybe,  a  regular  rough  and  tumble.  But  I  am 
sorry  to  say  that  the  truth  dispelled  that  happy  illusion  very  soon.  In- 
stead of  that  I  found  a  few  grizzly  old  fellows,  just  like  myself,  some 
younger,  some  a  little  older.  But  as  I  grasped  them  by  the  hand  I  felt 
as  if  I  could  again  take  a  regular  rough  and  tumble  with  them.  I  re- 
member which  of  them  could  lay  me  on  my  back,  and  which  I  could  lay 
on  their  backs.  But  I  do  not  propose  to  try  it  now.  There  is  a  man  that 
I  wrestled  with  over  there  now.  I  never  fought  with  him  in  the  world. 
But  I  could  pick  out  some  that  I  have  fought  with,  though  I  do  not  see 
any  now.  But  if  I  could,  I  would  feel  a  good  deal  as  the  famous  artist, 
Healy,  felt ;  he  is  the  artist  who  painted  the  presidents  of  the  United 
States,  the  greatest  artist  in  the  world  to-day.  I  met  him  at  one  time 
with  one  of  his  old  friends  from  Boston  and  had  the  honor  to  be  intro- 
duced to  him ;  and  from  the  conversation  that  he  bad  with  the  gentle- 
man, Mr.  Higginson,  I  was  led  to  say,  "  Why,  you  must  be  old^friends  ?  '* 

"  Oh,  yes,"  he  said,  "  we  threw  brick-bats  at  each  other  on  the  streets 
of  Boston,  when  boys." 

So  began  a  life-long  friendship.  I  felt  something  like  that  when  I 
came  to  greet  my  old  friends  here.  If  we  didn't  throw  brick-bats,  we 
pummelled  each  other  well,  which  was  just  as  good  proof  of  our  courage. 
And  we  didn't  tell  our  fathers  of  it,  nor  our  pedagogues,  nor  our  "school- 
marms."  If  we  had,  we  would  have  got  a  second  dose  from  Dr.  Birch. 
It  is  right  for  boys  to  fight,  rather  than  submit  to  degredation.  It  was 
the  same  spirit  which  actuated  nineteen  men  to  enlist  in  the  revolution- 
ary war  from  our  old  town. 

But,  O  Mercy !  don't  let  me  make  you  a  speech  !  The  thing  has  gone 
too  far  already.  Everything  that  has  been  said  has  been  good,  but  it  is 
too  late  to  make  any  more  speeches.  Therefore  I  will  just  read  you  a 
little  sentiment  that  I  felt  impressed  to  utter,  and  I  wrote  it  out  because 
I  couldn't  help  it.  (The  Speaker  then  read  a  short  poem.) 

I  thank  you,  my  friends,  for  allowing  me  to  greet  you  face  to  face. 
And  if  I  have  failed  to  respond  to  that  beautiful,  that  laconic  sentiment 
that  was  allotted  me,  you  cannot  doubt  that  it  has  been  most  ably  re- 
sponded to  already  ;  and  you  will  excuse  this  as  a  light  dessert,—  not  a 
heavy  dessert,  like  a  piece  of  mince  pie,  but  the  lightest  dessert  you 
could  eat  after  a  meal  of  solid  meats.  We  will  call  it  a  roast  apple. 

Mr.  Woodward.  Mr.  Chairman,  that  concludes  the  part 
which  was  assigned  to  me. 

President  Grant.  I  have  been  requested  to  state  that  on 
Thursday,  the  i2th  day  of  this  month,  the  scion  of  Lynde- 
borough  which  drew  off  a  part  of  Salem-Canada,  proposes, 
from  what  we  have  done  here  to-day,  to  see  what  it  can  do. 
Boys  are  apt,  if  their  parents  have  done  something  big,  to  see 


570  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

if  they  cannot  do  something  bigger.  The  people  of  Wilton 
propose  to  hold  a  celebration  on  the  i2th  day  of  the  present 
month,  and  they  invite  all  who  are  present  at  lyyndeborough 
to-day  to  come  down  and  see  them. 

This  meeting  now  stands  adjourned  for  fifty  years,  and  as 
many  of  you  as  possible  are  requested  to  come  then. 

In  conclusion :  The  following  poem,  written  by  Dr.  Israel 
Herrick  in  1858,  was  not  read  on  this  occasion;  but  as  it  doubt- 
less would  have  been  if  it  had  been  available,  it  is  inserted  here 
without  apology  :  — 

SCRAPS  ABOUT  I/YNDKBOROUGH. 

Our  town  is  a  regular  crescent-like  swell, 

Made  up  of  mountain,  and  hill,  and  dell, 

With  here  and  there  a  small  level  spot, 

Sufficient  to  build  a  snug,  humble  cot, 

A  barn  and  a  shed,  with  a  yard  for  the  kine, 

A  coop  for  the  hens,  and  a  pen  for  the  swine. 

The  surface  is  stony,  and  hard,  and  rough, 

The  tilling  of  which  is  toilsome  and  tough, 

Discounting  to  man  and  beast  his  food, 

If  only  the  proper  labor  is  made, 

With  plow  and  harrow,  shovel  and  spade, 

Crowbar,  bush-hook,  axe  and  hoe, 

Laid  on  smart  by  a  freeman's  blow. 

Our  ancient  domain  was  ample  and  bold, 

Such  as  yeomen  delight  to  purchase  and  hold, 

And  build  up  a  home  for  themselves  and  the  brood 

Very  soon  to  come  forth,  for  the  great  public  good. 

Thirty-six  square  miles,  with  a  southern  decline, 

Well  timbered  and  watered,  with  prospect  sublime, 

Was  the  price  paid  King,*  with  his  bold  soldier  clan, 

To  hunt  and  shoot  down  his  red  fellow-man, 

And  Frenchmen  to  boot ;  'twas  a  sov'reign  say, 

And  flunkeys,  as  now,  were  quite  sure  to  obey. 

But  this  goodly  grant  was  soon  to  be  marred 

By  godly  neighbors,  and  hackled  and  scarred, 

That  they  might  enlarge  their  scanty  dominions 

And  gratify  will,  as  well  as  opinions. 

First,  Wilton  came  in  for  a  two-mile  slice 

To  make  up  a  town,  so  snug  and  so  nice, 

With  Masoniau  lands,  which  they  had  on  hand, 

And  then  take  a  notable  public  stand. 

Next  Temple  presented  a  Blood-yt  request, 

And  after  contention,  'twas  thought  to  be  best 

To  let  them  take  off  a  three-cornered  bite, 

*Capt.  Samuel  King:-    See  pp.  21-25. — ED. 

t  The  late  General  Blood,  with  his  well-known  shrewdness,  got  up  a  petition,  put  it 
through  the  Legislature,  and  procured  the  grant. 


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And  keep  it,  rather  than  quarrel  and  fight. 

Next  Greenfield  requested  a  rather  large  strip, 

To  make  up  a  town  with  their  barren  old  slip. 

And  rather  than  see  them  look  meager  and  sullen, 

And  get  their  subsistence  from  sorrel  and  mullen, 

We  granted  their  prayer,  as  is  plain  to  be  seen, 

And  let  them  have  lands  that  looked  healthy  and  green. 

Frances-town  next  craved  a  very  small  bit, 

To  make  her  phylacteries  come  snug  to  a  fit, 

And  give  her  proportion,  as  plump  and  as  fair 

As  the  maiden*  whose  name  they  so  cheerfully  bear. 

Mont  Vernon  came  last  [and  got  what  she  wanted.] 

******* 
Thus  we  have  been  pinched  and  hackled  all  raw, 
Which  leaves  us  in  shape  of  a  circular  saw 
With  a  piece  broken  off ;  and  yet  we  are  here, 
And  keep  on  our  course  in  hope,  without  fear. 
With  this  slight  digression,  we'll  pick  up  our  traps, 
And  hasten  along  with  the  rest  of  our  scraps. 
Our  streams  of  water  are  nothing  but  rills, 
Greatly  deficient  for  driving  of  mills, 
Except  when  swollen  by  showers  or  thaws, 
And  then  you  may  hear  the  clatter  of  saws 
Cutting  up  lumber  —  yea,  fingers  and  paws  ; 
Yet  not  a  spoonful  of  meal's  to  be  had, 
Though  hens,  ducks  and  turkeys  —  yea,  women  —  run  mad, 
And  cackle  and  scold,  quack,  gobble  and  squall, 
For  grain  can't  be  ground,  the  streams  are  so  small. 
Churches  we've  two,  and  preachers  the  same, 
Where  sinner  and  saint,  the  blind,  halt  and  lame 
May  go  and  get  good  to  their  souls,  if  they  will, 
And  learn  to  avoid  the  eternal  down  hill, 
Where  old  "  Nickey  Ben,"  that  famous  old  rip, 
Stands  ready  to  give  them  a  crack  with  his  whip. 
One  doctor  !  good  luck  !  now  I'm  free  to  engage  — 
Were  there  none,  few  would  die  except  of  old  age. 
No  lawyert  save  one  e'er  yet  had  the  pride 
To  think  he  safely  our  yeomen  could  ride ; 
And  he  was  thrown  off  with  his  ill-gotten  treasures, 
To  earn  his  own  broth  by  making  peck  measures. 
A  full  baker's  dozen  of  squires  have  we, 
Who  serve  for  the  honor,  instead  of  the  fee  ; 
But  Justice  !  bah  !  their  number's  so  small, 
'Tis  safer  to  say  we  have  just  none  at  all. 
Schoolhouses  we've  nine,  tho'  one  at  a  peep 
Would  surely  be  taken  as  sheds  for  the  sheep, 

*  Frances  Deering,  wife  of  Gov.  John  Wentworth.  See  Francestown  History,  p.  39.— ED 
t  About  45  years  ago  Esq.  E— y  opened  an  office  in  this  place  ;  had  no  business,  and 
went  to  making  wooden  measures.     He  was  good  at  that.    For  in  the  granaries  of  many 
of  our  careful  farmers  you  ma>  find  sets  of  measures  made  by  this  wise  lawyer. 


572  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Instead  of  a  place  where  the  tender  young  mind 

Should  learn  to  shoot  forth,  "  as  the  twig  is  inclin'd." 

Yet  some  are  now  getting  the  better  of  self, 

Believing  that  mind  is  quite  equal  to  pelf; 

And  give,  by  refitting,  those  sheds  such  an  air, 

As  makes  the  whole  district  with  wonder  to  stare, 

And  two-penny  souls  half  determined  to  swear. 

We've  a  pond  of  small  size,  surrounded  with  bogs, 

Well  stored  with  leeches,  pickerel  and  frogs, 

Bull-paddocks,  water-snakes,  shiners  and  pouts, 

Suckers  and  pollywogs,  turtles  and  trouts  — 

Enough  in  all  conscience  to  get  up  a  treat 

For  half  of  the  bipeds  that  come  short  of  meat. 

We've  a  town  hall,  too,  of  modern  cut, 

Where  orators,  poets  and  sporters  can  strut ; 

Where  lyceums  meet,  great  questions  to  settle, 

And  brave  politicians  to  show  off  their  mettle  ; 

.And  singers  to  sing,  and  laugh  and  prattle, 

And  boys  to  run,  and  scream,  and  rattle, 

As  if  the  imps  in  the  old  black  pit 

Were  all  seized  at  once  with  colic  or  fit. 

Half  a  century  gone  by,  or  nearly  that  space, 

California  fever  broke  out  in  this  place  ; 

By  some  cantrip  slight,  the  fact  had  been  told, 

That  Scattaquog's*  bowels  were  all  filled  with  gold. 

So  at  it  they  went,  to  digging  and  blowing, 

To  carting  and  wheeling,  shov'ling  and  hoeing, 

From  winter  to  spring^through  summer  and  fall, 

And  all  that  they  got  was  just  nothing  at  all. 

So,  many  who  now  are  raving  for  riches, 

From  Mexican  hills  will  return  poor  as  witches, 

And  wish  they  had  staid  on  their  own  native  soil, 

To  gather  their  gold  by  slow,  patient  toil. 

The  red  man  free  once  ranged  our  hills, 

To  shoot  down  the  deer,  or  fish  in  our  rills, 

Little  dreaming  that  he  and  his  blood  must  give  place, 

With  his  land  and  his  hut,  to  a  white,  selfish  race, 

And  turn  his  sad  face  to  the  West  for  to  roam, 

No  more  to  return  to  his  sweet,  native  home. 

Near  our  speck  of  a  pond  was  his  summer  retreat, 

Where  he  -feasted  on  fish,  if  the  chase  gave  no  meat, 

And  gathered  the  grape,  the  wild  pear  and  cherry, 

That  he  with  his  friends  might  be  joyful  and  merry. 

'Twas  here,  too,  he  sickened  and  died, 

And  here  he  was  buried,  t  close  down  by  the  side 

*  The  name  of  the  eastern  spur  of  our  mountain.  About  the  commencement  of  the 
present  century  a  company  was  organized  in  this  town,  through  faith  in  the  Divining- 
rod,  to  mine  for  silver.  Much  time  and  money  were  expended  for  naught.  The  ex- 
cavation, though  now  partly  filled  up,  is  plain  to  be  seen. 

t  In  the  fall  of  1848,  as  workmen  were  removing  a  sand  mound  at  the  west  end  of 
"  Badger  "  Pond,  so  called,  the  bones  of  an  Indian  were  disinterred.  Others  may  yet 


ANNIVERSARY    CELEBRATION  573 

Of  this  little  pond,  and  the  tall  waving  trees 

Sang  his  requiem,  mov'd  by  the  soft  western  breeze.  , 

Fain  here  would  our  muse  gently  cower  her  wing, 

Nor  'tempt  furthermore  to  flutter  or  sing — 

Yea,  fain  would  avoid  the  sad  task  to  fulfil  ; 

But  oh  !  the  vile  serpent,  the  "  worm  of  the  still." 

That  reptile's  been  here,  with  his  poisonous  breath, 

Beguiling  its  victims  to  premature  death ; 

Gently  and  softly  the  heart  he  coils  round, 

'Till  all  the  affections  forever  are  bound. 

Father  and  mother,  fond  hearts  have  been  pained 

To  see  their  loved  offspring  so  foolishly  chained  ; 

Sisters  have  wept  for  a  brother's  sad  fate, 

Who  fain  would  avoid,  when,  alas  !  'twas  too  late, 

The  place  where  this  reptile  was  kept  to  decoy 

The  doom'd  one  from  virtue,  honor  and  joy. 

Alas !  oh,  alas !  no  tongue  can  e'er  tell 

The  sorrows  that  flow  from  this  offspring  of  hell. 

If  once  he  succeeds  in  wounding  the  brain, 

The  doom'd  one  will  seek  him  again  and  again  ; 

Will  sacrifice  freely  companions  of  youth, 

Probity,  honor,  religion  and  truth  — 

Father  and  mother,  health,  children  and  wife, 

Sister  and  brother,  yea,  e'en  his  own  life. 

Alas  !  he  will  peril  his  own  precious  soul, 

If  he  but  for  once  can  guaff  from  the  bowl 

The  poisonous  liquid  so  sure  for  to  kill, 

That  comes  from  that  reptile,  the  "  worm  of  the  still." 

Our  muse  is  a  blundering,  careless  old  jade ; 

The  fact  is,  she  never  yet  half  learn'd  the  trade. 

What  should  have  come  first  is  left  until  now — 

We  hope  the  fair  ladies  won't  scowl  up  their  brow  ; 

We  have  lots  of  them  here  —  some  young  and  some  old  ; 

Some  handsome,  some  homely,  some  modest,  some  bold. 

They  all  are  adopting  the  odd  modern  plan, 

When  dress'd,  to  resemble  a  broad,  open  fan, 

Or  rather  a  tunnel,  with  generous  crop 

At  the  nose,  and  a  something  stuck  on  near  the  top. 

Some  want  to  get  married,  some  say  they  do  not, 

But  this  is  a  fib  I  will  wager  a  grot. 

Not  want  to  get  married  !  I'd  just  as  soon  think 

A  miser  would  flee  from  the  rattle  of  chink  ; 

Or  our  little  pond,  with  all  its  live  stock, 

Should  start  up  the  mountain,  to  take  a  short  walk. 

Ivive  single  !  when  widowers,  bachelors  and  beaux 

Stand  ready  and  fix'd,  in  their  best  Sunday  clothes, 

To  give  them  a  call  and  make  quite  a  stop, 

rest  there.    The  first  settlers  of  this  town  found  around  this  pond  many  domestic  and 

other  implements  of  Indian  construction.    There  is  no  evidence  that  tl 

this  region  a  permanent  residence,  but  very  probably  it  was  a  favorite  hunting-grot 


5  74  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

Yea,  e'en  to  hitch  up,  and  the  question  to  pop? 
t  Not  want  to  get  married  !  'tis  all  fudge  and  feign, 

They  just  kind  o'  say  so,  their  object  to  gain, 
And  then,  oh,  "  by  cracky !  "  they'll  put  on  the  clips, 
And  make  ye  stand  round  like  a  basket  of  chips. 
Yet  some  are  more  honest,  are  willing  to  own 
That  going  through  life's  crooked  path  all  alone 
Was  never  designed  in  Nature's  great  plan 
To  be  the  sad  lot  of  woman  or  man. 
And  so  they  are  willing  to  join  in  and  go 
Through  Time's  little  journey  of  sorrow  and  woe 
With  him  they  have  promis'd  to  love  from  the  heart, 
Till  death  the  fond  union  asunder  shall  part. 
Then  ho  !  ye  single  old  scissors,  don't  cry! 
But  lift  up  your  heads  —  your  redemption  is  nigh  ; 
Another  good  half  you  can  get,  without  fail, 
And  then  cut  like  something, —  so  here  ends  our  TALE. 


THE   LAFAYETTE   ARTILLERY   COMPANY'S    CENTENNIAL   CELE- 
BRATION,   SEPTEMBER   9th,   1904. 

BY    REV.    D.    DONOVAN. 

A  century  of  continuous  existence  is  not  a  trivial  matter  to 
either  a  man  or  a  military  organization.  A  review  of  the  great 
changes  in  our  situation  and  in  that  of  our  familiar  friends,  in 
that  of  our  country,  and  especially  its  relations  with  other  coun- 
tries, the  "battles,  sieges,  fortunes"  we  have  passed  through, 
even  within  the  bounds  of  half  a  century,  cannot  fail  deeply  to 
impress  us.  But  if  the  occurrences  of  half  a  century  affect  us 
deeply,  how  much  more  those  of  a  full  century.  It  was  only 
appropriate  then  that  the  L,afayette  Artillery  and  the  town  in 
which  they  had  flourished  for  more  than  two-thirds  of  a  cen- 
tury, should  seek  to  celebrate  worthily  the  centennial  of  their 
organization. 

To  this  end,  the  town  at  its  meeting  in  March,  1904,  voted  to 
observe  Old  Home  Day,  and  appropriated  two  hundred  dollars 
to  expend  for  this  object,  and. also  appointed  a  committee  of  ar- 
rangements to  carry  out  its  vote. 

The  L,afayette  Artillery  also  appointed  a  committee  to  make 
suitable  arrangements  for  the  celebration  of  their  one-hun- 
dredth anniversary. 

The  two  committees  above  named  united  in  deciding  to  com- 
bine both  the  celebrations  into  one.  The  committee  chosen  for 
the  celebration  of  Old  Home  day  were :  — 

Fred  A.  Richardson          Charles  L,.  Perham  F.  B.  Richards 


LAP  A  YE  TTE  AR  TILLER  Y  CELEB  R  A  TION  575 

The  Lafayette  Artillery's  committee  were  :  — 

Capt.  Andy  Holt  Lieut.  Edward  Ross  Walter  S.  Tarbell 

Charles  L.  Perham  Fred  Moore 

It  was  understood  at  the  outset  that  the  Artillery  Co.  were, 
most  appropriately,  to  have  the  chief  place  in  the  day's  doings. 
Consequently,  the  main  part  of  the  work  in  making  the  ar- 
rangements devolved  on  their  committee.  This  took  the  lead 
and  had  the  principal  oversight  of  the  whole.  It  appointed  the 
following  subcommittees :  — 

Grounds. — J.  A.  Blanchard,  C.  L.  Perham,  Jos.  A.  Johnson. 
Speakers  and  Exercises. —  Capt.  Andy  Holt,  Jacob  A.  Woodward. 
Decorations. —  Lieut.  Edward  Ross,  chairman. 

Invitations. —  Chas.  H.  Tarbell,  Capt.  Andy  Holt,  Jacob  A.  Woodward. 
Salutes. —  A.  S.  Conant  and  members  of  the  gun  squad. 
Music. —  Lieut.  Fred  Holt,  Roy  N.  Putnam,  Jason  Holt. 
Dinner.—  W.  S.  Tarbell,  A.  W.  Putnam,  Charles  H.  Tarbell. 
Transportation. —  Fred  Moore,  John  C.  Carkin  and  Edgar  A.  Danforth. 

The  committee  on  music  secured  the  services  of  the  First 
Regiment  Band  of  Nashua ;  that  for  dinner  hired  the  Page  Co. 
of  I^owell,  Mass.,  as  caterers;  and  that  for  transportation  se- 
cured the  extra  train  service  from  Nashua  and  way  stations  for 
both  day  and  evening. 

At  the  meeting,  June  4,  1904,  the  company  voted  to  request 
the  general  committee  to  prepare  a  programme  to  be  presented 
at  the  next  meeting.  It  was  presented  as  follows :  - 

Sunrise  salute  by  the  gunner's  squad 

Receiving  Gov.  Bachelder  and  invited  guests  by  salute 

Parade  of  military 

Band  concert 

Dinner 

Speaking  by  the  governor  and  others 
Dress  parade 

This  program  was  accepted  by  the  company,  subject  to  amend- 
ment if  necessary. 

That  the  arrangements  thus  projected  were  handsomely  car- 
ried through,  will  be  learned  from  the  press  reports  furnished  by 
the  Manchester  Union,  Sept.  10,  1904,  and  also  from  the  Mil- 
ford  Cabinet  of  Sept.  15,  1904.-  We  cite  freely  from  both  such 
portions  as  suit  our  purpose  : 

"  Everything  connected  with  the  great  celebration  at  South  Lyndebor- 
ough  was  successfully  carried  out,  and  barring  the  weather,  was  satisfac- 
tory and  pleasing  to  everyone,  both  to  those  who  had  the  details  in  charge 
and  those  who  were  the  guests  of  the  town  and  the  company  for  the  day. 
There  may  have  been  more  people  in  South  Lyndeborougb  on  some 


576  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

previous  occasion,  but  it  is  certain  there  never  was  a  time  when  there 
were  so  many  umbrellas  in  evidence  as  on  Friday,  for  it  commenced  rain- 
ing early  in  the  morning  and  there  was  hardly  a  cessation  until  nightfall. 
This  could  but  be  a  damper  on  the  outdoor  exercises,  for  the  bright  sun 
was  necessary  to  show  up  to  advantage  the  decorations  which  were  so 
abundant  and  so  artistically  displayed.  It  was  really  a  remarkable  sight 
to  see  such  a  universal  decoration.  Hardly  a  house  but  had  its  stream- 
ers and  bunting  flying.  It  was  a  pretty  sight  as  it  was,  but  with  the  sun's 
bright  rays  it  would  have  been  most  attractive." — Cabinet. 

"  The  celebration  began  with  a  salute  of  twenty -five  guns,  fired  by  a 
gun  detachment  of  the  Lafayettes,  under  the  command  of  Albert  S. 
Conant.  The  historic  brass  six-pounder,  the  only  piece  in  the  state  service 
left  for  use  at  the  outbreak  of  the  civil  war,  at  the  sunrise  hour  boomed 
out  the  announcement  of  the  Lafayettes  centennial  until  the  entire  Pack 
Monadnock  range  echoed  the  message,  and  the  whole  countryside  knew 
that  New  Hampshire  had  a  military  company  a  full  100  years  old. 

"  It  was  an  interesting  morning  in  this  village  this  morning  when  the 
whole  town  and  all  the  neighboring  towns  were  turning  out  to  enjoy  the 
festivities  of  the  Lafayette's  anniversary.  And  it  was  a  pretty  picture 
which  the  village  presented,  even  in  the  rain.  The  Artillery  company 
was  resplendent  in  new  uniforms,  a  special  suit  combining  some  of  the 
features  of  both  the  regulation  artillery  and  marine  pattern,  and  alto- 
gether pretty  and  appropriate  for  an  independent  organization.  The  pic- 
turesque artillery  red  was  everywhere  in  evidence,  but  it  was  not  long 
before  the  troopers  of  the  Peterborough  cavalry  began  to  appear,  and  the 
yellow  lining  of  their  capes  gave  another  touch  of  color  to  the  pretty 
show.  The  village  itself  was  a  mass  of  red,  white  and  blue.  Artistic 
decorations  were  to  be  seen  on  every  building.  No  pains  had  been  spared 
to  make  the  place  beautiful,  and  the  decorators  found  everybody  anxious 
that  no  gap  should  be  left  in  the  color  display." — Union. 

"The  special  train  bearing  the  governor  and  his  party,  the  First  Regi- 
ment Band  from  Nashua,  the  Granite  Rifles  from  Milford  and  invited 
guests  from  all  directions,  came  about  9.30  o'clock,  and  the  old  cannon 
spoke  its  welcome  to  our  chief.  At  10  o'clock  the  governor  and  his  staff, 
Gen.  Tolles  and  members  of  his  staff  reviewed  the  paraMe  from  a  stand 
erected  in  the  square.  The  parade  was  an  altogether  creditable  one,  and 
consisted  of  a  platoon  of  police  from  Nashua,  First  Regiment  Band, 
Nashua,  Troop  A  Cavalry,  Peterborough,  Granite  Rifles,  Milford,  Lafay- 
ette Artillery  Co.,  Lyndeborough." — Cabinet. 

"  As  the  I/yndeborough  men  passed  the  governor  they  marched  like  vet- 
erans, and  their  line  called  out  a  spontaneous  burst  of  applause  from  the 
militia  officers,  who  watched  it  with  critical  eyes.  An  interesting  feature 
of  the  parade  was  the  historic  piece  drawn  by  gaily  caparisoned  horses 
and  surrounded  by  a  detachment  of  the  older  members  of  the  company. 

"  The  parade  over,  the  remainder  of  the  time  to  the  dinner  hour  was 
given  up  to  sociability.  Captain  Davis  had  a  good  chance  to  put  his 
troopers  through  some  manoeuvres  and  gave  a  half  hour's  drill,  much  to 
the  delight  of  the  crowd.  Meanwhile  the  rain  had  set  in  again  and  there 
was  a  general  scurrying  to  cover.  Citizen's  hall  was  filled  with  a  jolly 
crowd.  Captain  Andy  Holt's  house  contained  a  large  company  of  distin- 


LAFA  YE TTE  AR  TILLER  Y  CELEB R A  TION  577 

guished  guests,  and  the  stores  and  dwellings  of  the  village  were  meeting 
places  for  large  numbers.  For  a  wet  day  it  was  as  jolly  a  time  as  could 
be  imagined.  Just  to  put  the  finishing  touch  on  the  rainy  day  picture, 
'Andy'  Drum  took  his  First  Infantry  Band  on  Capt.  Andy  Holt's 
veranda,  and  gave  a  fine  concert.  Almost  everbody  was  there  in  a  few 
moments,  and  the  half  hour  before  '  mess  call '  was  one  of  the  most  en- 
joyable of  the  day. 

"At  noon  the  old  gun  roared  out  another  salute.  The  cavalry  trump- 
eters sounded  the  familiar  call  to  dinner  and  the  troopers  marched  to  the 
big  tent  as  they  do  at  camp.  A  quiet,  cosmopolitan  crowd,  men  high  in 
political  and  military  circles,  militia  men,  civilians,  all  sorts  of  people, 
sat  down  to  heavily  laden  tables  and  enjoyed  a  pleasant  dinner  hour,  the 
members  of  the  L/afayette  Artillery  company  acting  as  waiters."—  Union. 

The  post-prandial  exercises  consisted  of  speeches  from  the  dis- 
tinguished guests,  interspersed  with  music  of  a  sweet,  animat- 
ing and  inspiriting  character  by  the  band.  Mr.  Jacob  A.  Wood- 
ward presided.  The  local  pastor  offered  prayer,  and  after  fitting 
remarks  by  the  president,  he  introduced  Gov.  N.  J.  Batchelder, 
who  spoke  with  characteristic  ease  and  pleasantry  of  his  many 
visits  to  the  varied  gatherings  throughout  the  state.  "But," 
he  said,  ' '  among  the  things  that  a  governor  cannot  do  is  to  gov- 
ern the  weather  to  his  liking." 

He  had  ordered  fair  weather  for  the  day,  but  the  council  had 
not  confirmed  the  order.  He  congratulated  the  Artillery  Co.  on 
the  completeness  of  their  arrangements  for  celebrating  so  impor- 
tant an  event.  He  favored  occasional  retrospect  by  communi- 
ties as  well  as  individuals  ;  and  he  favored  also  the  tendency  in 
these  times  to  reverence  old  people,  old  homes,  old  organiza- 
tions ;  and  he  believed  that  the  military  of  a  state  holds  an  im- 
portant place  in  fostering  its  patriotism. 

Appropriate  to  these  words  of  our  governor,  it  may  be  stated 
that  135  men,  who  had  at  some  time  been  members  of  this  com- 
pany enlisted  as  soldiers  in  our  civil  war. 

Congressman  Currier  followed  in  complimentary  terms,  saying  that  "it 
was  remarkable  that  a  company  should  retain  its  organization  so  many 
years  as  this  had.  A  well  regulated  military  company  in  a  community 
gave  a  great  sense  of  security."  He  referred  to  the  part  New  Hampshire 
took  in  the  great  battles  of  colonial  days,  to  the  work  of  the  Rogers 
Rangers,  to  the  New  Hampshire  troops  at  Bunker  Hill  and  Stark's  vic- 
tory at  Bennington. —  Cabinet. 

[Lyndeborough  had  the  honor  of  sharing  in  all  these.] 

Ex-Congressman  Baker  followed  with  appropriate  remarks. 
Other  speakers  were  Hon.  C.  H.  Burns  of  Wilton,  C.  J.  Ham- 
blett  of  Nashua  and  J.  G.  Crawford  of  Manchester. 

Instead  of  any  attempt  to  give  a  sketch  of  the  company,  the 


578  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

carefully  prepared  history  printed  in  pamphlet  form  was  distrib- 
uted freely  as  a  souvenir  among  the  audience  until  the  supply 
was  exhausted.  This  is  substantially  the  same  as  the  historical 
sketch  of  the  company  given  in  this  volume.  (Pages  207-218.) 
While  the  exercises  were  in  progress,  the  troopers  and  officers 
of  Gen.  Tolles  staff  enjoyed  an  afternoon's  sport  at  revolver 
practice  on  the  hillside  behind  the  tent.  A  dress  parade  took 
place  about  five  o'clock,  and  a  large  and  attractive  crowd  filled 
the  hall  to  enjoy  the  dancing  in  the  evening. 

"Among  the  guests  were  :  Governor  N.  J.  Batchelder,  Brigadier-Gen. 
Jason  E.  Tolles,  Congressman  Frank  D.  Currier,  Adjt.  Gen.  A.  D.  Ayling, 
Col.  E.  C.  Hutchinson,  Lieut.  Col.  H.  H.  Jewell,  Maj.  A.  F.  Cutnmings, 
Maj.  George  M.  Follett,  Lieut.  Col.  A.  G.  Shattuck ;  Nathan  C.  Jameson 
and  wife,  Antrim;  O.  B.  Warren  of  Rochester,  junior  vice  department 
commander  of  the  Grand  Army  of  New  Hampshire ;  M.  L.  Piper  of 
Auburn,  United  States  capital  police  ;  Police  Commissioner  F.  D.  Run- 
nels of  Nashua;  Gen.  Chas.  H.  Burns,  Wilton;  Col. J.  E.  Pecker  of  Con- 
cord; Col.  W.  B.  Rotch  of  Milford  ;  Gen.  D.  M.  White  of  Peterborough ; 
former  Congressman  Henry  M.  Baker  of  Bow  ;  Col.  John  G.  Crawford  of 
Manchester;  Maj.  D.  E.  Proctor  of  Wilton;  Dr.  H.  S.  Hutchinson  of 
Milford,  the  Rev.  Francis  H.  Buffum  of  Winchester ;  Rev.  M.  F.  Johnson 
of  Nashua ;  Rev.  F.  A.  Robinson  of  Milford  ;  Rev.W.  N.  Donovan  of  New- 
town  Centre,  Mass.;  District  Attorney  Charles  J.  Hamblett  of  Nashua  ; 
H.  K.  Libbey  of  Manchester;  Judge  A.  I/.  Keyes  of  Milford." — Cabinet. 

Everybody  seemed  to  regard  the  centennial  celebration  of  the 
Lafayette  Artillery  as  a  complete  and  praiseworthy  success. 


CHAPTER  XXXIII. 
BIOGRAPHICAL,  SKETCHES. 

BY  REV.  D.  DONOVAN. 

JOHN  MASON. —  A  brief  account  of  John  Mason,  the  founder 
of  New  Hampshire,  can  hardly  fail  to  interest  those  who  live  on 
lands  included  in  the  grant  made  to  Gorges  and  Mason,  jointly, 
by  King  James  the  First  of  England,  in  1622. 

John  Mason  was  the  son  of  John  and  Isabella  Mason,  and  was 
born  in  Lynn  Regis,  or  King's  Lynn,  in  the  maritime  county  of 
Norfolk,  England.  Very  little  is  known  of  his  early  life.  He 
attracted  first  notice  as  a  merchant  in  London.  Later  he  en- 
tered the  naval  service,  and  became  an  officer  in  the  fleet  which 
assisted  the  Dutch  Republic  in  its  struggle  to  free  itself  from 
Spain.  In  1610,  after  the  independence  of  Holland  had  been 
secured,  he  was  made  commander  of  the  king's  fleet,  which  was 
sent  to  control  the  turbulent  people  of  the  Hebrides.  With  a 
squadron  consisting  of  two  ships  of  war  and  two  pinnaces,  fitted 
out  at  his  own  expense,  he  undertook  and  effected  this  task.  It 
was,  perhaps,  to  reimburse  him  for  the  expense  of  this  expedi- 
tion that  in  1615  he  was  made  governor  of  Newfoundland,  then 
one  of  the  most  valuable  of  the  English  possessions  in  North 
America.  He  made  the  first  English  map  of  that  island,  and 
was  commissioned  by  the  king  "  to  deal  with  the  pirates  then 
infesting  the  Newfoundland  region."* 

"  In  1621  he  returned  to  England,"  and  about  that  time  be- 
came intimately  connected  with  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges  and 
others  who  were  interested  in  colonizing  enterprises.  They, 
with  a  few  others  admitted  as  their  partners,  effected  the  settle- 
ment of  New  Hampshire  in  1623.  After  his  return  he  was  ap- 
pointed governor  of  the  town  of  Portsmouth,  England.!  When 
a  vacancy  occurred  in  the  Council  of  Plymouth,  Mason  "was 
elected  a  member  of  that  body,  and  was  chosen  their  secretary. 
He  was  thus  placed  in  the  front  rank  of  those  who  were  actively 
engaged  in  promoting  discoveries  and  encouraging  settlements 
in  North  America."!  His  election  to  the  "Great  Council  for 
New  England,"  composed  of  "persons  of  honor  and  even  of 
blood,"  of  which  in  November  he  became  vice-president, 

•Batchellor,  Vol.  XXVII.,  Pref.  pp.  4,  5- 
tProv.  Papers,  vol.  I,  p.  4.  |  Hist,  of  Town  of  Mason,  p.  o. 


580  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

"  showed  the  high  estimation  put  on  Mason  by  some  of  the  fore- 
most persons  in  England." 

"  Early  in  1635  the  Council  for  New  England  became  satis- 
fied of  its  inability  to  control  affairs  in  New  England.  It  had 
long  had  enemies  at  home  as  well  as  here.  There  was  an  unwill- 
ingness to  recognize  the  powers  granted  by  the  sovereign  in  the 
nature  of  government,  and  it  had  no  strength  to  enforce  its  de- 
crees. The  Colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay  became  large  and 
powerful,  and  disregarded  all  authority,  kingly  as  well  as  other, 
as  far  as  they  thought  it  prudent.  Complaints  against  the  council 
were  constantly  made  to  the  Privy  Council,  and  they  were  cited 
to  answer.  They  determined  thereupon  to  surrender  their  great 
charter  to  the  king,  and  to  divide  the  whole  territory  of  New 
England  among  themselves.  Pursuant  to  this  resolve  Mason 
received  a  new  grant  from  the  council,  dated  April  22,  1635,  °f 
the  lands  hitherto  granted  to  him  by  the  council.  This  grant 
embraced  all  the  land  between  the  Naumkeag  and  Pascataqua 
rivers,  extending  three  score  miles  inland,  with  the  south  half 
of  the  Isles  of  Shoals,  to  be  called  New  Hampshire." 

"  On  the  surrender  of  the  New  England  Patent  in  1635,  it 
was  the  design  of  the  king  to  place  over  that  territory  a  general 
governor,  and  Sir  Ferdinando  Gorges  received  the  appointment. 
To  complete  the  vice-regal  government,  Capt.  John  Mason  was 
appointed  Oct.  i,  Vice- Admiral  of  New  England." 

"  Mason  made  every  preparation  to  come  to  New  Hampshire, 
looking  forward  to  a  visit  to  his  plantation,  as  well  as  to  the 
charge  he  had  undertaken.  In  November  he  was  taken  ill,  and 
died  early  in  December,  1635,  an  event  that  proved  disastrous 
to  his  interests  in  New  England,  which  fell,  by  the  terms  of  his 
will,  to  his  widow  and  to  his  grandson,  then  not  one  year  old." 

"The  death  of  Mason  was  regarded  at  the  time"  by  "  his 
friends  and  associates  as  a  far-reaching  calamity,"  *  but  by  the 
Puritan  element  as  the  removal  of  a  formidable  obstacle  to  their 
designs  on  the  Pascataqua  plantations. 

He  had  taken  great  pains  in  founding  his  settlement.  He  in- 
troduced fine  cattle  from  Denmark  and  encouraged  agriculture. 
His  hope  was  to  enrich  himself  from  mines  of  the  precious 
metals  which  he  believed  were  to  be  discovered,  and  from  fish- 
eries which  would  be  developed,  as  well  as  from  traffic  with  the 
Indians  in  valuable  furs.  He  expended  large  sums  of  money  in 
laying  the  foundation  of  a  splendid  establishment  which  he  ex- 

*Batch.,  Vol.  XXVII.,  Pref.  p.  5. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  581 

pected  at  some  future  day  would  amply  reward  him  for  his  expen- 
diture. What  would  have  resulted  from  his  outlays  cannot  now 
be  calculated  with  any  certainty.  He  was  not  permitted  to 
reap  the  anticipated  fortune.  He  died  in  1635,  having  had 
about  twelve  years  in  which  to  improve  his  plantation.  About 
a  year  before  his  death  he  wrote  that  he  ' '  had  never  received 
a  penny  for  all  his  outlay  on  his  plantation  in  Pascataqua." 
Indeed,  until  the  near  approach  of  his  death,  his  opportunity  for 
the  greatest  usefulness  to  the  colony  had  not  arrived. 
He  had  but  one  child,  a  daughter,  Anne,  who  married  Joseph 
Tufton.  Three  sons  and  two  daughters  were  born  of  this  mar- 
riage, and  to  these  were  bequeathed  his  New  Hampshire  posses- 
sions. His  lineal  descendants  down  to  the  time  of  the  sale  of 
his  possessions  to  the  Portsmouth  syndicate  in  1746  are  given  as 
follows  by  Batchellor  XXVII.,  p.  6  of  preface  :  — 

1.  Capt.  John  Mason,  died  Dec.  1635. 

2.  Anne  Mason,  daughter,  married  Joseph  Tufton. 

3.  Robert  Tufton,  alias  Mason,  son  of  Anne,  born  1635.    Took  sur- 
name of  Mason  by  terms  of  his  grandfather's  will. 

4.  Robert  Tufton  Mason,  2nd.,  son.     He  and  his  elder  brother  John 
undertook  to  pass  their  interest  in  New  Hampshire  to  Samuel  Allen  in 
1691. 

5.  John  Tufton  Mason,  son,  died  in  Havanna  1718. 

6.  Col.  John  Tufton  Mason,  son,  born  in  Boston,  Mass.  Apr.  29,  1713: 
sold  title  to  lands  in  New  Hampshire  to  the  Masonian  Proprietors  in 
1746,  claiming  that  the  transaction  with  Allen  in  1691  conveyed  only  a  life 
interest. 

JUDGE  BENJAMIN  I/VNDE.—  The  first  of  this  name  of 
Lynde,  of  whom  we  have  record  in  this  country,  was  Simon 
Lynde,  son  of  Enoch,  of  London,  England,  a  wealthy  merchant. 
Simon  followed  his  father's  occupation,  and  in  1650,  when  he 
was  26  years  of  age,  came  to  New  England,  and  seems  to  have 
had  his  home  in  Boston.  He  possessed  much  wealth,  and  later 
in  life  was  by  royal  authority  appointed  one  of  the  counsellors 
for  New  England. 

Benjamin  Lynde  is  said  to  have  been  the  sixth  son  of  Simon, 
and  was  born  Sept.  22,  1666.  He  was  graduated  at  Harvard 
College,  and  entered  upon  the  study  of  law.  He  was  sent  to 
London  for  his  legal  education,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Middle 
Temple  Oct.  18,  1692.  He  returned  to  his  native  land  after 
completing  his  legal  studies,  and  was  soon  ranked  among  the 
foremost  in  his  profession  in  New  England.  On  the  resignation 
of  Judge  Sewall  in  1728,  he  was  made  chief  justice  of  the  prov- 


582  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

ince,  and  held  this  office  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  Jan.  28, 
1745.  A  brief  notice  of  him  in  the  Boston  Evening  Post  closes 
his  life  record  thus  :  — 

"  Inflexible  justice,  unshattered  integrity,  affability  and  humanity 
were  ever  conspicuous  with  him.  He  was  a  sincere  friend,  most  affec- 
tionate to  his  relations,  and  the  delight  of  all  who  were  honored  with 
his  friendship  and  acquaintance." 

Such  was  the  father  of  Benjamin  Ivynde,  Jr.,  Esq.,  the  promi- 
nent proprietor  of  many  shares  in  the  old  township  of  Salem- 
Canada. 

BENJAMIN  I/VTNDE,  JR.,  the  eldest  son  of  Judge  Benjamin 
L,ynde,  was  born  in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  October  15,   1700. 
He  entered  Harvard  College  in   1714,  and  was  graduated  in 
1718,    in   the  class  with    Theodore    Atkinson,    who  afterward 
became  chief  justice  of  New  Hampshire,  and  also  with  Richard 
Dana,   who   became   a   distinguished   advocate.     He   took   his 
master's  degree  in  1721,  and  was  appointed    a    special    judge 
of    the    Court    of    .Common    Pleas     for     Suffolk     County    in 
1734.        When     the     commission     appointed     for    the    settle- 
ment of  the  boundary  between   New  Hampshire  and  Massa- 
chusetts met  at  Hampton  in  1737,  he  was  named  as  one  of  the 
agents  to  accompany  it.     Two  years  later  he  was  made  one  of 
the  standing  judges  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Essex 
Co.,  and  in  1745,  the  year  of  his  father's  death,  "  he  was  raised 
to  the  Superior  Bench  of  the  Province."     The  latter  position  he 
held  for  twenty-seven  years,  and  he  was  also  a  member  of  the 
council  for  twenty-eight  years.     "  The  most  important  trial  that 
took  place  during  his  judicial  term  was  that  of  the  soldiers  who 
fired  on  the  mob  in  State  street.     In  the  absence  of  Chief  Justice 
Hutchinson,  Judge  I,ynde  presided.     It  was  a  time  of   great 
political  excitement,  and  the  occasion  was  one  that  required  the 
utmost  firmness  and  skill  on  the  part  of  the  judges  to  insure  a 
just  and  impartial  decision."     These  trials  lasted  several  days, 
and,  as  has  been  said,   "proceeded  with  care  and  patience  on 
the  part  of  the  Bench  and  counsel ;  and  both  Judges  and  Jury 
seem  to  have  acted  with  all  the  impartiality  that  is  exhibited  in 
the  most  enlightened  tribunals."     "The  result,"  said  Judge 
Washburn,  "  is  a  proud  memorial  of  the  purity  of  the  adminis- 
tration of  Justice  in  Massachusetts."     (Sketch  in  Journal   of 
Benjamin  I^ynde,  pp.  13,  14.) 

"  Judge  I^ynde  was  noted  for  his  learning,  his  liberality  and 
public  spirit."     "  On  November  i,  1731,  Judge  Lynde  married 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  583 

Mary,  the  daughter  of  Major  John  Bowles  of  Roxbury,  a  de- 
scendant of  the  Rev.  John  Eliot,"  the  famous  missionary  among 
the  Indians.  They  had  three  daughters.  Mary,  the  eldest, 
married  Hon.  Andrew  Oliver,  Jr.,  one  of  the  judges  of  the 
Common  Pleas  for  Essex. 

Hannah  died  unmarried ;  and  Lydia  married  Sept.  30,  1767, 
Rev.  William  Walter,  rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Boston,  "  who 
represented  the  Lynde  estate  in  the  meetings  of  the  proprietors 
for  many  years." 

In  the  spring  of  1781,  Benjamin  Lynde,  Jr.,  Esq.,  received  a 
kick  from  a  horse,  from  the  effects  of  which  he  did  not  recover, 
and  he  died  on  the  5th  of  October  following,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  81.  He  was  a  diligent  student  of  our  Colonial  History, 
and  was  a  contributor  to  "Prince's  Chronological  History  of 
New  England." 

An  extract  from  his  last  will  and  testament  follows  :  — 

"  I  give  and  devise  to  my  said  Grandchild,  B.  Lynde  Oliver  and  his 
heirs,  One  third  of  my  Lands  and  Farm,  (not  mortgaged  Lands)  I  shall 
die  possessed  of  in  the  Township  of  Lyndeborough  in  New  Hampshire." 

"  Item.  I  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  my  said  Grandson,  Lynde 
Walter,  two  of  my  Farms  at  Lyndeborough,  N.  H.,  which  I  had  in  right 
of  two  MASON i AN  GRAND  PROPRIETORS,  viz.,  No.  i,  adjoining  South  on 
Temple  Town,  and  No.  5,  adjoining  East  on  what  was  originally  Salem- 
Canada,  and  South  on  Mr.  Moffat  No.  2,  each  of  said  farms  containing 
200  acres  apiece,  to  him  and  his  heirs  forever ;  But  if  he  should  die  be- 
fore he  arrives  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years  of  marriage,  then  I  give  said 
Farms  to  any  son  of  my  daughter,  Walter,  called  after  my  name ;  and 
if  none  such,  then  to  my  Grandson,  Benjamin  Lynde  Oliver  and  his 
heirs  forever. 

Dated,  May  10,  1776. 

Diary  and  Letters  of  Benj.  Lynde,  Appendix  pp.  236  and  237. 

Mr.  Lynde  evidently  possessed  great  wealth  for  his  day,  and 
bequeathed  it  in  liberal  portions  among  his  children  and  grand- 
children. The  names  of  Walter  and  Oliver  figure  largely  in  the 
records  of  the  Lyndeborough  proprietors  after  Mr.  Lynde's 
decease,  as  his  heirs  and  successors. 

The  "Diary  and  Letters"  of  Benjamin  Lynde  contains  good 
portraits  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lynde.  (.The  N.  E.  Historic  Genea- 
logical Society,  Boston.) 

WILLIAM  WALTER,  D.D.— William  Walter  was  the  son 
of  Thomas  Walter  and  grandson  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Walter  of 
Roxbury,  Massachusetts.  His  mother  was  Rebecca,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Joseph  Belcher.  Thus,  inheriting  from  both  parents 


584  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

something  of  clerical  culture,  it  causes  little  surprise  that  he 
should  possess  literary  tastes  and  tendencies.  He  was  born  in 
1737,  and  was  graduated  from  Harvard  in  1756.  We  assume 
that  he  received  theological  training  at  the  feet  of  some  of  the 
pastors  in  his  vicinity.  Through  the  courtesy  of  the  sexton  of 
Trinity  Church,  Boston,  the  writer  was  permitted  to  copy  a 
brief  but  luminous  sketch  of  Doctor  Walter  from  the  sermon  of 
Rev.  Phillips  Brooks  at  the  consecration  of  the  new  Trinity 
Church,  Boston,  February  9,  1877.  When  speaking  of  the 
"  Greene  Foundation  for  the  support  of  an  assistant  minister," 
Dr.  Brooks  said : 

"The  first  assistant  Minister  on  the  Foundation  was  Dr.  William 
Walter,  and  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Hooper  he  became  Rector  of  the  parish. 
He  had  been  bred  a  Congregationalist,  but  became  a  member  of  our 
Church  and  went  to  London  for  ordination.  For  ten  years  he  served 
Trinity  with  faithfulness,  and  then  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution 
came.  On  the  ijth  of  March,  1776,  Boston  was  evacuated  by  the  British, 
and  the  Minister  of  Trinity  went  with  Gen.  Howe  and  the  British  troops 
to  Halifax,  N.  S.,  where  he  remained  until  the  Revolution  was  over. 
Then  he  returned  to  Boston,  and  became  the  Rector  of  Christ  Church. 
He  died  in  1800,  and  his  funeral  sermon  was  preached  by  his  successor 
in  Trinity,  Dr.  Parker.  That  sermon  gives  us  a  good  idea  of  the  faith- 
ful and  earnest  parish  minister,  and  though  in  those  hot  days  of  patriotic 
zeal  there  was  no  chance  for  one  who  was  not  of  sympathy  with  the 
cause  of  the  Colonies,  to  be  the  preacher  here,  the  very  fact  that  when 
the  war  was  over  the  royalist  could  come  back  to  Boston  and  become 
again  the  Rector  of  a  parish  in  the  town,  bears  witness  to  the  honor  in 
which  he  must  have  been  held." 

Under  date  of  September  30,  1767,  Benjamin  L,ynde,  Jr., 
Esq. ,  wrote  in  his  diary  : 

"My  daughter  L,ydia  married  to  Rev.  Mr.  William  Walter,  minister  of 
Trinity  Church  in  Boston,  where  she  went  to  live  the  7th  of  October 
following." 

Doctor  Walter  was  a  prominent  figure  among  the  lyynde- 
borough  proprietors,  especially  after  the  death  of  his  father-in- 
law,  Benjamin  Lynde.  When  present  in  their  meetings  he  was 
usually  chosen  moderator.  He  was  active  in  the  work  of  com- 
pleting the  disposal  of  Benjamin  Lynde's  estate  in  I^ynde- 
borough.  His  letter  to  the  Masonian  proprietors,  as  Rev. 
Frank  G.  Clark  has  appreciatively  said,  "is  well  worthy  of 
preservation  for  its  vigorous  English  and  as  showing  the  diffi- 
culties in  those  early  days  of  securing  accurate  surveys  of  lots." 
He  was  earnest  in  his  efforts  to  secure  fair  dealings  for  his 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  585 

associates,  and  ready  to  make  reasonable  concessions  to  those 
whose  claims  infringed  upon  the  Lyndeborough  grant. 

In  order  to  close  up  the  business  of  the  original  proprietors 
of  the  town,  the  common,  unoccupied  and  undivided  lands 
were  surveyed  and  a  map  was  made  of  the  ten  different  pieces 
of  unequal  value  to  be  disposed  of.  A  valuation  was  made  of 
the  several  pieces  by  judicious  and  reliable  men,  (Dea.  Ephraim 
Putnam  and  Capt.  Peter  Clark,  p.  92)  and  the  various  share- 
holders were  to  receive  a  piece  out  of  these  common  lands,  pro- 
portioned to  his  property  in  the  town.  As  the  representative  of 
Benjamin  Lynde,  Dr.  Walter  was  the  largest  shareholder.  For 
this  reason,  he  requested  that  he  might  have  the  privilege  of 
first  choice  out  of  the  common  lands.  To  this  request  his  asso- 
ciates readily  acceded,  as  expressed  in  the  following  terms : 

"Whereas  the  Rev.  Dr.  Walter  has  requested  that  he  may  be  allowed 
the  first  choice  in  said  commons ;  and  as  we  consider  he  has  taken  the 
lead  in  all  matters  that  have  been  transacted  in  the  meetings  of  the 
propriety  since  1792,  and  been  eminently  serviceable  to  the  propriety, — 
Voted,  that  he  be  allowed  his  choice  in  the  division  of  said  commons, 
provided  he  make  his  choice  known  at  the  next  meeting." 

This  vote  was  attested  by  Sewall  Goodridge,  Proprietors' 
Clerk. 

In  war  time  he  remained  in  Nova  Scotia.  "  He  returned  to 
Boston  in  1791,  became  rector  of  Christ  Church,  and  remained 
in  that  relation  till  his  death.*  He  died  in  Boston,  December 
5,  1800.  He  had  two  sons,  William  and  Benjamin  Lynde 
Walter,  who  were  merchants  in  Boston,  and  the  elder  of  whom 
became  the  founder  of  the  "  Boston  Transcript." 

COL.  ISRAEL  HUTCHINSON.— Colonel  Hutchinson  was 
an  early  proprietor  of  Lyndeborough  lands,  which  lay  upon  the 
northern  tier  of  lots.  Encroachments  were  made  upon  his  right 
by  Wallingford's  survey  and  purchasers,  so  that  his  estate  was 
eighty  acres  short  of  the  quantity  for  which  he  had  paid.  He  at- 
tempted to  have  the  matter  adjusted,  and  petitioned  the  Mason- 
ian  Proprietors  to  indemnify  him  "by  allowing  other  lands  or 
monies  that  shall  be  a  reasonable  compensation." 

Col.  Hutchinson 's  connection  with  the  Putnam  family  may 
account  for  his  investment  in  Lyndeborough  lands.     He  married 
Mehitabel,  the  widow  of  Archelaus  Putnam  of  Danvers,  Mass., 
and   was   himself   a    Danvers   man.     The  Putnams  of   Salerr 
Canada,  Jacob  and  Ephraim,  were  brothers  of  Archelaus,  a 

*  Memorial  Hist,  of  Boston,  Vol.  Ill,  PP-  "8,  129- 


586  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

possibly,  through  the  marriage  of  his  widow,  were  brought  into 
closer  relationship  in  business  with  Col.  Hutchinson.  An  ap- 
preciative notice  of  the  latter  is  found  in  the  New  England 
Magazine  for  October,  1902,  p.  230. 

Col.  Israel  Hutchinson  was  the  son  of  Elisha  Hutchinson, 
and  was  born  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  Nov.  27,  1727.  "  He  was  one 
of  a  scouting  party  in  the  Maine  wilds  in  Indian  warfare.  He 
was  at  Ticonderoga  and  Lake  George,  and  with  Wolfe  when  he 
scaled  the  heights  of  Abraham..  He  led  a  company  of  minute 
men  on  the  morning  of  the  iQth  of  April,  1775,  and  was  promi- 
nent at  the  siege  of  Boston,  commanding  at  Fort  Hill  on  evacua- 
tion. For  twenty-one  years  he  was  elected  to  Senate,  House  or 
Council.  He  died  in  1811." 

The  same  publication,  page  229,  presents  a  picture  of  his 
monument,  with  the  inscription  :  — 

Israel  Hutchinson 

1727 — 1811 

Served  his  Country  as 

Sergt.  Co.  of  Rangers  1757 

At  Lake  George  and  Ticonderoga  1758 

Capt.  Quebec  1759 

Capt.  Battle  of  Lexington  1775 

Col.  Siege  of  Boston 

— New  York — New  Jersey — 

— Crossing  of  the  Delaware — 

Trenton 


His  men  manned  boats  in 
Retreat  from  Long  Island 


Representative  and  Councillor 
21  yrs. 


An  Honored  Citizen  and  Loyal  Soldier 

Col.  Hutchinson's  marriage  with  Madam  Mehitabel  Putnam, 
brought  him  also  into  the  relationship  of  step-father  to  Miss 
Phebe  Putnam,  who  became  a  permanent  resident  of  L,yndebor- 
ough,  as  the  wife  of  Rev.  Sewall  Goodridge,  pastor  of  L,ynde- 
borough  for  more  than  forty  years.  The  relationship  also  has 
her  kindly  acknowledgment  in  the  fact  that  she  named  one  of 
her  favored  sons,  Israel  Hutchinson  Goodridge.  Mr.  Hutchin- 
son was  also  sufficiently  in  touch  with  L/yndeborough  to  become 
at  another  time  an  investor  in  'Scataquog  mine,  little  to  his  pe- 
cuniary profit.  He  appears  to  have  been  in  his  day  one  of  the 
prominent  men  in  the  Bay  State. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  587 

"  One  touch  of  nature  makes  the  whole  world  kin." 

JOHN  BADGER. —  Among  the  early  pioneers  in  Salem-Can- 
ada  came  John  Badger,  who  settled  near  the  southern  line  of 
the  town  in  1739.  He  with  his  two  brothers,  Joseph  and 
Eliphalet,  came  to  New  England  about  1728  or  1729.  Tradition 
has  it  that  the  father  was  a  wealthy  Englishman  who  had  done 
business  in  Scotland,  whither  he  had  sent  John,  his  youngest 
son,  to  collect  some  of  his  accounts.  While  thus  engaged  he 
had  formed  the  acquaintance  of  a  winsome  Scottish  lassie 
named  Mary  McFarland.  The  acquaintance  ripened  into  an 
intimacy.  The  attractions  were  mutual.  But,  it  is  said,  "the 
course  of  true  love  never  did  run  smooth."  The  truth  of  this 
sentiment  the  lovers  were  destined  to  test.  For  the  young 
man's  father  became  aware  of  his  son's  attachment ;  and  with 
a  Johnsonian  dislike  for  the  young  lady's  nationality,  attempted 
to  break  up  a  union  between  them.  He  accordingly  sent  John 
with  his  older  brothers  across  the  seas,  to  seek  his  fortune  in 
the  new  world.  But 

"  The  best  laid  schemes  o'  mice  and  men, 
Gang  aft  a-gley." 

The  heart  of  the  young  lady  was  too  deeply  enlisted  to  endure 
such  hindrance  and  submit  to  defeat.  Full  of  the  energy, 
hardihood,  and  fire  of  her  nationality  she  formed  the  purpose 
to  seek  her  lover,  to  brave  the  dangers  and  inconveniences  of 
the  sea,  and  share  his  fortunes  on  these  perilous  and  sparsely 
peopled  shores. 

"  Many  waters  cannot  quench  love,  neither  can  the  floods  drown  it." 
She  landed  on  the  shores  of  the  majestic  Sagadahoc,  where 
she  and  her  lover  were  soon  reunited  and  became  husband  and 
wife.     They  remained  no  long  time  in  Maine,  but  came  into 
this  province,  and  found  a  home  for  a  few  years  in  what  was 
then  known  as  Nottingham  West,  now  Hudson.     About  the 
year  1738,  Mr.  Badger  doubtless  visited  this  town.     He  erected 
his  cabin  and  entered  it  in  April,  i739-     A  melancholy  interest 
attaches  to  the  career  of  this  devoted  family  by  reason  of  1 
faithful  love  which  they  cherished  for  one  another,  and 
genuine  heroism   displayed  by  the   Scottish   maiden  and 
pioneer  matron.     John  and  Mary  Badger  were  the  paret 
three  children  before  they  came  into  this  town.     His  soj« 
here  was  brief,  for  he  was  the  first  settler  to  answer  the  un* 
come  summons  of  death.     In  February,   1740,  amid  the  . 


588  HISTORY  OP  LYNDEBOROUGH 

snows  of  well  iiigh  a  trackless  wilderness,  he  yielded  his  life  a 
victim  to  consumption.  He  died  in  the  night.  The  nearest 
neighbors  were  three  miles  away.  In  the  words  of  Dr.  Eph- 
raini  Peabody  : 

"His  wife  composed  him  on  the  bed  for  rest,  left  her  children,  of  whom 
she  had  three,  the  oldest  but  eight  years  of  age,  with  their  breakfast,  and 
with  strict  injunctions  not  to  wake  their  father,  as  he  was  asleep,  and 
putting  on  her  snowshdes  proceeded  to  seek  assistance.  That  indeed  was 
a  dreary  morning  as  she  went  forth  through  the  solitary  woods  of  winter. 
Death  is  in  her  home  aud  her  children  wait  her  return.  Uphold  her 
trembling  heart,  Thou  Father  of  the  fatherless  and  the  widow's  God! 
Neighbors  returned  with  her.  A  tree  was  hollowed  out  for  a  coffin,  and 
so  in  the  solitude  was  he  committed  to  the  earth.  .  .  .  What,  then, 
must  have  been  her  loneliness  —  a  solitary  widow  in  the  wilderness  !  She 
must  watch  by  the  bedside  of  her  children  alone ;  her  tears  shall  be  shed 
alone  ;  she  shall  no  more  kneel  by  her  husband's  side  to  pray;  his  voice 
shall  no  more  waken  her  at  morning,  and  when  the  night  approaches  she 
shall  unconsciously  look  forth  to  the  forest,  watching  for  his  return,  who 
shall  never  return  again."* 

In  the  sketch  of  the  history  of  L,yndeborough,  in  the  History 
of  Hillsborough  County,  Mr.  David  C.  Grant  gave  John  Badger 
the  credit  of  being  the  first  settler  of  Salem-Canada.  The  Gene- 
alogy of  the  Chamberlain  Family,  compiled  by  Mr.  Willis  B. 
Chamberlain,  page  12,  accords  this  honor  to  Mr.  John  Cram. 
Rev.  F.  G.  Clark  also  says  that  "  John  Cram  stands  at  the  head 
of  the  pioneers  of  the  settlement, ' '  and  the  Proprietors'  Records 
call  him  "  one  of  the  first  settlers." 

Manuscripts  of  more  recent  date  and  of  undoubted  authority 
make  it  clear  that  Mr.  John  Cram  was  the  first  settler  in  our 
town.  He  came  here  in  1737,  and  both  children  and  grand- 
children formed  a  part  of  his  household.  It  was  to  this  family 
that  Mrs.  Badger  went  for  assistance  at  the  time  of  her  hus- 
band's death. 

The  descendants  of  both  men  have  held  and  still  hold  a 
large  and  honored  share  in  the  affairs  and  population  of  L,ynde- 
borough. 

CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  BARRON.— William  Barren  was  a 
citizen  of  Lyndeborough  as  early  as  1768.  He  married  Olive 
Johnson. 

One  article  of  the  warrant  for  town  meeting,  Mar.  8,  1768, 
was,  "  To  see  if  town  will  except  of  a  road  laid  out  from  Josiah 
Dutton's  to  where  it  strikes  the  other  road  near  William  Bar- 

*Wilton  History,  pp.  41,  43. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  589 

ron's  house."  Nov.  28,  1769,  he  was  one  of  a  committee  chosen 
to  examine  what  land  was  allowed  for  the  meeting-house,  and 
to  see  that  the  land  was  bounded  and  put  on  record.  In  1771 
he  was  overseer  of  the  poor  and  a  member  of  the  school  commit- 
tee. In  1772  he  was  a  selectman,  and  the  next  year  tithing 
man.  In  March,  1775,  he  was  chosen  highway  surveyor,  and 
called  lyieut.  Barren  ;  and  in  1776  the  town  allowed  his  account 
for  horse-hire  to  go  to  the  army  at  Winter  Hill.  He  seems  to 
have  been  commissioned  as  captain  to  raise  a  company  to  defend 
Fort  Ticonderoga,  and  to  go  to  Canada  in  1776,  and  led  thither 
sixty  men.  The  muster  roll  of  his  company  is  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary Rolls  of  N.  H.,  Vol.  I.,  pp.  358-360.  It  is  also  in  N.  H. 
Town  Papers,  Vol.  XI.,  p.  720.  The  men  who  went  from  this 
town  were  as  follows  :  — 

Capt.  Wm.  Barren  Nathan  Batchelder 

Isaac  Dey  (Day)  Peter  Russell 

Samuel  Stevens  Asahel  Stiles 

James  Barnum  Hezekiah  Hamblet 

John  Savage  Joseph  Ellinwood 

John  Rowe  John  Carkin 

Philip  Fletcher  John  Bofee 

Reuben  Batchelder  Samuel  Butterfield 

From  1777  to  1779,  Wm.  Barren  was  constable  in  L,yndebor- 
ough,  and  in  1778  he  signed  a  protest  against  paying  Lyndebor- 
ough  men  for  military  services  which  were  performed  for  other 
towns,  and  for  which  those  towns  had  already  paid. 

In  1779  Wm.  Barren  was  one  of  the  committee  of  nineteen 
men,  chosen  to  set  a  value  on  the  necessaries  of  life  in  the  town, 
and  to  guard  against  any  breaches  of  the  agreement  thereon. 

In  1781  he  was  on  a  committee  chosen  to  enlist  the  quota  of 
the  town  for  the  army.  His  associates  were  Amos  Pearson, 
Eleazar  Woodward,  together  with  the  commissioned  officers ; 
and  in  the  same  year  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  committee  to 
examine  the  plan  of  government  for  the  state  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  was  licensed  as  a  tavern  keeper  year  after  year,  for  a 
long  period  ;  and  in  one  official  capacity  or  another,  as  highway 
surveyor,  constable,  overseer  of  the  poor,  sealer  of  weights  and 
measures,  school  committee,  keeper  of  the  town  stock  of  powder^ 
kept  in  the  church  loft,  and  deacon  of  the  church,  he  rende 
service  almost  every  year  from  1770  to  1800,  and  later. 

Rev.  F.  G.  Clark  says  :  — 

"During  the  Revolution  a  hotel  was  kept  by  Capt.  Barton,  north  of  the 
Badger  pond,  where  F.  B.  Tay  lives.  When  Burgoyne  was  captured,  a 


590  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

large  number  of  people  gathered  there  to  celebrate  the  event.  A  cask  of 
tar  was  raised  to  the  top  of  a  pine  tree,  over  which  was  placed  an  image  of 
the  British  commander,  and  after  dark  the  enemy  was  burnt  in  effigy.* 

CAPT.  WILLIAM  BLANEY.—  He  is  said  to  have  been  a 
sea  captain,  and  was  probably  a  relative  of  Major  Joseph  Blaney, 
one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  Salem-Cauada. 

On  a  commanding  elevation,  a  little  west  of  south  from  South 
Lyndeborough  village,  and  about  three-fourths  of  a  mile  distant, 
is  the  ruin  of  a  cellar,  over  which  once  stood  the  residence  of 
Capt.  Wm.  Blaney.  South  of  the  cellar  may  be  seen  aged  apple 
trees,  the  remnants  of  what  was  early  in  the  last  century  a  flour- 
ishing orchard.  Captain  Blaney  owned  extensive  pastures  in 
this  part  of  the  town,  a  portion  of  which,  now  the  property  of 
W.  N.  Cheever,  still  bears  the  name  of  "  the  Blaney  pasture." 
A  short  distance  to  the  north  of  the  old  cellar  are  traces  of  the 
tan-pit  where  he  evidently  conducted  a  tannery.  He  is  on  rec- 
ord as  having  bought  what  was  known  as  the  "  Stockwell  yard" 
in  Wilton,  the  deed  of  which  was  dated  Nov.  13,  1799.* 

Oct.  3,  1794,  Rev.  Sewall  Goodridge  gave  him  a  deed  of  a 
tract  of  land  adjoining  Wilton.  (See  p.  485  ;  also  p.  326.)  His 
pew  in  the  old  meeting-house  was  No.  6  on  the  ground  floor. 

He  was  a  revolutionary  soldier,  and  not  only  did  active  service 
himself,  but  also,  with  many  others,  hired  substitutes. 

On  a  gravestone  near  the  residence  of  Samuel  Dolliver  is  the 
inscription :  — 

"  In  memory  of  Christopher  S.  Blaney,  son  of  Capt.  and  Mrs.  Ruth  S. 
Blaney,  who  died  July  22,  1789,  aged  13  years,  5  months,  and  25  days. 
Affliction  sore  long  time  I  bore, 

Physicians  strove  in  vain, 
Till  God  was  pleased  to  give  me  ease 
And  took  away  my  pain." 

Capt.  Blaney  died  in  1802,  leaving  wife  and  five  minor  chil- 
dren. After  his  decease  the  family  left  town,  removing  to 
Marblehead,  Mass.  On  the  Probate  Docket  of  Essex  County, 
2,637,  Mrs.  Ruth  Blaney,  widow,  of  Marblehead,  was  appointed 
guardian  of  the  minor  children,  Oct.  15,  1806. 

OSGOOD  CARLETON.—  According  to  "Memorials  of  the 
Carletons,"  Osgood's  brothers  were  Jeremiah,  Timothy,  David 
and  Ebenezer  ;  and  his  sisters  were  Mary,  who  married  Reuben 
Batchelder,  and  Abigail,  who  married  first,  John  Johnson  ;  and 
second,  Ensign  David  Putnam ;  and  third,  Capt.  Jonas  Kidder. 

*Salem-Canada,  p.  37.  fWilton  History,  p.  173. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  591 

The  state  papers,  edited  by  Hon.  A.  S.  Batchellor,  Vol.  XXVII, 
pages  414  to  418,  give  samples  of  his  engineering  work  or 
draughtsmanship.*  "  Carleton's  Compendium  of  Practical  Arith- 
metic ;  Applied  to  the  Federal  and  Other  Currencies,"  was 
compiled  at  the  request  of  the  ' '  Associated  Instructors  of 
Youth,"  in  Boston,  and  published  in  1810. 

A  well  preserved  copy  of  this  work,  kindly  lent  by  descend- 
ants of  one  of  the  Carleton  family,  furnished  the  facts  above 
cited.  The  work  was  creditable,  and  esteemed  as  one  of  the 
worthy  successors  of  the  great  arithmetic  of  Nicholas  Pike, 
teacher  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  though  it  is  less  than  half  the 
size  of  that  famous  and  formidable  volume. 

Mr.  Carleton  was  married  and  settled  in  this  town.  His 
wife  was  I^ydia,  one  of  the  Johnson  family,  of  the  east  part  of 
the  town.  His  farm,  according  to  a  letter  of  John  Carleton, 
was  about  a  half  mile  south  of  the  meeting-house.  This  tallies 
with  an  old  deed,  from  "  Benjamin  L,ynde  to  Osgood  Carleton, 
of  Second  Division  L,ot  No.  56,  containing  130  acres."  This 
deed  was  dated  Dec.  21,  1768.  He  built  a  house  on  this  lot, 
and  seems  to  have  lived  there  several  years.  The  place  is  now 
known  as  the  L,ucas  place  ;  and  was  formerly  the  Manuel  place. 

He  must  have  left  Lyndeborough  a  short  time  before  the 
commencement  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  for  he  enlisted  in 
his  native  state,  Massachusetts,  May  i,  1775,  and  was  soon  pro- 
moted. (For  his  promotion,  see  Rev.  Rolls.) 

W.  H.  Grant,  Esq.,  found  a  record  stating  that  Osgood 
Carleton  "delivered  to  M.  Hillegas,  Continental  Treasurer  in 
1781,  six  boxes  containing  thirteen  million  one  thousand  six 
hundred  thirty-seven  Dollars,  Continental  money." 

Mr.  John  Carleton,  a  grandson  of  Jeremiah,  affirmed  that  he, 
himself,  had  seen  among  Osgood  Carleton's  papers,  receipts 
from  General  Washington  acknowledging  several  million  Pounds 
Sterling  which  had  been  paid  to  him. 

From  another  source  comes  the  account  of  Osgood  Carleton 
as  transportation  agent  of  the  government  money,  as  well  as 
army  paymaster,  stating  "  that  he  traveled  with  two  horses  and 
an  old  cart,  escorted  by  six  men  who  pretended  not  to  know 
him,  or  have  anything  to  do  with  him.  His  clothing  was  old 

*  The  writer  found  in  the  Old  State  House,  in  Boston,  a  "  map  of  the  city  from  actual 
surveys  made  by  Osgood  Carleton."    It  is  described  as,  "A  copy  of  a  r 
Boston,  presumed  to  be  the  only  one  extant,  published  by  George  B.  F< 
Copyright  Secured  1878." 


592  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

and  everything  was  done  to  avert  suspicion  of  his  having  any 
money,  and  he  was  never  molested." 

Authorities  differ  as  to  the  date  of  his  death.  The  work  en- 
titled, "  Memorials  of  the  Carletons,"  gives  the  date  as  1814; 
"Drake's  Dictionary  of  American  Biography"  describes  him 
as  "a  teacher  of  mathematics  and  navigation  ;  d.  I/itchfield,  N. 
H.,  June,  1816.  A  resident  of  Massachusetts,  he  published 
valuable  maps  of  that  State  and  of  the  district  of  Maine." 
Other  publications  were  "The  American  Navigator,"  in  1801 ; 
"The  South  American  Pilot,"  1804;  "A  map  of  the  United 
States,"  1806.  The  memorials  of  the  Carletons  report  his  hav- 
ing three  sons  :  Osgood,  b.  1783  ;  John  and  David.  He  is  said 
to  have  died  at  the  home  of  his  son,  in  L/itchfield,  N.  H.  (See 
Genealogies.) 

CAPTAIN  PETER  CLARK  of  Lyndeborough  was  a  descen- 
dant of  Hugh  Clark,  who  settled  first  in  Watertown,  Mass.; 
and  afterwards  removed  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  where  he  died  July 
20,  1693.  The  direct  line  of  descent  is  Hugh,1  Uriah,2  Rev. 
Peter,3  a  graduate  of  Harvard  in  1712,  Peter,4  a  graduate  of 
Harvard  in  1739,  Capt.  Peter,5  of  I^yndeborough. 

The  parents  of  the  latter  were  both  natives  of  Danvers,  Mass. 
His  father  preferred  farming  to  professional  life ;  and  Deacon 
Hobart  of  Braintree,  his  grandfather,  gave  him  a  farm  in  that 
town,  on  which  he  settled,  and  October  22,  1741,  married  Anna 
Porter  of  Danvers.  There,  in  Braintree,  February  4,  1743, 
Capt.  Peter  was  born. 

In  the  2ist  year  of  his  age,  October  20,  1763,  he  married 
Hannah  Epps  of  Braintree,  the  daughter  of  Daniel  Epps,  Esq. 
and  Hannah  (Prescott)  his  wife.  Daniel  Eppes  was  one  of  the 
old  Salem-Canada  proprietors ;  was  for  several  years  proprie- 
tors' clerk,  and  one  of  the  heaviest  shareholders  in  the  town- 
ship. It  was  doubtless  through  the  influence  of  his  father-in- 
law,  that  in  the  troubled  times  of  1775,  Peter  Clark  removed  to 
the  well-wooded  and  quiet  town  of  Lyndeborough,  N.  H. 
Here  he  made  for  himself  a  home  and  reared  a  noble  family, 
and  left  a  worthy  record,  not  only  of  heroism,  but  of  civic 
virtue  as  well.  He  lived  on  what  has  been  known  in  later 
years  as  the  Holden  place. 

Soon  after  coming  into  the  town  in  1775,  he  was  commis- 
sioned as  a  captain  of  the  gth  Regiment  of  New  Hampshire 
Militia.  On  the  alarm  connected  with  Burgoyne's  invasion,  he 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  593 

led  60  men,  proposed  destination  Ticonderoga,  to  join  Stark's 
command.  This  was  on  July  i,  1777.  The  fort  had  been  evacu- 
ated, and  his  company,  not  being  needed  in  camp,  returned  to 
their  farms.  Twenty  of  these  with  their  captain  belonged  in 
this  town,  and  their  names  are  to  be  remembered.  They  are 
given  on  pages  162  and  163. 

Capt.  Clark  set  out  on  a  second  expedition,  July  21,  1777. 
He  then  went  to  Bennington,  joined  Stark's  army,  and  with  his 
men  rendered  excellent  service  in  that  noted  battle.  Capt. 
Clark  was  said  to  be  one  of  the  first  men  to  mount  the  British 
defenses.  Twenty  of  our  townsmen,  including  the  captain, 
were  in  that  noted  fight.  Their  names  are  on  page  163.  The 
time  of  service  of  these  men  was  68  days. 

Captain  Clark  marched  a  third  time  on  the  2Qth  of  September, 
1777,  and  bore  a 'part  in  the  battle  of  Saratoga,  and  assisted  in 
the  capture  of  General  Burgoyne.  On  this  last  expedition, 
there  were,  including  him,  16  of  our  citizens,  whose  names  we 
give,  page  163. 

Before  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  Capt.  Clark  was 
commissioned  major  in  the  military  service.  His  commission  is 
one  of  the  cherished  heirlooms  of  the  family,  issued  November 
16,  1779,  and  signed  by  Meshech  Weare,  President  of  the 
Council  at  Exeter,  then  the  seat  of  our  State  Government. 

JOHN  CLARK,  brother  of  Capt.  Peter,  went  to  Lynde- 
borough  in  1775.  April  24,  1776,  he  married  Margery  Hay- 
ward,  who  died  November  26,  1808.  He  was  an  honest  man 
and  a  good  citizen,  and  died  in  L,yndeborough  March  19,  1814. 
Child. 

SAU.Y  CLARK,  b.  November  19,  1778.  m.  1802,  Benjamin, 
son  of  Rev.  Sewall  Goodridge  of  Lyndeborough. 

FRANCIS  CLARK,  son  of  Capt.  Peter,  moved  toBarre,  Vt., 
and  died  there.  He  was  the  father  of  Rev.  William  Clark, 
who  assisted  much  in  securing  the  genealogy  from  which  this 
information  is  derived. 

JOHN  CLARK,  youngest  son  of  Capt.  Peter,  was  remarkable 
for  his  musical  talent,  led  the  choir  for  many  years,  and  both 
he  and  his  sons  furnished  music  on  many  public  occasions. 

HANNAH  DEBORAH  CLARK,  sister  of  Rev.  B.  F.,  was 
educated  at  New  Ipswich  Academy,  and  at  Maplewood  Institute, 


594  HISTORY  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

at  Pittsfield,  Mass.  She  became  a  successful  teacher,  and  after 
residing  at  North  Chelmsford  two  or  three  years  with  her 
brother,  was  married  at  his  home,  March  7,  1843,  to  George  F. 
Gillmore,  Esq.,  of  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania.  "The  Gillmore 
Mission  School"  of  that  city  was  named  for  her.  She  was  noted 
for  the  energy  and  earnestness  of  her  Christian  character. 
For  other  notices  see  Genealogies. 

CRAM. —  The  first  settler  in  Salem-Canada  was,  undoubt- 
edly, Mr.  John  Cram,  who  came  from  Wilmington,  Mass.,  with 
his  wife  and  married  sons  and  marriageable  daughters,  and  with 
several  grandchildren.  As  he  was  foremost  among  the  settlers, 
so  also  was  the  Cram  family  one  of  the  oldest  of  whom  we  have 
any  record  among  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  town. 

The  origin  of  the  Crams  has  been  traced  back  to  very  remote 
antiquity.  It.  appears  first  among  the  Slavonic  people  who 
came  early  into  northeastern  Germany,  where  they  established 
themselves  and  were  noted  for  their  warlike  spirit.  Here  a 
branch  of  the  family  was  raised  to  baronial  dignity  and  a  long 
succession  of  knights  and  titled  nobility  reflected  honor  on  the 
name.  Another  branch  of  the  family  penetrated  into  France, 
whence  it  entered  the  Duchies  of  I^ower  Saxony  and  Brunswick 
in  the  ninth  century.  The  name,  however,  appeared  first  in 
the  archives  of  those  principalities  in  A.  D.  1181,  1206,  and 
1225,  where  it  was  written,  Von  Cramm,  the  prefix  Von  in 
German  names  being  a  well-known  mark  of  nobility.  From 
north  Germany,  a  branch  of  the  family  crossed  the  German 
ocean  and  established  its  home  in  England,  in  1528.  The 
founder  of  this  branch  was  Hans  (or  John)  Von  Cramm,  who 
"  with  six  men  at  arms,"  entered  the  service  of  the  Bishop  of 
Durham,  and  was  a  successful  and  honored  soldier.  "  In  con- 
sideration of  goodlie  service  at  warr,"  the  Dean  and  Canons  of 
Durham  "devised  unto  the  sayde  Hans  Von  Cramm  their 
dwelling-place  at  Felling  in  the  county  of  Dunholm,  lately 
called  the  Priorie."  Thus  was  the  family  enrolled  among  the 
landed  gentry  of  England. 

It  is  noted  as  a  peculiar  coincidence  that  Hans,  twelfth  child 
of  Burkard  Von  Cramm,  was  the  founder  of  the  family  in 
England ;  and  still  another  Hans,  or  John,  the  twelfth  child  of 
another  Burkard  and  Barbara  Cram,  became  the  founder  of  the 
family  in  America. 

The  progenitor  in  England  was  buried  at  Jarrow,  about   a 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  595 

half-mile  south  of  the  Tyne,  near  the  shore  of  the  German 
ocean.  His  tombstone  is  built  into  the  side  of  the  south  porch 
of  the  old  church  at  Jarrow.  The  place  is  noted  as  the  scene 
of  the  labors  of  the  venerable  Bede,  and  the  church  is  said  to 
contain  the  old  oak  chair  which  he  graced.  A  copy  of  the  in- 
scription on  the  old  tombstone  of  John  Cram  is  here  given : 
"  Hie  jacet  John  Cramm  qui  obiit  nonadecimo  die  Februarii  A° 
Dni  M°  DCLIII  nonagesimo  quarto  ejus  aie  ppetur  deus  Amen  ' ' 
The  English  Crams  have  the  same  general  ensign  as  the 
German  family,  the  crest  alone  being  changed,  to  indicate  that 
"they  got  it  as  vassals  or  liegemen  of  the  Abbey,"  i.  e.  of 
Durham.  As  a  matter  of  interest  both  coats  of  arms  may  be 
compared,  that  of  the  German  branch  being  copied  from  the 
archives  of  Brunswick,  the  form  in  which  the  family  "have 
borne  it  for  centuries."  Such  armorial  decorations  were  always 
highly  valued,  and  indicate  the  honor  in  which  the  family  or 
race  were  held. 

JOHN.—  This  was  the  name  of  the  first  one  of  the  family  in 
America.  He  was  born  at  Newcastle  on  the  Tyne,  in  1697,  and 
was  the  son  of  Burkard,  and  grandson  of  John  of  Jarrow.  He 
is  said,  by  one  authority,  to  have  probably  begun  "  to  live  in 
Boston  as  early  as  1635,  and  in  1637  was  assigned  sixteen  acres 
of  land  at  Muddy  River  (Brookline.)"*  "The  New  York 
Crams  ' '  states  that  ' '  he  and  his  wife  Esther  came  to  Boston  in 
1635,"  and  Savage,  another  authority,  is  said  to  have  given  1637 
as  the  time  of  his  arrival  there.  But  Major  General  T.  J. 
Cram,  U.  S.  A.,  December  24,  1874,  wrote,  "I  have  examined 
every  page  of  the  '  Records  of  the  Governor  and  Company  of 
Massachusetts  Bay,'  and  the  name  of  John  Cram  nowhere  ap- 
pears. If  he  had  ever  been  in  Boston  it  is  certain  that  his 
name  would  somewhere  be  seen."  But  "John  Cram's  name 
never  appears,  and  to  my  mind,  it  is  clear  that  he  never  was  in 
Boston,  but  that  he  came  first  to  Exeter,  where  he  was  one  of 
'Wheelwright's  Combination.'' 

The  Provincial  Papers  of  New  Hampshire  lend  color  to  this 
opinion   of    Major   General  Cram.t      For  the   name  of   John 
Cram  is  seen  on  several  petitions  and  other  papers  connecte 
with   Exeter.     Exeter  History  states  that   "he  had  wife  an 
two  or  more   children  when  he   came  to   Exeter."     His  s 
Joseph,  supposed  to  be  the  oldest,  was  drowned  June  24,  1648, 

*  Bell's  History  of  Exeter,  p.  24.  t  Bouton  I,  pp.  135-  US,  «*•  '79- 


596  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

aged  15  years;  and  his  daughter  Lydia  was  born  July  27,  of 
the  same  year.  He  served  as  townsman  1648  and  1649,  and 
soon  after  removed  to  Hampton,  and  there  died,  March  5, 
1 68 1 -2.  The  town  record  commemorates  him  as  "  good  old 
John  Cram,  one  just  in  his  generation."  He  was  twice  married, 
his  first  wife  being  named  Lydia ;  his  second,  Esther.  The 
latter  died  May  17,  1677.  They  had  four  children. 

1.  Benjamin,  who  married  Argentine  Cromwell,  a  relative  of 
old  Oliver,  Protector. 

2.  Thomas,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  Narragansett,  or  King 
Philip's  war,  which  ended   in   1676.     He  married    Elizabeth, 
daughter   of   Nathaniel    Weare,  a   member  of  the  Governor's 
Council,   and  one  of  the  most  distinguished    men    connected 
with  the  early  history  of  New  Hampshire. 

3.  Mary,  who  married  Abraham  Tilton.     (of  Bow?) 

4.  Lydia,  of  whom  there  is  no  record,  save  her  birth  in  1648. 
John  Cram  and  his  wife  were  both  members  of  the  Hampton 

church.  It  is  said  that  ' '  no  Crams  have  been  found  in  America 
whose  ancestry  could  not  be  traced  back  to  him." 

JOHN  CRAM,  grandson  of  the  fore-named,  was  the  first 
settler  of  both  Salem-Canada  and  I/yndeborough.  It  is  true 
that  the  territory  included  under  both  these  names  is  not  exactly 
the  same.  Salem-Canada  included  all  the  territory  now  in 
Lyudeborough,  and  much  more.  But  the  property  of  John 
Cram  was  in  both  the  old  grant  issued  by  the  General  Court  of 
Massachusetts,  and  also  in  that  covered  by  the  charter  of  the 
Masonian  Proprietors,  which  was  later  confirmed  by  the  Pro- 
vincial Charter,  under  Governor  Benning  Wentworth.  Because 
of  his  priority  of  settlement  and  the  influence  of  his  many 
descendants,  it  seems  proper  to  extend  somewhat  our  notice  of 
his  life. 

John  Cram,  the  pioneer  in  this  town,  was  born  in  Hampton 
Falls,  January  12,  1685.  He  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Cram  and 
Elizabeth,  the  daughter  of  Hon.  Nathaniel  Weare,  later  Chief 
Justice  of  the  Province.  Thomas  Cram,  the  father  of  our 
townsman,  had  been  a  soldier  in  the  Narragansett,  or  King 
Philip's  War,  and  in  1738,  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of  Hamp- 
ton Falls.*  In  1749,  we  find  his  name,  or  possibly  his  son's, 
attached  to  a  petition  to  the  governor,  for  a  grant  of  land  for  a 
township.  Connected,  thus,  with  prominent  families,  both 

*.State  Papers,  XII,  pp.  131,  136,  137. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  597 

through  the  Weares  and  the  Crams,  the  early  advantages  and 
social  standing  of  John  were  doubtless  of  the  very  best.  This 
is  believed  to  be  implied  by  the  respectful  terms  in  which  he  is 
mentioned  in  the  earliest  Proprietors'  Records  of  Salem-Canada, 
as  well  as  by  the  various  responsibilities  devolved  upon  him  by 
the  primitive  settlers  of  the  town.  The  esteem  in  which  he 
was  held  in  his  native  place  was,  doubtless,  undiminished  by 
his  marriage  in  1707,  to  Sarah,  daughter  of  Henry  Holt,  of 
Andover,  Mass.  The  next  year  after  his  marriage,  we  find 
him  performing  military  duty  at  Fort  William  and  Mary,  in 
which  year,  also,  Jonathan,  his  eldest  son,  was  born.*  It  is 
of  some  importance  to  note  this  fact ;  for  at  a  later  day,  both 
father  and  son  served  in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  after  they 
had  become  citizens  of  Salem-Canada. 

Among  the  names  on  the  schedule  attached  to  the  royal 
charter  of  the  town  of  Chester,  granted  in  1722,  is  found  that 
of  John  Cram.t  The  list  of  the  proprietors  of  Chichester 
whose  charter  bears  date  of  1727,  also  contains  the  names  of 
Thomas,  John  and  Benjamin  Cram.  Such  a  recurrence  of  his 
name  indicates  that  John  Cram  must  have  possessed  some 
pecuniary  resources ;  that  he  was  something  more  than  an 
ordinary  settler.  His  large  family,  well  situated  and  well  con- 
nected matrimonially,  must  have  added  somewhat  to  his  influ- 
ence and  to  the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  fellow- 
citizens  in  Salem-Canada. 

He  settled  first,  after  his  marriage,  in  his  native  town, 
Hampton  Falls.  There  three  of  his  children  were  born.  He 
and  his  wife  were  dismissed  from  the  church  at  Hampton  Falls, 
April  13,  1712.  He  was  settled  in  Woburn,  Mass.,  in  1713, 
and  there  all  his  remaining  children  were  born.  Among  these 
were  two  sets  of  twins,  his  daughters,  Sarah  and  Elizabeth, 
constituting  one  set,  and  his  sons,  EH  and  Benjamin,  the  other. 

May  16,  1727,  he  sold  his  Woburn  property  to  Benjamin 
Abbott,  and  removed  to  Wilmington,  Mass.  He  united  with 
the  church  in  Wilmington,  October  24,  1733.$  On  May  11, 
1737,  he  sold  one-half  of  his  farm  to  his  son  Jonathan,  and 
settled  in  Salem-Canada,  New  Hampshire. 

In  the  sketch  of  Lyndeborough  by  Mr.  David  C.  Grant  is 
the  statement : 

"  The  first  settlers  in  what  is  now  Lyndeborough  were  Cram,  Putnam 

*Prov.  Papers,  XII,  p.  112.    t  Batch.  XXIV,  p.  568.     \  Wilmington  Church  Record. 


598  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

and  Chamberlain,  descendants  of   whom  now  reside  in  town.     But  the 
first  settler  in  Sal  em-Canada  (now  Wilton)  was  John  Badger." 

It  would  be  more  exact  to  say  that  the  first  settlers  in  Salem- 
Canada,  the  greater  part  of  which  is  included  in  L,yndeborough, 
were  Cram,  Putnam  and  Chamberlain.  But  the  first  settler  in 
that  part  of  it  which  is  included  in  Wilton  was  John  Badger. 

The  latter  statement  is  believed  to  be  correct,  and  leaves 
little  room  for  any  misunderstanding.  That  there  was  a  fort, 
also,  in  old  Salem-Canada  can  hardly  be  counted  a  matter  of 
doubt,  though  it  is  very  doubtful  whether  it  was  built  pre- 
vious to  1740,  the  year  of  Badger's  decease. 

There  seems  conclusive  evidence  that  John  Cram  established 
a  permanent  residence  here  in  1737,  when  his  youngest  chil- 
dren were  about  sixteen  years  of  age.  His  twin  daughters, 
Sarah  and  Elizabeth,  were  about  eighteen  years  of  age.  The 
former  married  Kphraim  Putnam,  who  was  for  a  time  ' '  com- 
mander of  the  fort  or  blockhouse ;  ' '  and  was  prominent  in 
Revolutionary  movements ;  the  latter  married  Jonathan  Cham- 
berlain, who,  with  his  son,  Jonathan  "marched  from  L,ynde- 
borough  for  Ticouderoga,  on  July  i,  1777,  in  Capt.  Peter 
Clark's  Co.  of  militia."  *  Not  only  were  there  grown-up 
sons  and  daughters,  but  there  were  grandchildren  when  he 
came  into  this  town,  although  he  preceded  them  by  three  years 
or  more  as  a  resident. 

Some  of  the  first  work  in  clearing  roads  and  building  the 
meeting-house  was  done  by  Mr.  John  Cram  and  his  oxen.  The 
first  proprietors,  most  of  whom  dwelt  in  Salem,  Mass.,  and  in 
adjoining  towns,  began  in  1738  to  bargain  with  him  about 
building  a  saw  mill,  and  he  engaged  with  them  to  build  it.  He 
fulfilled  his  agreement  apparently  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  pro- 
prietors, and  received  No.  39,  the  mill  lot,  containing  130  acres, 
situated  west  of  the  village  of  South  L,yndeborough,  for  the 
service.  Until  that  date,  1740,  the  dwellings  were  log  cabins, 
and  were  not  numerous. 

The  saw-mills  of  Nathaniel  Putnam  and  John  Cram  now 
began  their  operations,  and  prepared  the  boards  and  smaller 
timbers  needed  for  the  framed  houses.  In  a  very  few  years, 
however,  the  work  of  the  settlers  was  interrupted  by  the  French 
and  Indian  War,  also  known  as  Qneen  Anne's  War.  In  this 
war  both  John  Cram  and  his  son  Jonathan  bore  a  part.  The 
father  must  at  that  time  have  been  about  sixty  years  of  age. 

*  Chamberlain  Family,  p.  12. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  599 

According  to  records  preserved  in  the  family  of  Mr.  Andrew 
Harwood,  but  now  lost,  "  Sarah  the  wife  of  John  Cram  died  in 
Sept.  or  October  1757,  between  seventy  and  eighty  years  of  age  ; 
and  John  Cram  died  in  Amherst  in  1759.*  Thus  ended  an  ac- 
tive, honored,  prosperous  and  useful  life. 

JAMES  S.  CRAM  was  a  great-grandson  of  Mr.  John  Cram, 
the  earliet  settler  of  the  town.  He  lived  on  what  is  now  known 
as  the  Rose  place,  situated  on  what  was  then  the  thoroughfare 
between  Amherst  and  Greenfield,  and  the  Asheulot  townships. 
Amherst  was  the  seat  of  "  The  Aurean  Academy,"  which 
James  S.  had  the  privilege  of  attending.  His  manuscript  book, 
which  bears  date  of  1795,  is  quite  a  marvel  of  neat  penmanship 
for  those  days.  It  is  devoted  entirely  to  mathematics.  The 
subjects  of  which  he  treated  were  often  printed  with  his  pen  in 
ornamental  letters,  like  Old  English  or  German  text,  or  some- 
times in  neat,  round  English  script  of  the  writing-master.  His 
skill  in  mathematics  led  many  people  to  seek  his  aid  in  the  solu- 
tion of  difficult  problems,  which  presented  little  difficulty  to  him, 
and  were  easily  mastered.  His  manuscript  book  begins  with 
involution  and  evolution,  passes  on  to  progressions,  to  plane  and 
solid  geometry,  mensuration  of  plane  surfaces  and  solids,  sur- 
veying and  trigonometry.  His  figures,  geometrical  drawings, 
and  pen  and  ink  sketches  of  hills,  towers  or  steeples  show  the 
talent  of  an  expert. 

He  spent  some  time  as  a  teacher  in  his  native  town,  and  com- 
piled a  "First  Spelling  Book,  Designed  as  an  Introduction  to 
Other  Spelling  Books."  It  was  printed  at  Concord  by  Hoag  & 
Atwood,  1831.  He  stated  in  the  preface  that  his  main  object  in 
compiling  it  was  ' '  to  assist  young  children  in  acquiring  a  thor- 
ough knowledge  of  monosyllables,  which  would  greatly  facilitate 
their  progress  in  the  larger  Spelling  Book." 

He  also  cultivated  a  taste  for  music,  and  taught  singing 
schools.  The  works  of  the  old  composers  and  masters  were 
among  his  treasures.  A  copy  of  the  "Grand  Hallelujah 
Chorus  "  in  Handel's  "  Messiah,"  is  well  preserved,  within  the 
covers  of  his  singing  book,  "  The  Rural  Harmony,"  which  he 
used  in  his  singing  schools.  This  book  was  printed  by  Isaiah 
Thomas  and  Ebenezer  T.  Andrews  in  Boston,  1793-  For  other 
facts  see  Genealogies. 

*Rev.  F.  G.  Clark,  letter  to  D.  C.  Grant. 


600  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

MR.  AND  MRS.  DAVID  GAGE.—  David  Gage,  a  native  of 
Merrimack,  N.  H.,  at  one  time  taught  the  village  school  in 
South  I/yndeborough,  where  he  became  acquainted  with  Miss 
Betsey  Putnam,  also  a  teacher,  whom  he  afterwards  married. 
She  was  the  daughter  of  Squire  Daniel  Putnam,  and  became 
Mrs.  Gage,  Aug.  12,  1823.  After  their  marriage  they  set  out 
for  their  chosen  work  as  teachers  among  the  Cherokee  and 
Chocktaw  Indians,  under  appointment  as  missionaries  of  the 
American  Board.  They  traveled  with  their  own  horse  and  car- 
riage, going  from  eighteen  to  thirty-four  miles  a  day,  and  had  a 
pleasant  and  prosperous  journey  across  parts  of  seven  states. 

After  teaching  a  short  time  near  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  Mr.  Gage 
went  south  into  Wayne  Co.,  Miss.,  and  took  charge  of  both  the 
literary  and  industrial  departments  of  the  mission  school,  at  the 
Choctaw  Agency.  In  1826,  he  had  in  his  school  sixteen  boys, 
iwo  girls,  who  boarded  in  the  family,  and  three  others,  who 
boarded  at  their  homes.  His  dwelling  was  of  the  primitive 
kind,  sixteen  by  eighteen  feet,  built  of  logs,  and  the  chimney  of 
sticks. 

In  the  summer  of  1828  he  spent  much  of  his  vacation  in  travel, 
and  at  one  of  the  meetings  which  they  rode  about  sixty  miles  to 
attend,  there  were  five  or  six  hundred  natives  present  and  sev- 
enteen or  eighteen  missionaries.  Two  hundred  and  sixty-six 
natives  came  forward  and  expressed  a  determination  to  seek  the 
salvation  of  their  souls.  The  meeting  continued  from  Thursday 
till  Monday.  Many  natives  had  not  provision  for  so  long  a  stay, 
and  prompted  by  hunger,  were  preparing  to  start  for  home  on 
Sunday.  The  missionaries  and  professing  Christians  were  anx- 
ious that  they  should  remain.  One  Choctaw  man  arose  and 
said  that  ' '  he  had  nothing  to  eat  —  he  was  hungry,  and  sup- 
posed the  rest  were  ;  but  what  of  that  ?  We  shall  not  starve  to 
death  in  three  days.  We  now  have  the  means  of  grace,  and  if 
we  can  get  to  Heaven,  it  would  be  good  for  us  to  stay  here  till 
our  flesh  dried  on  our  bones." 

Mr.  Gage  continued  his  labors  among  the"  Indians  until  they 
were  removed  by  the  government  west  of  the  Mississippi  River. 
He  died  Oct.  3,  1841,  and  was  buried  near  I/ivingston,  Sumter 
County,  Alabama.  His  devoted  wife,  with  her  four  little  chil- 
dren, returned  to  I/yndeborough  in  June,  1842.  They  em- 
barked on  a  sailing  vessel  from  Mobile,  Ala.,  and  came  to  New 
York,  and  thence  by  Sound  boat  to  New  London,  Conn.,  thence 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  601 

by  railroad  to  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  so  on  to  Nashua,  and  her 
former  home. 

CALEB  HOUSTON.!- W.  H.  Grant,  Esq.,  wrote  to  his 
brother,  David  C.,  in  April,  1889,  giving  interesting  items 
gleaned  from  Farmer  &  Moore's  Gazeeter  of  New  Hampshire, 
published  in  1823,  concerning  Caleb  Huston,  or  Houston,  as 
the  name  is  frequently  written,  a  native  of  Lyndeborough,  who 
was  graduated  at  Williams  College  in  1812,  and  was  probably 
the  first  college  graduate  of  this  town. 

Later  Mr.  Grant  wrote  that  Caleb  Houston  died  at  Columbus, 
Ohio,  about  1850.  He  was  elected  one  of  the  councilmen  on 
the  organization  of  the  Borough  of  Columbus,  in  1816.  In  1819 
he  with  two  others  erected  a  saw-mill  upon  a  new  patent  plan. 
'  The  saw  was  circular,  and  was  to  cut  constantly  ahead,  with 
no  back  strokes."  The  historian  (of  Columbus)  says:  "  it  was 
an  experiment,  and  cost  them  a  good  deal  without  answering 
any  valuable  purpose." 

Mr.  Grant  thought,  however,  that  Caleb  Houston's  "  was  the 
first  circular  saw  ever  used  for  saw-mill  purposes." 

CAPT.  JONAS  KIDDER.— Captain  Jonas  Kidder,  the  son 
of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Proctor)  Kidder  was  born  in  Hudson, 
N.  H.,  Nov.  1 6,  1743.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  came  to  Lynde- 
borough  in  1766,  and  settled  on  Second  Division  lot  105,  east 
of  Esq.  Andrew  Fuller's  place.  When  the  Revolutionary  War 
broke  out,  Mr.  Fuller  and  he  united  in  hiring  Mr.  Samuel 
Butterfield  to  enlist  in  Capt.  Barren's  company,  raised  for  ser- 
vice in  Canada,  but  performing  its  chief  service  at  Fort  Ticon- 
deroga  in  1776.  His  military  record  will  be  found  on  page  190 

In  1780  it  was  known  that  the  British  forces  were  unusually 
active,  and  the  object  of  their  activity  was  strongly  suspected, 
although  the  extent  and  venality  of  their  purposes  were  for  the 
time  unsurmised.  The  capture  of  Major  Andr6  at  Tarrytown, 
with  the  documents  found  in  his  possession  betrayed  the  full 
scope  of  their  atrocious  plot.  The  treachery  and  corruption  of 
Arnold  were  thus  revealed,  and  the  whole  deeply  planned 
scheme  to  get  possession  of  West  Point,  the  American  strong- 
hold on  the  Hudson,  burst  upon  Washington  and  his  associates 
like  the  terrifying  shock  of  an  earthquake.  The  patriots 
had  divined  the  drift  of  their  enemies'  activities.  They  were 

tCaleb  Houston  was  town  clerk  of  I,yndeborough  in  1807.  He  was  a  good  penman  and 
evidently  a  man  of  more  than  ordinary  ability. 


602  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

alert  and  were  making  extraordinary  efforts  to  reinforce  and 
strengthen  the  garrison  at  West  Point.  The  men  who  could 
be  spared  elsewhere  were  hastened  thither.  Bounties  were 
liberally  paid  to  able  bodied  men  who  would  enlist,  and  several 
from  L,yndeborough  were  among  the  forces  which  were  sent  for- 
ward. These  efforts  were  timely,  and  proved  of  great  service  to 
the  patriot  cause. 

Captain  Kidder  was  on  duty  there  in  those  stirring  times.  It 
is  stated  that  he  was  entrusted  with  the  important  service  of 
guarding  the  spy,  Major  Andre,  the  night  before  his  execution. 
The  list  of  Captain  Kidder's  company,  together  with  their 
places  of  residence  is  found  in  the  N.  H.  Revolutionary  Rolls, 
Vol.  3,  pp.  161,  162.  The  I<yndeborough  men  who  were  with 
him  were  :  — 

Samuel  Houston,  sergeant  Edward  Bevins 

Jacob  Button,  fifer  Willard  Lund 

John  Punchard,  drummer  Simeon  Fletcher 

Daniel  Cram  Stephen  Richardson 

Edward  Spaulding  Amos  Manuel 

His  company  was  stationed  at  Camp  Highlands, Sept.  27, 
1780. 

In  1781  and  1782  Jonas  Kidder  was  serving  his  town  in  a 
civil  capacity  as  one  of  her  selectmen,  associated  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Ephraim  Putnam,  in  that  office.  His  petition, 
in  company  with  three  other  captains,  recorded  on  pages  190 
and  191,  indicates  the  deplorable  poverty  of  our  state  treasury 
at  that  time,  1781.  It  was  powerless  to  relieve  the  distresses  of 
the  men  who  had  rendered  heroic  service  on  many  hard  fought 
fields,  by  paying  them  their  overdue  wages.  Their  hardships 
were  not  ended  when  the  din  of  warfare  was  hushed.  They 
were  sufferers,  not  only  on  the  tented  fields,  but  also  after  their 
return  home.  Honored  be  their  memory  forever  ! 

Jonas  Kidder  was  about  forty  years  of  age  when  the  Revolu- 
tionary War  closed,  and  probably  did  not  receive  a  pension  till 
about  eighty  years  old.  There  is  a  story  current  that  while 
living  up  on  the  side  of  the  mountain,  and  attending  to  his 
ordinary  farm  work,  he  learned  from  some  younger  neighbor, 
unacquainted  with  Jonas'  history,  that  the  survivors  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary War  were  now  receiving  pensions,  and  responded, 
that  "  perhaps  then  he  should  get  something."  "You,"  said 
his  informer,  "what  did  you  do?"  He  answered  modestly, 
"  I  was  in  that  war,  and  was  captain  for  a  while." 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  603 

He  went  to  his  old  papers  and  after  some  fumbling  of  them 
found  his  discharge  from  the  service  duly  filled  out.  He  drew 
a  pension  which  aided  in  supporting  him  in  his  old  age. 

Captain  Kidder  was  thrice  married,  first,  to  Huldah,  daughter 
of  Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Cram)  Putnam,  Nov.  26,  1768;  second, 
to  Mrs.  Alice,  (widow  of  Nathan)  Barren,  and  daughter  of 
Amos  Taylor,  May  20,  1779  ;  and  third,  to  Mrs.  Abigail  (Carle- 
ton)  (Johnson)  (Putnam),  sister  of  Osgood,  Jeremiah  etc.,  and 
widow  of  John  Johnson,  who  perished  in  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  afterwards  widow  of  Ensign  David  Putnam.  She 
survived  her  third  husband,  who  is  said  to  have  been  84  years 
of  age  when  he  married  her,  July  5,  1827,  while  she  was  74. 

Captain  Kidder  died  in  his  native  town  of  Hudson,  at  the 
home  of  his  daughter,  Hannah,  who  became  Mrs.  Levi  Cross  of 
that  town.  (For  further  information  see  Genealogies.) 

CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  LEE.— A  somewhat  appreciative 
notice  of  William  Lee,  in  the  History  of  Francestown,  page 
795,  states  that  he  settled  in  that  town  in  1771,  and  lived  in  the 
southeast  part  of  it  where  he  cleared  and  settled  the  place  after- 
wards occupied  by  Daniel  Clark,  and  was  a  man  of  some  promi- 
nence, being  one  of  the  board  of  selectmen  in  1773.  It  further 
credits  him  with  Revolutionary  service  for  both  Francestown 
and  Lyndeborough,  and  appears  to  cast  doubt  on  his  right  to 
the  title  of  captain,  on  the  ground  that  though  he  was  some- 
times called  so,  the  pay-roll  calls  him  "  Ensign  William  Lee." 
Such  is  the  substance  of  the  brief  notice  of  him  above  re- 
ferred to. 

Our  Lyndeborough  annals  have  no  record  of  the  time  or 
place  of  his  birth  ;  and  we  cannot  quite  see  how  he  could  settle 
in  Francestown  in  1771,  which  was  not  incorporated  till  1772. 

Apart  from  the  above-mentioned  statement,  we  have  found 
nothing  to  show  that  he  served  for  Francestown  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary War. 

We  will,  however,  state  upon  credible  authority,  which  we 
shall  give,  some  facts  which  we  have  found  on  record,  in  rela- 
tion to  Captain  William  Lee. 

The  Revolutionary  Rolls  credit  his  service  constantly  to 
Lyndeborough.  From  here,  four  days  after  the  Lexington  and 
Concord  fight,  he  enlisted  in  the  company  of  Capt.  Levi  Spauld- 
ing.  His  name  was  number  4  on  the  pay-roll,  with  the  rank  of 
sergeant.  He  was,  therefore,  with  Capt.  Spauldiog  and  his 


604  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

company,  at  Bunker  Hill.  His  term  of  service  then  was  three 
months  and  sixteen  days.  The  Lyndeborough  record  gives 
him  as  one  of  the  men  who  went  from  Winter  Hill  to  Canada 
in  1776,  and  returned  to  Trenton.  He  seems  to  have  spent 
Christmas  of  that  year  somewhere  near  the  camp  of  the  Hes- 
sians. On  the  7th  of  November  just  before,  he  was  commis- 
sioned 2nd  lieutenant  in  the  First  Battalion  of  New  Hampshire 
troops  in  the  Continental  Service. 

In  the  town  records  he  is  called  Ensign  William  Lee.  He  re- 
signed his  commission  as  2nd  Lieutenant  or  Ensign  on  January 
10,  1778,  and  on  the  7th  of  the  following  August,  had  the  rank 
of  captain,  and  commanded  a  company  in  Col.  Moses  Nichols' 
regiment,  in  the  Expedition  to  Rhode  Island.  That  expedi- 
tion was  in  service  only  24  days.  But  the  Lyndeborough  men 
who  were  in  his  company  were  among  those  of  highest  stand- 
ing in  the  town,  indicating  that  William  Lee  was  no  ordinary 
man. 

The  late  Mr.  David  C.  Grant  gave  correctly  the  portion  of 
the  town  in  which  Captain  Lee  lived.  This  portion  was  at  a 
later  day  taken  from  Lyndeborough  to  constitute  the  town  of 
Greenfield.  In  that  part  of  the  town,  one  of  the  small  streams 
which  flows  into  Rocky  River,  still  bears  the  name  of  "The 
Lee  Brook." 

Captain  Lee  seems  to  have  left  our  town  soon  after  the  close 
of  the  Revolutionary  War  ;  and  is  reported  to  have  settled  in 
Weston,  Vermont.  Some  of  his  descendants  returned  to  New 
Hampshire,  and  lived  in  Hancock.  According  to  the  Hancock 
History,  Vol.  II,  p.  738,  note,  three  of  his  grandsons  were 
Union  soldiers  in  our  Civil  War.  One  of  these,  Charles  Henry 
Lee,  married  Eliza  Josephine  Newell,  who  was  born  in  Lynde- 
borough,  November  24,  1850,  daughter  of  John  Newell,  form- 
erly a  miller  in  Lyndeborough. 

LYNDEBOROUGH    MEN   IN  CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  LEE'S  COMPANY 
IN  THE  EXPEDITION  TO  RHODE  ISLAND. 

Capt.  William  Lee  Andrew  Fuller 
Qr.  Mr.  Sergt.  Adam  Johnson  Edward  Bevins 

Sergt.  Samuel  Hutchinson  Francis  Epps 

Corp.  Robert  Badger  Daniel  Gould 

Jonas  Kidder  Jesse  Lund 

John  Kidder  Aaron  Putnam 

Aaron  Lewis  Nicholas  Beasom 

Daniel  Cram  Timothy  Pearson 

Reuben  Spaulding  Nathan  Pearson 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  605 

PUTNAM.— The  earliest  ancestor  of  the  Putnam  family  in 
America  was  John  Putnam  of  Aston  Abbotts,  Co.  Bucks, 
England,  and  of  Salem,  Mass.,  in  New  England,  1634.  The 
stock  from  which  he  sprang  is  said  to  have  entered  Britain  at 
the  time  of  the  Norman  Conquest,  about  1066.*  Mr.  Eben 
Putnam  of  Salem,  the  author  of  an  extended  history  of  the 
distinguished  family,  thinks  that  it  contained  a  mixture  of 
Danish,  Saxon  and  Celtic  blood,  with  a  predominance  of  the 
Danish.  At  the  time  of  John  Putnam's  arrival  in  the  Bay 
State,  1635,  Mrs.  Hutchinson,  John  Wheelwright,  and  their 
sympathizers,  as  well  as  Roger  Williams  and  certain  others, 
were  making  matters  quite  lively  for  the  Boston  hierarchy. 
His  arrival  was  probably  too  recent  to  admit  of  very  active 
participation  on  either  side.  But  he  is  reputed  to  have  been 
"a  man  of  energy  and  great  natural  powers."  He  was  "a 
farmer  and  exeedingly  well  off  for  the  times.  He  wrote  a  fair 
hand,  as  deeds  on  record  show."  He  died  in  that  part  of 
Salem,  Mass.,  which  is  now  Danvers,  December  30,  1662.  He 
had  three  sons,  who  came  with  him  to  America  :  i.  THOMAS, 
grandsire  of  General  Israel,  famous  in  the  Revolution.  2. 
NATHANIEL,  baptized  at  Aston  Abbott's,  n  Oct.,  1619,  died  at 
Salem  Village,  23  July,  1700.  3.  JOHN,  baptized  at  Aston 
Abbott's,  Eng.,  27  May,  1727;  died  at  Salem  Village,  7  April, 
1710.  The  Putnam  family  besides  its  antiquity  was  among  the 
titled  and  landed  gentry  of  the  English  realm,  and  had  its 
recognized  coat  of  arms  and  crest.  John  is  believed  to  have 
been  the  progenitor  of  all  the  Putnams  of  America. 

<(  In  a  manuscript  dated  1733,  Edward  Putnam,"  one  of  his 
grandsons,  "then  79  years  of  age,  wrote  the  following  con- 
cerning the  family  :  " 

"  From  the  three  brothers  proceeded  twelve  males;  from  those  twelve, 
forty  males ;    from  those   forty,  eight-two  males.     In  respect  to  their 
situation  in  life.  I  can  say  with  the  Psalmist,  '  I  have  been  young  a 
now  am  old ;  yet  have  I  not  seen  the  righteous  forsaken,  nor  their  s 
begging  bread,'  except  of  God  who  provides  for  all ;  for  God  hath  giv 
to   the   generation   of  my  fathers   Agur's   portion,   neither  povert 
riches,  but  fed  them  with  food  convenient  for  them,  and  their 
have  been  able  to  help  others  in  their  need." 

The  Hon.  Perley  Putnam  of  Salem,  Mass.,  having  for  many 
years  collected  material  for  a  history  of  the  Putnam  family,  is 
said  to  have  stated,  "that  he  had  discovered  no  Putnam 

*  History  of  Putnam  Family. 


606  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

country  that  was  not  descended  from  (John   i)  and  one  of  his 
three  sons. 

NATHANIEL  PUTNAM.— Nathaniel,  the  second  son  of 
John,  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Putnams  of  Salem-Canada. 
These  were  also  descended  from  his  youngest  son,  Benjamin, 
and  his  grandson,  Nathaniel.  The  line  of  descent,  therefore, 
of  our  townsmen  is,  first,  John ;  then,  Nathaniel,  Benjamin, 
Nathaniel.  The  last  named  is  the  first  to  be  noted  in  the  Pro- 
prietors' Records  of  Salem-Canada. 

Nathaniel  Putnam  of  the  fourth  generation,  great  grandson 
of  John,  was  one  of  the  early  proprietors  of  Salem-Canada. 
At  the  drawing  of  Second  Division  Lots,  of  130  acres  each,  on 
the  21  of  June,  1737,  Deacon  Nathaniel  Putnam  drew  on  the 
right  of  Capt.  Samuel  King,  being  home  lot  No.  5,  the  two 
second  division  lots  numbered  5  and  80.  He  seems  to  have 
purchased  the  full  right  of  Capt.  King,  and  was  afterwards  an 
active  participant  in  the  interests  of  the  town  for  more  than 
twelve  years.  By  the  formation  of  township  No.  2,  he,  with 
his  sons,  were  made  citizens  of  that  town.  "  Only  a  few  of 
the  proprietors,  or  stockholders,  settled  in  Salem-Canada," 
wrote  Rev.  F.  G.  Clark,  "  but  they  were  interested  in  the  pros- 
perity of  the  town,  and  voted  money  freely  for  a  meeting-house, 
support  of  preaching,  and  building  of  roads."  "  Deacon 
Nathaniel  Putnam,  Joseph  Richardson,  Edward  Hardy,  and 
Timothy  Cummings  were  the  only  original  proprietors,  so  far 
as  can  be  found,  who  made  homes  for  themselves  in  the  town." 
He  built  the  first  saw-mill  in  the  old  town  of  Salem-Canada,  in 
1739.  This  was  a  great  convenience  at  the  time,  and  he  re- 
ceived a  consideration  of  ten  pounds  in  view  of  it,  for  which  an 
order  was  given  him,  September  15,  1741.  One  of  the  earliest 
roads  in  the  town  was,  also,  laid  out  from  the  saw-mill  of  Dea. 
Nathaniel  Putnam  to  the  meeting-house.  Traces  of  this  old 
road  are  still  discoverable  in  the  southern  part  of  L/yndeborough 
and  across  the  line  into  Wilton.  The  mill  stood  on  the  stream 
which  forms  Barnes',  or  later  Gaerwen's  Falls,  and  was  situated 
a  little  above  the  falls.  The  Putnams,  Dales  and  others,  who, 
at  a  later  day,  were  set  off  into  township  No.  2,  were  promi- 
nent helpers  in  building  the  first  meeting-house  in  the  old  town. 
Indications  are  not  wanting  to  show  that  these  interested  and 
worthy  citizens  of  the  old  town  were  coerced  into  signing  the 
the  petition  for  the  formation  of  the  new  township  No.  2.  They 


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607 


were  highly  prized  neighbors  always,  and  had  many  interests 
in  common  with  their  former  townsmen.  Nathaniel  Putnam 
was  advanced  in  years  when  the  new  town  was  constituted,  in 
1749.  He  was  born  in  Salem,  August  25,  1685.  He  married 
Hannah  Roberts,  June  4,  1709,  and  died  October  21,  1754.  He 
was  buried  in  Danvers,  Mass.  His  posterity  in  the  male  line 
consisted  of  four  sons,  viz. :  Jacob,  Archelaus,  Ephraim,  and 
Nathaniel. 


EPHRAIM  PUTNAM,— Ephraim  Putnam  was  the  third 
son  of  the  above-named  Nathaniel,  and  came  to  Salem-Canada 
with  his  father  and  brothers.  He  was  of  the  fifth  generation 
from  the  immigrant  John,  and  was  born  in  Salem  Village, 
February  10,  1719.  He  died  in  L,yndeborough,  November  13, 
1777,  at  the  age  of  58  years,  after  an  active  and  useful  life. 

He  married  Sarah,  a  twin  daughter  of  John  Cram,  the  first 
settler  in  Salem-Canada.  She  was  born  in  Woburn,  Mass., 
June  27,  1719,  and  came  with  her  father  into  the  new  settlement. 
She  died  October  14,  1777,,  aged  58  years. 

Ephraim  Putnam  and  wife  settled  on  second  division  lot  No. 
5,  near  his  brother,  Jacob,  not  far  from  the  intersection  of  the 
roads  near  the  north  cemetery  in  Wilton.  He  remained  with 
his  father  some  time ;  but  took  a  deed  of  the  home  farm  of 
John  Cram,  his  father-in-law,  February  23,  1753.  According  to 
Rev.  Frank  G.  Clark,  the  first  meeting  in  the  interests  of  a 
settled  ministry  "was  held  at  the  house  of  Ephraim  Putnam, 
September  3,  1756.*"  "The  home  of  Deacon  Ephraim  was 
destroyed  by  fire  a  short  time  after  his  death,  and  at  that  time 
the  family  records  were  destroyed.  One  of  his  sons  then  oc- 
cupied the  house.  The  children  (born  in  town)  were  all  bap- 
tized by  Rev.  Mr.  Wilkins,  of  Amherst,  and  births  recorded  by 
Jacob  Wellrnan,  society  clerk. "t 

The  traditions  of  Indian  incursions  in  this  town  seems  to  be 
treated  by  Rev.  Mr.  Clark  with  too  little  credit.  True,  none  of 
our  inhabitants,  so  far  as  known,  perished  by  the  hands  of  the 
red  men.  But  it  is  a  matter  of  history  and  of  fact,  that  a  gar- 
rison was  built  in  the  town  by  order  of  Major  Lovewell,  a 
brother  of  John  of  the  "  Pigwacket  fight."  This  fort  was 
standing  at  the  time  of  the  French  and  Indian  war,  in  1744- 
Not  only  was  there  a  fort  here,  but  John  Cram,  who  in  1708, 

*  See  pp.  278-279.  T  Hy.  of  Put.  Fam.  Ft.  IV,  p.  203. 


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did  fort  duty  at  Fort  William  and  Mary,  for  a  time,  had  com- 
mand of  it.  (See  p.  521.) 

Sarah,  the  wife  of  Ephraim  Putnam,  is  reported  on  one  occa- 
sion to  have  shown  remarkable  courage  and  strategy  in  holding 
the  fort  when  her  husband  was  absent.  The  enemy  were 
stealthily  approaching  but  were  betrayed  by  the  dogs,  which 
always  barked  more  furiously  on  scenting  the  Indians.  The 
single  guard  in  charge  was  too  timorous  to  be  of  much  service. 
But  Sarah  was  cool,  and  ordered  the  men  (as  though  present) 
to  their  posts,  at  different  stations.  The  man  and  her  own  boy, 
also,  answered  in  changed  tones  from, different  points,  and  then 
all  was  quiet.  This  gave  the  enemy  the  impression  that  the 
fort  had  more  defenders  than  they  knew,  and  prevented  an 
attack.  After  peace  came  about,  the  Indians  said  that  at  that 
time  they  thought  they  were  able  to  capture  the  fort,  but  were 
surprised  that  so  many  men  could  have  gotten  there  without 
their  knowledge,  and  gave  up  their  design,  for  fear  of  being 
defeated.  They  said,  also,  that  at  other  times  they  could  have 
captured  the  commander,  but  they  refrained,  thinking  they 
would  capture  the  whole  force  together. 

An  Indian  told  that  once  when  the  commander  turned  his 
horse  into  the  pasture,  he  lay  so  near  the  bars  that  the  horse 
could  have  stepped  on  him.  But  he  did  not  want  to  kill  the 
white  man  then,  because  they  had  planned  to  take  the  garrison 
and  kill  them  all  at  one  time. 

Ephraim  Putnam  was  one  of  the  original  signers  of  the  peti- 
tion for  the  incorporation  of  the  town  under  the  royal  charter, 
which  was  granted  April  23,  1764.  At  the  first  legal  town 
meeting,  he  and  Jacob  Wellman,  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the 
town,  were  elected  tything  men.  The  following  year  he  was 
chosen  town  treasurer,  an  office  to  which  he  was  elected  nine 
years  in  succession.  The  stormy  times  of  the  Revolution  were 
then  coming  on,  and  at  the  town  meeting,  October  31,  1774, 
it  was  voted,  "  To  purchase  a  town  stock  of  powder,  balls,  and 
flints,"  which  was  to  consist  of  "One  barrel  of  powder,  one- 
hundred  weight  of  lead,  and  five  dozen  flints;"  and  Deacon 
Ephraim  Putnam  was  chosen  ' '  a  committee  to  provide  the 
above  said  stock." 

He  bore  a  very  active  part  in  the  Revolution.  In  the  Revo- 
lutionary records  of  the  town  it  is  stated  that  in  1776,  "  Deacon 
Ephraim  Putnam  and  son  Ephraim  did  a  whole  turn ;  they 
hired  Nathaniel  Bachelor." 


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The  farm  on  which  he  lived  was  a  part  of  second  division 
lot  No.  41.  But  he  had  also  a  deed  from  Benjamin  L,ynde,  Jr., 
Esq.,  of  second  division  lot  No.  44,  which  was  burned  with  his 
dwelling.  These  were  the  lots  from  which  the  original  owners, 
L,ynde  and  Cram,  gave  the  spacious  grounds  for  the  first 
meeting-house,  which  at  that  time  was  built  near  the  middle 
of  the  township  of  Salem-Canada. 

When  the  first  meeting-house  grounds  were  given  up,  they 
reverted  to  the  possession  of  the  original  owner,  then  Deacon 
Ephraim  Putnam.  His  son  Ephraim  seems  to  have  succeeded 
him  in  occupying  that  part  of  the  farm  including  lot  No.  44 ; 
he  was  known  while  his  father  lived  as  Ephraim  Putnam,  Jr., 
and  afterwards  as  Ephraim  Putnam. 

EPHRAIM  PUTNAM,  JR.—  Ephraim  Putnam,  Jr.,  was  the 
son  of  Deacon  Ephraim,  and  was  himself  a  deacon.  He  was 
born  in  Dauvers,  Mass.,  June  15,  1744.  He  married  I^ucy 
Spaulding,  who  was  probably  a  sister  of  Capt.  L,evi  Spaulding, 
and  nearly  the  same  age.  He  seems  to  have  been  a  man  of 
unusual  influence  in  his  day.  (For  his  public  services  see  pp. 
J96,  257,  258,  260.)  He  had  three  sons  who  lived  in  what  is 
now  South  Lyndeborough  village.  The  places  where  these 
sons  lived  are  well  known.  But  where  he  fixed  his  own  dwell- 
ing seems  now  to  be  a  matter  of  conjecture.  The  likeliest 
place  is  that,  at  present,  the  old  dwelling  which  was  afterwards 
remodeled  by  another  Ephraim  Putnam  into  the  tavern,  now 
the  commodious  residence  of  Capt.  Andy  Holt.  He  was  sealer 
of  lumber  for  many  years,  an  office  which  implied  that  he  was 
either  a  manufacturer  of  it  or  had  some  practical  knowledge  of 
the  quality  and  worth  of  it.  The  lumber  and  shingle  mill,  now 
the  property  of  Mr.  E.  H.  Putnam  must  have  served  to  make 
lumber  in  his  day,  and  may  have  been  built  by  either  him  or 
his  father.  It  was  owned  a  few  years  after  his  death  by  his 
brother,  Ensign  David.  His  death  occurred  March  2,  1799. 
For  his  children  see  Genealogies. 

EPHRAIM  PUTNAM,  THIRD.— Ephraim  Putnam,  Third, 
had  his  home  on  the  grounds  now  occupied  by  Mr.  W.  P. 
Steele.  (Seep.  503.)  He  was  the  father  of  the  better-known 
Capt.  Eleazer.  He  received  the  rather  ironical  title  of  General 
Putnam  when  a  boy,  as  is  narrated  on  this  wise.  Having  seen 
some  tracks  in  the  snow  which  he  thought  were  bear  tracks,  he 


610  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

hastened  home  and  informed  his  father.  The  neighbors  were 
roused,  and  all  prepared  for  a  bear  hunt.  They  found  the  tracks 
to  be  only  crow  tracks.  Whether  piqued  or  amused  at  the  false 
alarm,  his  father  said  when  he  met  him,  "  Why,  General  Put- 
nam, not  to  know  crow  tracks  from  a  bear's  !  "  From  that  day 
on,  he  was  called  "  General  Putnam." 

None  of  his  children  lived  to  mature  age,  save  Capt.  Eleazar. 
For  his  record  see  sketch  of  the  Lafayette  Artillery  Company. 

DANIEL  PUTNAN,  ESQ.— Daniel  Putnam  was  the  son  of 
Ephraim  Putnam  and  Lucy  Spaulding,  and  was  born  September 
3,  1770.  He  married  Hannah  Johnson,  one  of  the  family 
which  gave  name  to  Johnson  Corner.  In  the  record  of  the 
town  meeting  for  March,  1798,  we  find  Daniel  Putnam  chosen 
sealer  of  lumber,  an  office  held  by  his  father  for  many  years 
previous,  and  one  to  which  he  himself  was  chosen,  till  he  com- 
pleted a  service  of  thirty  years.  In  1804,  he  is  styled  Lt. 
Daniel  Putnam,  and  from  1806  on  is  frequently  called  Capt. 
Daniel  Putnam,  (see  History  pages  219  and  220).  Later  in 
life  he  was  designated  as  Squire  Daniel,  or  Daniel  Putnam,  Esq. 

He  must  have  been  very  popular,  for  he  was  chosen  Repre- 
sentative to  the  General  Court  twelve  times  in  succession,  from 
1805  to  1816,  and  once  again  in  1820.  He  supplied  Col.  Perley 
Putnam  with  much  information,  and  wrote  concerning  the 
family  in  this  town  : 

"There  are  living  in  the  town  of  Lyndeborough  twenty-six  male 
descendants  of  Ephraim  Putnam,  including  his  son  Aaron.  Up  to  the 
present  date  (1834)  there  have  been  three  Deacon  Putnams,  and  six 
Capt.  Putnams  in  L,jndeborough."* 

Daniel  Putnam  owned  a  saw-mill,  undoubtedly  that  which 
now  belongs  to  Mr.  E.  H.  Putnam.  He  was  a  carpenter  by 
trade  and  his  assistance  and  advice  were  sought  in  the  repair- 
ing and  erecting  of  public  buildings  in  the  town.  He  was 
prominent  in  the  Universalist  movement  and  purposed  erecting 
a  parsonage  for  the  accommodation  of  the  Universalist  minister, 
Mr.  Hussey.  The  lot  on  which  he  set  out  to  build  was  after- 
wards sold  to  his  grandsons,  Charles  and  William  Richardson, 
who  erected  on  it  the  house  in  which  Mrs.  Clough  of  Lynn, 
Mass.,  has  now  a  summer  home. 

Daniel  Putnam,  Esq.,  departed  this  life  in  December,  twelfth 
day,  1841,  aged  71  years.  His  wife  Hannah  passed  away  in 
1872,  aged  96  years.  For  his  children,  see  Genealogies. 

*  See  Putnam  Family,  part  IV,  p.  204. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  611 

JOHN  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Lucy  (Spaulding) 
Putnam,  lived  with  his  sister  Betsey,  on  the  ground  now  oc- 
cupied by  the  house  of  Mr.  Walter  Tarbell.  Solomon  Cram, 
who  built  the  blacksmith  shop  in  the  village,  was  their  nephew, 
and  took  care  of  them  in  their  last  days,  and  received  their 
estate  in  reward  for  his  services.  John  Putnam  seems  to  have 
owned  the  land  which  is  now  the  property  of  Mr.  Joseph  A. 
Johnson,  south  of  the  road,  as  well  as  Mr.  Tarbell's  lot.  (See 

P-  505-) 

Of  the  daughter  Esther,  we  have  but  the  record  of  her  birth. 

But  Sarah  Putnam,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Lucy  (Spauld- 
ing) Putnam,  married  David  Cram,  Jr.,  and  they  removed  to 
the  state  of  Vermont.  Solomon,  above-named,  was  their  son. 

CAPTAIN  ISRAEL  PUTNAM.— Captain  Israel  Putnam 
was  the  son  of  Squire  Daniel  Putnam.  (See  Genealogies.) 
He  owned  and  operated  the  saw-mill  which  now  belongs  to 
Mr.  Edwin  H.  Putnam.  He  built  an  addition  to  it.  (See  pp. 
340  and  522.)  He  served  the  town  three  terms  as  representa- 
tive (See  p.  258)  and  was  prominent  in  middle  life,  in  the 
affairs  of  the  town.  He  held  many  important  offices,  and 
served  many  years  as  surveyor  of  lumber.  He  had  four  sons, 
William  R.,  Daniel,  Israel  and  Sumner ;  and  also  four  daugh- 
ters, Mary  Angeline  and  Hannah  by  first  wife,  and  Abby  and 
Letitia  by  the  second.  Of  his  sons,  two  won  more  than  ordi- 
nary distinction  ;  one  in  the  realm  of  business,  and  another  in 
literature  and  pedagogy.  Some  notices  of  these  follow. 

WILLIAM  R.  PUTNAM.—  [The  following  notice  is  taken 
from  the  Woburn  News  of  Dec.  7,  1901.] 

"William  R.  Putnam,  for  three  score  years  an  honored  citizen  of 
Woburn,  died  at  his  home  on  Union  Street,  Monday  afternoon,  Dec.  2, 
aged  80  years.  .  .  .  Mr.  Putnam  was  born  in  Lyndeborough,  N.  H., 
in  1821,  and  was  the  son  of  Israel  and  Ruth  Putnam.  The  public  schools 
of  his  native  town  furnished  educational  advantages  of  a  limited  extent, 
as,  early  in  life  he  was  forced  to  begin  work.  When  21  years  of  age  he 
came  to  Woburn  and  secured  employment  with  Mr.  Sheffy,  then  a 
patent  leather  manufacturer  in  Wilmington.  Later  he  was  similarly 
employed  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  which  place  was  headquarters  for  this 
branch  of  industry.  After  four  years  in  Newark,  he  was  employed  two 
years  in  Philadelphia,  where  he  was  superintendent  of  a  patent  leather 
factory.  He  came  back  to  Woburn  in  1852  and  entered  the  firm  of  S. 
O.  Pollard  &  Co.,  doing  business  on  Easton  Avenue.  The  firm  con- 
ducted a  lucrative  business  for  20  years,  when  Mr.  Putnam  severed  his 
connection  and  retired  from  active  business.  Since  theli  he  has  busied 


612  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

himself  with  his  real  estate  business.  Mr.  Putnam  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  selectmen  in  1874-1875,  and  served  on  the  cemetery  committee 
and  as  superintendent  of  the  cemetery  for  several  years.  He  might 
have  filled  public  office  on  many  occasions  if  his  inclinations  had  ac- 
corded with  the  wishes  of  his  fellow-citizens.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneer 
organizers  of  the  Co-operative  Bank  and  a  member  of  its  first  board  of 
directors.  Woburn  loses,  in  his  death,  one  of  its  most  upright  citizens, 
a  man  of  quiet,  unobtrusive  nature,  of  courtly  and  kindly  manner,  and 
of  cleanly  life.  His  widow  and  one  granddaughter,  Miss  Christine 
Kelley,  survive  him.  The  funeral  was  held  Thursday,  Dec.  5,  at  2  p. 
m.,  from  the  First  church  parlor,  Rev.  Dr.  March  officiating." 

This  record  is  believed  to  contain  no  word  of  undue  praise. 
The  Baptist  church  has  several  times  profited  by  and  rejoiced 
over  his  generous  benefactions.  (See  p.  350).  He  made 
valuable  personal  gifts  of  books  to  the  L,yndeborough  public 
library.  (See  p.  388.)  He  invested  a  very  generous  sum  out 
of  the  residue  of  the  Jotham  Hildreth  estate,  of  which  he  was 
trustee,  the  interest  of  which  should  be  used  to  assist  the 
worthy,  unfortunate  poor  of  the  town.  Such  men  are  truly  an 
honor  to  their  native  town. 

DANIEL  PUTNAM,  A.M.,  LL.D.—  "  Daniel  Putnam  was 
born  in  I/yndeborough,  January  8,  1824.  The  early  years 
of  his  life  were  spent  on  a  farm,  in  a  lumber  mill,  and  in  a 
carpenter's  shop.  His  early  education  was  such  as  a  New 
England  district  school  gave  at  that  period.  After  his  tenth  or 
twelfth  year  he  attended  school  only  in  the  winter  season. 
This  was  the  only  schooling  he  received  until  twenty  years  of 
age.  During  the  latter  part  of  this  early  period  he  received 
much  advantage  from  a  kind  of  lyceum,  which  was  organized 
in  many  of  the  school  districts  of  the  country.  In  this  society 
he  gained  considerable  practice  in  writing,  speaking,  and  de- 
bating, and  cultivated  a  love  for  reading.  This  was  his  first 
step  above  the  ordinary  work  of  the  common  district  school, 
and  opened  the  way  for  the  broader  education  and  wider 
culture  which  were  gained  in  later  years. 

By  manual  labor  and  by  teaching  school  in  the  winter  months 
he  earned  the  means  necessary  to  fit  himself  for  college.  His 
preparatory  course  was  taken  in  an  academy  at  New  Hampton, 
N.  H.  From  this  place  he  went  to  Dartmouth  College,  from 
which  he  graduated  with  the  class  of  1851.  After  graduation 
he  taught  for  a  time  in  the  school  at  New  Hampton,  and  later 
for  a  year  in  Vermont. 

Professor  Putnam  came  to  Michigan  in  the  summer  of  1854, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  613 

and  held  the  professorship  of  the  Latin  language  and  literature 
in  Kalamazoo  College  for  four  or  five  years.  He  left  the  college 
to  take  charge  of  the  public  schools  of  the  city  of  Kalamazoo.  In 
this  field  of  labor  he  showed  good  executive  ability  and  skill  in 
the  work  of  organization.  In  1865  he  returned  to  the  college  and 
labored  two  or  three  years  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  John  M. 
Gregory.  On  the  resignation  of  President  Gregory  he  was  act- 
ing executive  of  the  college  for  one  year.  In  1867  he  was 
elected  superintendent  of  the  schools  of  Kalamazoo  county.  He 
resigned  this  position  to  accept  a  professorship  in  the  normal 
school,  entering  upon  his  duties  at  the  opening  of  the  school 
year,  1868-9.  His  connection  with  the  school  has  extended 
over  a  period  of  thirty  years.  During  three  years  he  was  acting 
principal  of  the  institution. 

Professor  Putnam  served  two  years  as  alderman  and  two  years 
as  mayor  of  the  city  of  Ypsilanti,  and  has  always  manifested  a 
deep  interest  in  the  welfare  and  prosperity  of  the  community  in 
which  he  has  had  his  home.  .  .  .  For  more  than  fifty  years 
he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  active 
in  the  work  of  the  denomination.  ...  As  a  man,  he  is 
unassuming  and  retiring  in  his  character,  but  positive  in  his 
opinions  and  firm  in  his  convictions  of  duty  in  all  the  rela- 
tions of  life.  As  a  teacher,  he  appeals  to  a  student's  sense  of 
honor,  and  seeks  to  develop  the  higher  and  nobler  elements  of  his 
character,  seeks  to  make  his  pupils  men  and  women  of  the  best 
kind,  rather  than  simply  scholars  and  teachers.  Many  a  former 
normal  student,  now  at  work  in  the  schools  of  the  state,  declares 
that  the  calm  serenity  of  Professor  Putnam's  life  and  character 
goes  with  him  as  an  inspiration  in  all  his  work.  His  deeds  are 
as  lighthouses,  '  they  do  not  ring  bells  or  fire  cannon  to  call  at- 
tention to  their  shining  —  they  just  shine.' 

As  an  indication  of  the  high  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  as  a 
scholar,  he  received  in  1897,  the  honorary  degree  of  1,1,. D.  from 
the  University  of  Michigan."  (From  sketch  of  his  life  given  by 
a  friend  in  the  History  of  Michigan  State  Normal  School,  pp. 
150-152.) 

We  close  this  sketch  by  naming  some  of  his  published  works : 
' '  Sunbeams  through  the  Clouds  ' '  (a  little  manual  for  the  special 
use  of  inmates  of  asylums  for  the  insane),  in  1871  ;  "A  Geog- 
raphy of  Michigan,"  1877,  (published  with  Colton's  geogra- 
phy) ;  "A  Sketch  of  Michigan  State  Teachers'  Association," 
1877,  (published  by  the  association);  "  Outline  of  the  Theory 


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and  Art  of  Teaching,"  1883;  "Manual  of  Pedagogics,"  1895; 
"  History  of  the  State  Normal  School,"  1899.  (For  his  family 
see  Genealogies.) 

REV.  JOHN  RAND  was  the  pulpit  supply  of  the  people  of 
L,yndeborough  for  some  months  before  being  invited  to  become 
their  pastor.  They  gave  him  the  call  Sept.  27,  1756,  but  he  did 
not  accept  it  until  the  next  year.  The  church  was  organized 
Dec.  5,  1757,  with  about  twenty  members,  eight  of  whom  were 
males.  Two  days  after  the  organization  of  the  church,  Dec.  7, 
Mr.  Rand  was  ordained  to  the  pastorate  of  it,  as  the  first  Con- 
gregational minister  in  L,yndeborough.  From  the  proprietors  of 
the  town  he  received  ^40,  as  an  encouragement  to  settle  among 
the  people.  This  sum  was  payable  in  three  equal  annual  instal- 
ments, and  beside  this  an  annual  salary  of  .£40  was  given  him, 
and  the  society  were  "to  provide  a  certain  amount  of  wood, 
and  one  shilling  each  for  each  soul  in  town,  and  to  increase  the 
number  of  shillings  according  to  the  increase  in  the  number  of 
souls." 

Mr.  Rand  lived  the  last  part  of  his  pastorate  on  the  place  now 
owned  by  Mrs.  Charles  R.  Boutwell.  But  his  term  of  service 
was  very  brief  for  those  days,  and  after  four  years  and  four 
months,  April  8,  1762,  he  was  dismissed.  Subsequent  to  his 
leaving  L,yndeborough,  he  lived  in  Goffstown  and  Bedford,  but 
was  never  afterward  settled  as  pastor.  He  was  justice  of  the 
peace  under  George  III.  He  removed  to  Bedford  in  1778.  In 
1783  we  find  his  name  in  the  Town  Papers  of  N.  H.  as  town 
clerk  in  Bedford,  and  also  one  of  the  selectmen.* 

Of  the  children  of  Rev.  John  Rand  one  or  two  facts  of  interest 
may  here  be  added  :  — 

Nehemiah,  who  was  born  May  22,  1776,  and  died  in  Newport, 
N.  H.,  January,  1869,  married  in  New  Boston,  Mary,  a  lineal 
descendant  of  Gen.  Putnam.  They  had  nine  children,  two  of 
whom,  Edgar  and  Betsey,  lived  in  I,yndeborough,  for  whom  see 
genealogies  of  Rand  and  Dutton. 

The  daughter,  Mary  Putnam  Rand,  was  born  in  New  Boston, 
N.  H.,  in  1811.  In  1830  she  united  with  the  church,  graduated 
at  the  New  Hampton  Seminary,  and  was  sent  to  Illinois  as  a 
teacher,  and  is  said  to  have  been  "one  of  the  best  known 
women  who  ever  lived  in  Illinois.  She  was  a  Christian  lady 
and  a  renowned  educator."  She  became  the  wife  of  the  Rev. 
J.  G.  L,emen,  and  they  were  the  founders  and  managers  of  the 

*Vol.  XI.,  p.  185. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  615 

"Christian  Home  Orphanage"  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  which 
is  now  conducted  by  their  son,  H.  R.  Icemen.* 

NEHEMIAH  RAND,  ESQ.—  Nehemiah  Rand  was  the 
ninth  child  of  Jonathan  and  Mellecent  (Bstabrook)  Rand,  of 
Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  and  a  brother  of  Rev.  John  Rand. 
Following  his  father's  occupation,  he  was  a  hatter  by  trade, 
and  clearly  seems  to  have  been  in  affluent  worldly  circum- 
stances. He  was  a  corporal  in  Brigden's  company  in  1757. 
On  the  4th  of  April,  1766,  he  bought  a  tract  of  land  in  Lynde- 
borough,  adjoining  land  owned  by  his  brother.  The  place 
which  he  owned  is  now  the  property  of  Mr.  William  Clark, 
whose  wife,  Abby  Kimball  Rand,  is  a  great  grandchild  of 
Nehemiah  Rand,  Esq.  On  this  place  he  built  a  saw-mill,  and 
here,  at  a  later  day,  he  built  for  himself  a  home.  He  was  liv- 
ing in  his  native  town  when  the  War  of  the  Revolution  broke 
out.  When  the  famous  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  was  fought,  he 
owned  land  on  Bunker  Hill.  Although  the  Americans  made 
a  splendid  and  destructive  fight,  they  were  finally  driven  out  of 
their  entrenchments  and  compelled  to  retreat.  The  British 
held  possession  of  the  battle-ground  and  their  wrath  found  vent 
in  the  destruction  of  the  town,  which  they  wantonly  burned. 
In  the  conflagration,  Nehemiah  Rand's  two  dwelling-houses 
and  hat-shop  were  destroyed.  Then,  with  his  family,  he  fled 
for  refuge  to  our  town  in  the  wilderness,  where  he  had  already 
a  possession,  and  where  he  fixed  his  permanent  home.  His 
family  consisted  of  his  wife  and  two  daughters,  and  "a  lad 
named  Nehemiah  Frost,  who  had  lived  with  him  from  early 
childhood."  He  became  a  prosperous  and  influential  citizen  of 
lyyndeborough,  held  a  prominent  place  among  its  proprietors, 
was  appointed  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  was  honored  by  being 
chosen  representative  to  the  Legislature,  or  General  Court  of 
the  State  of  New  Hampshire  for  more  than  a  single  term.  As 
one  of  the  old  L,yndeborough  proprietors,  he  was  especially 
serviceable  to  the  corporation  ;  for  he  was  one  of  the  committee 
appointed  to  sell  the  common  and  undivided  lands  of  Lynde- 
borough  and  Greenfield,  to  prosecute  trespassers  and  to  bring 
the  affairs  of  the  old  ' '  propriety  "  to  a  successful  close,  and  on 
that  business  was  very  efficient.  He  was  a  member  of  that 
committee  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  July  10, 
1794.  He  was  represented  in  subsequent  meetings  of  the  pro- 

*Lemen  Family  History. 


616  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

prietors  by  John  Shepherd,  Esq. ,  of  Amherst,  whom  he  chose 
to  be  the  executor  of  his  last  will  and  testament. 

Nehemiah  Rand,  Esq.,  was  thrice  married.  He  married 
first,  November  24,  1757,  Mary  Rand,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Sarah  (Carter)  Rand,  who  was  born  February  26,  1733  ;  second, 
May  27,  1774,  Mary,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  Prentice,  of 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  widow  of  Doctor  James  Frost  of 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  who  died  July  2,  1770,  aged  38.  She  died 
at  Lyndeborough,  October  20,  1787,  in  the  49th  year  of  her 
age;  third,  was  Margaret,  daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  Prentice, 
and  sister  of  his  second  wife,  who  was  married  October  21, 
1791.  She  died  at  the  home  of  Nehemiah  Frost  in  Temple. 
Five  children  of  Nehemiah  Rand,  Esq.,  lived  to  a  mature  age  ; 
namely,  Mary,  who  married  Richard  Batten,  Jr. ;  Elizabeth, 
who  married  Joseph  Epps ;  Irene,  who  married  Nehemiah 
Frost ;  Nehemiah,  who  married  Sarah  Batten  ;  and  Margaret, 
who  married  Deacon  John  Clark.  For  more  respecting  the 
families  see  genealogy  of  each  family  above  mentioned. 

CAPTAIN  I/EVI  SPAULDING.— "  The  Spaulding  Me- 
morial," compiled  by  Rev.  Samuel  Jones  Spalding,  who  was 
born  in  I/yndeborough,  December  n,  1820,  furnishes  many  of 
the  facts  of  the  life  of  Captain  L,evi  Spaulding.  Page  48  of 
that  work  gives  a  brief  sketch  of  his  life,  under  number  1043. 
He  was  born  in  Nottingham  West  (now  Hudson),  N.  H.,  Octo- 
ber 23,  1737,  and  died  in  Plainfield,  Otsego  Co.,  N.  Y.,  March 
i,  1825.  To  the  latter  place  he  had  removed  from  Lynde- 
borough  about  the  year  1800.  He  was  the  son  of  Edward  and 
Elizabeth  Spaulding,  who  came  to  I^yndeborough  in  1766,  and 
bought  the  second  division  lots  numbered  113  and  122.  Two 
brothers  of  Edward  are  also  said  to  have  come  to  I/yndeborough, 
namely,  Reuben  and  Stephen.  "The  Spaulding  Memorial," 
however,  makes  no  mention  of  these  as  citizens  of  I/ynde- 
borough.  It  is  probable  that  L,evi  came  here  about  the  same 
time  as  his  parents ;  and  very  soon  after  that  the  town  records 
show  that  he  became  a  prominent  citizen.  He  married  first, 
Anna  Burns;  second,  Mrs.  L,ois  Goodridge,  of  Lyndeborough, 
December  30,  1778.  In  1767,  soon  after  he  came  into  town,  he 
was  selected  as  one  of  a  committee  of  five  persons  to  forward 
the  important  work  of  "  completing  the  meeting-house."  From 
that  time  forward,  his  name  frequently  occurs  in  our  town  rec- 
ords, an  evidence  of  his  active  interest  in  town  affairs. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  617 

At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  L,evi  Spauld- 
ing  recruited  a  company  of  sixty  men,  with  whom  he  marched 
as  captain,  April  23,  1775,  four  days  after  the  famous  fight  and 
flight  from  Concord  and  L,exington.  Thomas  Boffee  was  his 
2nd  lieutenant,  William  I,ee  and  James  Hutchinson  were  ser- 
geants, and  twenty-three  others  of  his  neighbors  and  fellow- 
townsmen  were  in  the  ranks.  A  list  of  these  is  here  appended.* 

Corporal  Benjamin  Dike  Nathaniel  Batchelder 

Corporal  Samuel  Hutchinson  Phineas  Barker 

Fifer  Jacob  Button  Edward  Bevins 

James  Campbell  Joseph  Ellinwood 

Nehemiah  Hutchinson  Samuel  McMaster 

John  Johnson  Andrew  Thompson 

Jesse  I/und  Jacob  Wellmant 

John  Rowe  Elisha  Wilkins 

Ephraim   Smith  Josiah  Woodbury 

Isaac  Carkin  Timothy  Mclntire 

David  Carltont  Daniel  Cram 
Ezra  Dutton 

Captain  Spaulding's  company  was  number  three,  in  the 
Third  Regiment  of  N.  H.  Troops,  commanded  by  Col.  James 
Reed.  The  adjutant  general  of  New  Hampshire,  in  his  report 
for  1866,  Vol.  2,  page  270,  states,  that  "the  New  Hampshire 
troops,"  at  Bunker  Hill,  "  took  their  position  at  the  rail  fence, 
betwixt  the  redoubt  and  the  Mystic  River.  They  immediately 
threw  up  a  sort  of  breastwork  of  stone  across  the  beach  to  the 
river,  and  continued  the  rail  fence  down  to  this  stone  wall  or 
breastwork.  This  wall  served  a  most  excellent  purpose,  as  the 
sharp-shooters  behind  it  could  take  the  most  deadly  aim  at  the 
advancing  foe  ;  and  it  is  a  well-established  fact  that  the  British 
troops  in  front  of  this  wall  were  almost  completely  annihilated." 

Captain  Spaulding's  company  was  under  fire  in  that  battle, 
and  doubtless  had  its  share  of  the  fatal  work  there  accomplished. 
Two  of  his  men  suffered  as  indicated  in  the  preceding  note,  suf- 
fusing the  soil  with  their  blood.  The  captain  was  not  only  at 
Bunker  Hill,  but  during  the  following  winter  went  to  Canada, 
and  according  to  our  town  records,  "  Concluded  the  Same  Back 
to  Trenton."  Seven  of  our  townsmen  accompanied  him  on  that 
expedition,  whose  names  are  preserved.  He  was  also  "  at  Val- 
ley Forge  during  the  terrible  suffering  in  the  winter  of  1777  and 
1778.  He  was  afterwards  transferred,  and  came  under  the  im- 
mediate command  of  Gen.  Washington.  He  served  through  the 

*Rev.  Rolls  I,  pp.  87-89.         tSee  p.  203.  JSee  p.  177. 


618  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

war,  and  was  present  at  the  surrender  of  L,ord  Cornwallis  at 
Yorktown.  He  received  an  honorable  discharge  from  the  War 
Department,  and  drew  a  captain's  pension  as  long  as  he  lived."* 

Captain  Spaulding's  family  consisted  of  six  sons  and  five 
daughters.  The  names  of  his  children  were :  Betsey,  Olive, 
Edward,  George,  Martha,  Esther,  I^evi,  John,  Sewell,  I/ois 
Goodrich  and  Benjamin  Goodrich. 

After  the  close  of  the  war,  he  continued  to  take  an  active  in- 
terest in  town  matters,  and  was  honored  with  the  various  offices 
and  responsibilities  which  his  fellow  citizens  could  confer.  He 
was  representative  to  the  legislature  from  1784  to  1786,  inclu- 
sive ;  and  the  Journal  of  the  I/egislature  and  other  State  papers 
testify  to  his  activity  in  the  heroic  days  of  our  country's  history, 
and  his  name  holds  a  most  honored  place  in  the  annals  of  our 
town . 

Few,  if  any,  of  his  descendants  now  reside  in  I/yndeborough, 
though  most  of  his  children  were  born  here.  Edward  Spauld- 
ing,  his  eldest  son,  was  born  in  L,yndeborough,  Nov.  19,  1764, 
and  died  in  Alexander,  Genesse  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  14,  1845.  At 
an  early  day,  he  removed  to  Plainfield,  Otsego  Co.,  N.  Y.; 
thence  to  Summer  Hill,  Cayuga  Co.,  N.  Y.,  and  thence  to 
Alexander,  above  mentioned,  where  both  he  and  his  wife  died. 
He  was  a  farmer.  He  married  Mehitabel,  the  daughter  of 
Rev.  Sewall  Goodrich  of  L,yndeborough,  Oct.  30,  1788.  She 
was  born  Sept.  25,  1770,  and  died  July  31,  1838.  Four  of 
their  children  were  born  in  Lyndeborough. 

EIvBRIDGE  GERRY,  the  youngest,  became  one  of  the  fam- 
ous men  of  his  time  as  a  lawyer  and  financier.  He  was  born  at 
Summer  Hill,  Cayuga  Co.  N.  Y.,  Feb.  24,  1809.  He  studied 
and  practised  law  at  Batavia  and  Attica.  In  1834  he  removed 
to  Buffalo,  and  there  he  was  soon  chosen  to  fill  important  offices. 
In  1847  he  was  elected  mayor  of  Buffalo.  He  was  elected  mem- 
ber of  Congress  in  1848,  and  again  to  the  same  office  in  1858 
and  1860.  He  served  four  years  on  the  committee  of  Ways  and 
Means,  and  was  the  author  of  the  I^egal  Tender  Act,  passed 
during  the  days  of  the  Rebellion. 

In  a  letter  addressed  to  him  under  date  of  Aug.  3,  1869,  the 
Hon.  Charles  Sumner  wrote,  "  In  all  our  early  financial  trials, 
while  the  war  was  most  menacing,  you  held  a  position  of  great 
trust,  giving  you  opportunity  and  knowledge.  The  first  you 

*Spaulding  Memorial,  p.  88. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCHES  619 

used  at  the  time  most  patriotically,  and  the  second  you  use  now 
(in  preparing  a  financial  history  of  the  war)  for  the  instruction  of 
the  country." 

Mr.  Spalding  was  not  only  an  eminent  lawyer,  but  was  also  a 
successful  banker  in  Buffalo,  who  by  his  talents,  industry  and 
economy,  amassed  an  ample  fortune. 

REV.  SAMUEL  JONES  SPALDING.  —  Of  still  another 
branch  of  the  Spalding  family  was  the  author  of  the  "  Spauld- 
ing  Memorial."  The  Rev.  Samuel  Jones  Spalding  was  the  son 
of  Abijah  Spalding,  and  was  born  in  Lyndeborough,  Dec.  n, 
1820.  In  1824  his  parents  removed  to  Nashua,  where  he  pre- 
pared for  college  under  the  instruction  of  David  Crosby,  Esq. 
He  entered  Dartmouth  College  in  1838,  graduating  in  1842,  and 
entering  Andover  Theological  Seminary  that  year,  graduated  in 
1845.  He  was  pastor  of  the  Whitefield  Congregational  Church 
in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  for  many  years.  On  leave  of  absence 
from  his  people,  he  was  commissioned  chaplain  of  the  48th  Mass. 
Regiment,  which  served  under  Major  General  Anger,  in  the 
Army  of  the  Gulf.  This  regiment  was  "  at  the  siege  of  Port 
Hudson,  being  actively  engaged  in  the  first  and  second  assaults 
on  that  stronghold,  May  27  and  June  14,  and  also  in  the  fight 
at  Donaldson ville,  July  13.  Was  mustered  out  Aug.  30,  1863."* 

Mr.  Spalding  is  a  member  of  ' '  The  New  England  Historic- 
Genealogical  Society,"  and  also  corresponding  member  of  the 
"State  Historical  Society  of  Wisconsin."  His  life  and  army 
service  are  creditable  alike  to  his  kindred  and  his  native  town. 

Memorial,  pp.  457,  458. 


CHAPTER  XXXIV. 

PROFESSIONAL  MEN,  TRADESMEN,  AUTHORS  AND 

GRADUATES. 


MINISTERS. 

The  list  of  natives  of  lyyndeborough  who  became  ministers 
here  given  is  in  the  order  arranged  by  the  secretary  or  librarian 
of  The  New  Hampshire  Historical  Society,  Concord,  N.  H. 
The  record  is  partly  that  printed  in  the  pamphlet,  "Salem- 
Canada-L,yndeborough,  "  by  Rev.  F.  G.  Clark. 

James  Bout  well.     (See  Genealogies.) 

William  Thurston  Boutwell.     (See  Genealogies.) 

David  Burroughs  was  born  Aug.  n,  1810.  For  a  brief  sketch 
see  page  343.  He  was  the  son  of  Asa  and  Sarah  (Butler)  Bur- 
roughs. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Clark.  (See  Genealogies  and  a  mention 
of  him  on  page  417.) 

William  Clark,  '^brother  of  Benjamin  F.     (See  Genealogies.) 

Frank  Gray  Clark.     (See  Genealogies.) 

David  P.  French,  born  Feb.  i,  1817,  was  the  son  of  Isaac  P. 
and  Clarissa  (Barnes)  French.  He  became  a  Baptist,  and  for 
brief  notice  of  him,  see  page  343  of  this  history.  He  had  sev- 
eral pastorates,  both  in  this  state  and  in  Illinois,  and  died  in 
Nashville,  Illinois,  April  29,  1886. 

Kben  E.  Gardner,  born  1807,  was  brought  up  from  boyhood 
by  David  Putnam,  deacon  of  the  Baptist  Church.  Mr.  Gardner 
is  reported  to  have  preached  in  Trumansburg,  N.  Y. 

Ethan  Allen  Hadley  was  born  Nov.  13,  1809.  He  was  the 
son  of  Joshua  an'd  Betsey  (Williams)  Hadley  ;  preached  in 
Jasper,  N.  Y.,  and  died  in  Dix,  N.  Y.,  Apr.  24,  1867. 

William,  son  of  Ebenezer  Hutchinson,  was  born  April  4, 
1794,  and  died  April  20,  1842.  He  preached  in  Plainfield,  and 
other  places  in  New  Hampshire. 

John  Jones,  son  of  Joseph  and  Anna  (Richardson)  Jones,  was 
born  September  8,  1812,  and  was  graduated  from  Dartmouth  in 
1834.  He  taught  one  year  at  Gloucester,  Mass.,  and  gradu- 
ated at  Andover  in  1838.  He  was  ordained  at  Chittenden,  Vt., 
July  i,  1841,  and  was  pastor  till  1844.  He  was  agent  of  the 


PROFESSIONAL  MEN  621 

New  Hampshire  Bible  Society  from  1844  to  1846  ;  teacher  at 
Sandusky,  O.,  1848  to  1852  ;  acting  pastor  at  Danville,  Ind., 
and  Earlville,  111.,  1853  to  1855;  agent  of  American  Bible  Society, 
Illinois,  1855  to  1862.  Resided  at  Meriden,  111.,  and  Colorado 
Springs,  where  he  died  in  August,  1889. 

James  Harvey  Merrill,  son  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth 
(Carpenter)  Merrill,  was  born  October  16,  1814,  and  died  Octo- 
ber 28,  1886.  He  was  pastor  at  Montague  and  Andover,  Mass. 

Daniel  Putnam,  A.M.,  1,1,.  D.  Though  not  an  ordained 
minister,  he  is  a  sound  and  acceptable  preacher  of  Christ,  and 
frequently  assists  his  ministerial  brethren  by  supplying  their 
pulpits  for  them.  (See  Biographical  Sketches.) 

Samuel  Jones  Spalding,  D.D.,  born  December  11,^1820,  long 
a  pastor  at  Newburyport,  Mass.  Mr.  Spalding  was  chaplain 
in  the  Civil  War,  and  was  the  compiler  of  the  History  of  the 
Spalding  Family.  He  was  accounted  a  very  able  and  excel- 
lent minister. 

Charles  Whiting  was  pastor  at  Wilton  seven  years,  and  died 
at  Fayetteville,  Vt.,  May  5,  1855.  (See  Genealogies.) 

Benjamin  Asbury  Goodridge  was  born  in  lyyndeborough 
October  5,  1857.  He  fitted  for  college  at  Tilton  Seminary,  and 
graduated  at  Boston  University  in  1881.  He  was  ordained  and 
settled  over  the  Unitarian  Church  at  Harvard,  Mass.,  also 
served  as  pastor  at  Christ  Church,  Dorchester,  Mass.,  and  now 
at  Unity  Church,  Santa  Barbara,  California.  He  has  taught 
extensively,  and  was  teacher  of  Greek  and  Latin  at  Lassell 
Seminary  for  two  years.  He  is  a  great  grandson  of  Rev. 
Sewall  Goodridge,  the  pastor  of  Lyndeborough  Congregational 
Church  for  about  forty  years. 

Willard  Harvey  Perham,  son  of  Harvey  and  Abby  R.  (Par- 
ker) Perham,  was  born  September  20,  1867.  He  studied  at  the 
Moody  Bible  Institute,  Chicago,  about  a  year,  and  finished  his 
studies  at  the  Northwestern  Bible  and  Missionary  Training 
School,  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  graduating  in  May,  1905.  He 
settled  at  Auburn,  Indiana,  where  he  was  ordained  September 
i,  1905,  and  is  pastor  of  the  Baptist  Church. 

Students  for  the  ministry  who  died  before  completing  their 
studies  : 

Ira  Houston  Woodward,  born  June  15,  1811.  He  was  the 
son  of  Eleazer  and  Rachel  (Houston)  Woodward.  Both  he 
and  Benjamin  F.  Clark  went  to  East  Tennessee  to  some  school 


622  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

in  that  state.     But  Mr.   Woodward  died  in  June,  1830,  in  the 
1 9th  year  of  his  age. 

Jason,  son  of  Deacon  David  and  Tryphena  (Butler)  Putnam, 
was  born  November  25,  1817.  He  attended  the  Hancock 
Academy,  where,  in  April,  1839,  he  assisted  in  forming  "a 
society  for  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  library  in  connection 
with  the  lyiterary  and  Scientific  Institution."  *  He  afterwards 
acted  as  private  teacher  in  Virginia.  He  was  said  to  be  a 
young  man  of  great  promise,  but  died,  May  18,  1841,  before 
completing  his  ministerial  studies,  in  the  24th  year  of  his  age. 

PHYSICIANS.        * 

Physicians  who  practiced  in  town  and  natives  of  Lynde- 
borough  who  became  physicians  are  as  follows : 

Dr. "Benjamin  Jones     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Daniel  Wardwell 

Dr.  Israel  Herrick     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Nathan  Jones 

Dr.  Moses  Atwood     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Aaron  H.  Atwood     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  William  A.  Jones     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  William  Butler     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Jacob  Butler    (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Nehemiah  Rand 

Dr.  Benjamin  F.  Hadley 

Dr.  Willard  Parker     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Charles  P.  French     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Hervey  G.  Mclntire     (See   Genealogies) 

Dr.  E.  J.  Donnell 

Dr.    Wm.  T.  Donnell 

Dr.   Alfred  F.  Holt     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  J.  Newton  Butler     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Stephen  W.  Goodrich     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  J.  Milton  Rand 

Dr.  Henry  E.  Spalding     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Henry  W.  Boutwell     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Herbert  B.  Mclntire     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  George  B.  French 

Dr.  George  W.  Hatch     (See   Genealogies) 

Dr.  Alwyn  Rose     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Perry  Joslin     (See  Genealogies) 

Dr.  Samuel  Joslin     (See  Genealogies) 

•History  of  Hancock,  p.  242. 


TRADESMEN  623 

We  give  lists  of  tradesmen  discovered,  but  feel  sure  that  some 
names  have  escaped  us.  No  intentional  omissions  are  made. 
But  matters  very  well  known  in  their  day  seem  to  need  no  rec- 
ord, and  pass  out  of  the  memory  of  a  later  generation.  Some 
omissions  will  for  such  reasons  be  unavoidable. 

SHOEMAKERS. 

John  Johnson  James  C.  Bradford 

John  Reynolds  John  J.  Martin 

Jotham  Hildreth  John  M.  Emery 

Jotham  Hildreth,  Jr.  Joseph  H.  Ford 

Ebenezer  Pearson 

CARPENTERS. 

Capt.  Joseph  Richardson  Albert  S.  Conant 

Josiah  Wheeler  Albert  Cram 

Daniel  Putnam  Lorenzo  P.  Jensen 

Israel  Putnam  Alfred  T.  Ford 

Luther  Odell  Charles  L.  Clement 

S.  S.  Cummings  George  Murch 

John  Fletcher  Holt  Edward  D.  Smith 

Charles  Henry  Holt  E.  K.  Warren 

David  C.  Grant  Erwin  D.  Wilder 
David  G.  Dickey 

BLACKSMITHS. 

Josiah  Abbott  (p.  486,  No.  21)  Bradt  Searles 
Jonathan  Butler  Hazen  Morse 

Peabody  at  N.  Lyndeboro  Henry  Stiles 

Jonathan  Thayer  George  S.  Groombridge 

Charles  Whitmarsh  Ward  N.  Cheever 

Solomon  Cram  Herbert  A.  Cheever 

David  Perham  W.  H.  Abbott 

Nelson  Kidder  George  A.  I/ong 

AUTHORS. 

It  is  hardly  to  be  expected  that  a  community  like  ours  should 
produce  many  authors.  The  people  are  mainly  farmers.  Yet, 
a  few  of  Lyndeborough's  children  have  accomplished  some- 
thing, perhaps,  worthy  of  a  moment's  thought  and  mention, 
from  a  literary  point  of  view. 

Rufus  Blanchard  wrote  a  "History  of  the  State  of  Illinois" 
and  several  other  books.  (See  Genealogies.) 


624  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

Sophia  (Blanchard)  Olson'was  the  author  of  pamphlets  and 
magazine  articles.  (See  Blanchard  Genealogies.) 

The  Rev.  Frank  Gray  Clark  is  the  author  of  a  "Historical 
Sermon,"  preached  at  Gloucester,  Mass.,  a  treatise  entitled 
"Congregationalism";  a  "Sermon  at  the  Dedication  of  the 
Congregational  Church  in  Francestown  "  ;  a  "Manual  of  the 
Congregational  Church";  and  the  "Historical  Address"  at 
the  one  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  settlement  of 
Ivyndeborough,  Sept.  4,  1889. 

James  S.  Cram,  a  native  of  the  town  published  a  "Spelling 
Book,  Designed  as  an  Introduction  to  Other  Spelling  Books." 
It  was  printed  at  Concord  by  Hoag  and  Atwood,  1831.  Mr. 
Cram  was  also  a  famous  mathematician  in  his  day.  See  the 
brief  biographical  sketch  elsewhere. 

William  Henry  Grant  was  an  author  of  some  note  among  his 
fellow-citizens  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota.  He  was  the  compiler  of 
"Annals  of  St.  Paul  lyodge,  No.  3,  from  January  10,  1856  to 
Sept.  8,  1899."  He  was  also  compiler  of  "The  Minnesota 
Society,  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  Year  Book,  1889- 
1895."  A  copy  of  these  works  presented  by  him  to  the  library 
of  his  native  town,  will  hardly  fail  to  be  perused  with  great  in- 
terest by  persons  of  a  historical  bias. 

David  Cram  Grant  seems  also  worthy  of  mention.  His  au- 
thorship is  largely  limited  to  his  published  "  Sketch  of  L,ynde- 
borough,"  in  the  History  of  Hillsborough  County.  To  the 
industry  of  these  brothers  in  gathering  information  and  collect- 
ing material  the  history  of  Lyndeborough  is  much  indebted. 

Daniel  Putnam  seems  among  the  foremost  of  our  authors.  His 
oration  at  the  i5Oth  anniversary  of  his  native  town  is  certainly 
no  discredit  to  either  the  town  or  her  son.  For  his  published 
works  see  sketch  elsewhere. 

Dr.  Henry  E.  Spalding  has  written  numerous  articles  for 
medical  journals.  (See  Genealogies.) 

Samuel  Jones  Spalding  is  the  compiler  of  a  portly  and  well 
wrought  history  of  the  "  Spalding  Family,"  which  has  contrib- 
uted something  to  the  aid  of  the  record  of  the  Spalding  families 
in  his  native  town. 

William  L,ewis  Whittemore  is  the  author  of  many  articles 
upon  the  scientific  method  in  education,  or  the  ' '  New  Educa- 
tion." These  articles  have  appeared  in  current  publications  of 
the  day,  in  school  reports,  and  in  other  pamphlets. 


COLLEGE  GRADUATES  625 

Harry  Weston  Whittemore  published  a  few  years  ago  an 
unpretentious,  but  very  pleasant  and  readable  little  book  de- 
scribing an  old  New  England  homestead  and  its  neighborhood. 


GRADUATES. 

Our  list  of  graduates  is  doubtless  incomplete.  We  give  the 
names  of  such  as  have  come  to  our  knowledge,  who  have  re- 
ceived college  degrees  other  than  the  degree  of  M.D. 

Caleb  Houston,  Williams,  1812 

William  Clark 

William  T.  Boutwell,  Dartmouth,  1828 

John  Jones,  Dartmouth,  1834 

James  H.  Merrill,  Dartmouth,  1834 

Benjamin  F.  Clark,  Miami  University,  1833 

James  Boutwell,  Dartmouth,  1836 

Samuel  Jones  Spalding,  Dartmouth,  1838 

Charles  Whiting,  Dartmouth,  1839 

Daniel  Putnam,  Dartmouth,  1851 

Frank  Gray  Clark,  Amherst,  1862 

Benjamin  Asbury  Goodridge,  Boston  University,  1881 

Herbert  B.  Mclntire,  Dartmouth,  1881 

Harry  Weston  Whittemore,  Tufts,  1886 

Algernon  Waite  Putnam,  Brown  University,  1895 


CHAPTER  XXXV. 

MlSCEU<AN  SOUS. 

THE    POPULATION   OF  I<YNDEBOROUGH. 
BY    REV.    D.    DONOVAN. 

It  is  natural  enough  for  us  to  look  back  to  our  origin  as  a 
people.  Very  few  of  our  towns,  it  is  believed,  can  claim  a 
more  homogeneous  population  than  that  of  Lyndeborough. 

We  are  told  that  four  separate  sources  contributed  to  supply 
the  early  colonists  of  New  Hampshire. 

One  of  these  entered  the  territory  by  way  of  the  Piscataqua 
River  and  established  itself  at  Cocheco  and  Strawberry  Bank, 
later  Dover  and  Portsmouth.  This  consisted  of  English,  Scotch, 
a  few  Irish  and  eight  Danes. 

Another  entered  from  the  Massachusetts  colonies  and  as- 
cended the  Merrimack  valley  spreading  east  and  west  from  the 
river.  Exeter  and  Hampton  shared  in  this  overflow  which  was 
plainly  tinged  by  Puritan  ideas. 

Still  another  tributary  started  upward  along  the  Connecticut 
river  diffusing  itself  and  reaching  as  far  north  as  Claremont, 
Cornish,  Lebanon,  and  over  into  "  the  New  Hampshire  Grants." 
This  was  akin  to  that  from  Massachusetts. 

The  fourth  inflow  came  from  Ireland,  and  was  said  to  con- 
sist of  people  of  Scottish  origin  who  with  their  ancestors  had 
been  sojourning  for  a  time  in  the  Emerald  Isle,  and  were  for 
these  causes  called  Scotch-Irish.  They  were  Presbyterians  and 
settled  in  Londonderry,  and  spread  into  other  parts,  giving 
names  to  Dublin,  Antrim  and  some  other  towns. 

To  the  second  division  of  these  colonists  belongs  the  popula- 
tion of  I/yndeborough.  The  ancient  Gaelic  prefixes  O'  and 
Mac  are  seldom  found  among  the  names  of  our  early  settlers. 
They  were  mostly  of  sturdy  Anglo-Saxon  stock,  and  well 
adapted  to  cultivate  the  soil  of  these  rugged  hills  and  sheltered 
valleys  where  they  patiently  toiled  and  built  their  homes. 
To  use  the  words  of  one  of  Lyndeborough 's  distinguished 
sons,  her  people  have  been  "  intelligent,  industrious,  temperate 
and  moral,  as  a  whole." 

THE    CENSUS   OP   I/VNDEBOROUGH    IN    1767. 

The  statistics  of  population  were  furnished  by  W.  H.  Grant, 


MISCELLANEOUS  627 

Esq.,  and  were  probably  taken  from  Farmer  &  Moore's  New 
Hampshire  Gazetteer,  published  in  1823  : 

Males  unmarried,  between  16  and  60  years  of  age  26 

Males  married,  between  16  and  60  years  of  age  48 

Males  under  sixteen  years  of  age  76 
Males  over  sixty  years  of  age  4 

Females  unmarried  71 

Females  married  50 
Widows  2 

Slaves,  none  of  either  sex 


Total  272 

The  population  of  I/yndeborough  in  1775  was  713 
"  "  "  "  "  1790  was  1280 

"  1800  was  976* 

"  "  "  "  "  1810  was  1074 

"  "  "  "  "  1820  was  1163 

To  the  figures  above  given,   Mr.  J.  H.   Goodrich  adds  the 
census  of  the  town  from  1830  to  the  present  time,  as  below : 
Population  of  I^yndeborough  in  1830  was  1147 
"  "  "    1840  was  1032 

"    1850  was    968 

"  "  "  "    1860  was    823 

"  "  "  "    1870  was    820 

"  "  "  "    1880  was    818 

"    1890  was    657 
"  "  "  "    1900  was    686 

THE;  SAI/T  AND  MOLASSES  AFFAIR. 

When  the  Revolutionary  War  commenced  the  town  judged  it 
wise  to  secure  for  its  use  a  liberal  supply  of  such  articles  as  a 
war  would  make  scarce  and  difficult  to  obtain.  Consequently 
at  a  town  meeting,  June  19,  1775,  it  was  voted,  "that  the 
Selectmen  provide  40  hhds.  of  salt,  5  hhds.  of  molasses,  and  i 
hhd.  of  rum  for  the  benefit  of  the  town."  These  articles  were 
procured  by  Francis  Epes,  Josiah  Woodbury  and  Nathan  Pear- 
son, selectmen,  011  the  credit  of  the  town  ;  and  were  purchased 
of  Mr.  Jonathan  Ropes,  of  Salem,  Mass.  But  the  bill  re- 
mained unpaid  for  more  than  twelve  years,  when  in  December, 
1787,  a  committee  consisting  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Jones,  John  Rey- 
nolds and  John  Savage,  was  appointed  to  look  into  the  affair 
and  report  at  an  adjourned  meeting.  Their  report  was  pre- 
sented and  accepted  ;  and  the  town  voted  to  pay  the  bill.  The 
whole  amount  was  about  ^80,  of  which  ^43  53  and  9d.  was 

*  The  decrease  between  1790  and   1800  was  due  to  the  portions  of  her  territory  and 
population  added  to  the  towns  of  Greenfield,  Francestown  and  Temple. 


628  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

due  in  March,  1788.  The  Salem  merchant  was  paid,  but  the 
town  received  no  corresponding  advantage.  Therefore,  Jan. 
n,  1790,  L,ieut.  Amos  Whittemore,  and  Ensign  John  Savage 
were  chosen  a  committee  to  settle  the  matter,  with  full  power  to 
' '  commence  an  action  against  the  said  Epes  and  others  at  the 
next  Inferior  Court, ' '  and  make  return  to  the  town  of  their  pro- 
ceedings as  soon  as  may  be.  This  committee  reported  March 
8,  1791,  and  their  report  was  accepted  and  expenses  were  paid. 
But  the  matter  was  far  from  settled;  for  it  was  stated  on  July 
5,  1791,  that  "  the  Selectmen  had  been  obliged  to  pay  an  execu- 
tion brought  against  the  Town  by  Francis  Epes,  Esq.,  on  the 
salt  affair."  On  the  8th  of  August,  1791,  a  committee  consist- 
ing of  Ephraim  Putnam,  Capt.  William  Barren,  and  Levi 
Spaulding  was  chosen  to  look  into  the  matter,  and  ascertain  if 
possible  how  and  to  whom  said  property  was  disposed  of,  and 
who  are  indebted  to  the  town  for  the  same,  and  apply  to  any  fit 
person  for  counsel  on  the  affair,  and  report  their  information  to 
the  town  at  an  adjourned  meeting.  Accordingly,  on  the  3ist. 
of  October,  1791,  this  committee  reported,  "We  have  made 
diligent  search  into  the  matter,  and  have  applied  to  counsel  for 
advice ;  which  advice  is,  that  the  matter  stands 

fair  to  commence  an  action  against  Messrs.  Epes,  Woodbury, 
and  Pearson,  on  a  special  promise  they  made  to  the  Town  to 
clear  them  from  the  cost  of  the  salt  and  molasses,  as  we  find 
that  the  said  Epes,  Woodbury  and  Pearson  conducted  the  mat- 
ter as  private  property,  as  they  sold  a  great  part  of  the  salt  and 
molasses  after  their  year  was  out  as  selectmen,  and  their  orders 
and  receipts  are  signed  in  a  private  capacity. 
All  of  which  is  humbly  submitted  by  your  committee. 

Ephraim  Putnam  ~\ 
I<evi  Spaulding       >Com." 
William   Barren     ) 

The  case  seems  to  have  been  afterwards  submitted  to  referees, 
whose  decision  was  very  adverse  to  the  town.  For  a  commit- 
tee was  chosen  to  "obtain  a  more  equitable  settlement  with 
Francis  Epes  and  others  than  took  place  with  the  referees,"  and 
this  committee  was  directed  to  proceed  according  to  former  in- 
structions in  carrying  on  the  suit  against  Mr.  Epes  and  others. 
This  subject  continued  to  engage  the  attention  of  the  town 
from  time  to  time  until  the  year  1800,  twenty- five  years  after 
the  original  purchase,  and  from  that  time  we  lose  trace  of  it 
from  the  town  records. 


MISCELLANEOUS  629 

POX    IN    1792.       BY   J.    A.    WOODWARD. 

At  the  present  time  one  can  have  little  idea  of  the  horror  and 
dread  which  the  people  had  of  the  small  pox  in  the  early  days 
of  the  settlement  of  the  town.     Vaccination  was  then  unknown, 
and  the  physicians  had  not  then  learned  to  treat  this  disease. 
In  some  communities  thirty  per  cent,  of  those  attacked  died,  and 
sometimes  the  percentage  was  greater.     It  was  discovered  that 
persons  purposely  inoculated  with  it,  especially  children,  and 
carefully  nursed,  had  it  lightly  and  recovered;    and  in  some 
towns    hospitals  were    established,    where    what    were    called 
"classes"  were  taken  to  be  inoculated,  and  when  these   had 
recovered,  another  "class"  would  be  accommodated.     In  the 
neighboring  town  of  Weare  several  town  meetings  were  held  in 
the  years  1792  and  1793  to  decide  what  should  be  done  about 
these  small  pox  schools  or  hospitals,  and  there  was  much  fear 
and   excitement,    all   of  which  is  recorded   in  the  History  of 
Weare.     In.  1792  a  man  whose  first  name  was  Joe,  but  whose 
surname  is  not  recorded,  was  taken  sick  with  the  dread  dis- 
ease.    He  lived  in  a  house  in  L,yndeborough  near  the  New  Bos- 
ton line,  in  the  northeast  part  of  the  town.     Charles  J.  Smith 
was  a   recent   occupant  of  the  place.     This  Joe's  neighbors, 
nearly  all  of  whom  lived  on  the  New  Boston  side  of  the  line,  were 
frenzied  with  fear  and  excitement,  and  a  meeting  was  held  forth- 
with to  determine  what  should  be  done  in  the  matter.     It  was 
advocated  by  the  majority  that,  as  the  doctor  had  said  that  the 
man  could  not  live  two  days,  it  would  be  the  best  thing  for  all 
concerned  to  burn  patient  and  building,  and  thus  avoid  the 
danger  of  the  spread  of  the  contagion  in  burying  him,  and  also 
the  danger  of  the  disease  being  carried  by  the  wind ;  that  the 
man  was  unconscious  and  a  few  hours  would  make  no  differ- 
ence.    In  excuse  it  may  be  said  again  that  they  were  beside 
themselves  with  horror  and  fear.     While  they  were  planning  to 
put  the  scheme  into  execution  one  or  two  cooler  men  mounted 
swift  horses  and  started  hot  foot  for  the  selectmen  of  I^ynde- 
borough  to  see  if  something  could  not  be  done  to  prevent  such 
a  blot  on  the  fair  fame   of  the  town.     These   selectmen  were 
Jeremiah  Carleton,  Dea.  Ephraim  Putnam  and  Samuel  Houston. 
They  lost  no  time  in  getting  to  the  scene  of  trouble,  and  by 
threats  and  pleadings  soon  succeded  in  calming  the  excitement 
and  preventing  the  threatened  outrage. 

A  poem  was  written  at  the   time  describing  the  occurrence. 


630  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

The  author  is  unknown.  Extracts  from  this  poem  are  inserted, 
as  it  was  a  matter  of  interest,  and  is  something  of  a  literary 
curiosity  : 

The  Pox  prevails,  the  people  rave, 
Each  man's  a  fool,  each  man's  a  knave. 
Poor  Joe  has  caught  it,  takes  his  flight 
And  seeks  a  cave  in  inidst  of  night, 
Dejected,  spurned  and  much  cast  down  ; 
From  each  old  hag  receives  a  frown. 
Spite,  the  food  of  Hell's  production, 
Swells  their  breasts  in  sad  convulsion. 
This  raves,  that  swears,  and  some  desire 
To  burn  his  house  and  all  with  fire. 
To  church  they  go  to  hold  convention 
Each  deeply  fraught  with  ill  intention ; 
When,  Ajax-like,  Longshanks  arose 
******* 

And  thus  addressed  the  grumbling  crew 

*  *  *  *  *       •     *  * 

"  New  Boston's  sons,  How  long  shall  we  • 

Be  [pestered]  thus?    Zounds!     Don't  you  see 

We've  got  into  a  Devilish  box 

As  every  soul  will  have  the  pox  ? 

Beside  yon  stream  a  lonely  dome 

Contains  a  patient  all  alone 

He's  sick  and  easy  overcome 

(Landlord  !     Some  more  New  England  rum  !) 

By  George !     My  friends  I'll  not  take  rest 

Till  I  have  spoilt  that  cursed  nest ! 

If  sloth  and  indolence  prevail 

We'll  fall  as  does  the  rattling  hail. 

Let's  rouse  for  safety  to  our  town 

And  burn  or  tear  his  building  down. 

This  is  my  mind,  if  yours  the  same 

Tomorrow's  sun  shall  see  it  flame." 

Thus  he  belched  forth  his  rancor 

And  brought  his  burden  to  an  anchor. 

*  *  *  *  *  *        .    * 

*  *    The  heads  of  the  adjoining  town, 

*  *     Sent  for  [in  haste]  at  length  came  down, 
In  hopes  that  they  by  candid  means 

Could  pacify  those  crazy  brains. 
And,  fond  of  peace,  they  now  address 
The  frantic,  raving  populace. 
First,  Carleton,  a  judicious  man 
And  friend  to  order,  thus  began  : 
"  Reason,  my  friends,  the  helm  of  life, 
Is  shattered  by  such  gales  of  strife. 
Law,  the  guide  to  friends  of  State, 


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Is  trod  upon  by  such  debate. 

Now  if  both  law  and  reason  die, 

Humanity  will  also  fly. 

Where  then,  my  brothers,  shall  we  be 

When  we  are  stript  of  all  the  three  ? 

From  such  destructions  pray  refrain 

And  reassume  your  sense  again." 

Putnam,  mild,  then  forward  goes, 

And  soothing  language  sweetly  flows  : 

"Why,  my  friends,  such  frantic  fear? 

There's  neither  pox  nor  danger  near. 

Yon  little  cot  by  Towns's  mill 

Contains  it  all  and  ever  will, 

Till  reason  offers  her  direction 

To  purge  and  cleanse  of  the  infection. 

You're  not  exposed  in  any  instance 

If  you  have  wit  to  keep  your  distance." 

Then  Houston,  much  to  mobs  opposed, 

Step'd  forth,  and  thus  the  scene  he  closed. 

"And  do  you  think  the  God  above 

Will  such  a  discord  here  approve  ? 

If  such  the  strife,  the  rage  of  all, 

Religion  [will]  a  victim  fall. 

More  lawful  means  you  ought  to  try, 

And  use  some  more  humanity. 

Mortals  abhor  and  justly  mourn 

The  soul  by  such  destruction  borne. 

Let  each  an  equal  friendship  bear 

And  sympathize  in  his  despair." 

These  words  their  anger  soon  suppressed 

And  slew  the  viper  in  their  breast. 

Now  rage  is  fled,  and  in  its  place 

There's  guilty  shame  in  every  face. 

Each  hangs  his  head  and  sneaks  away, 

Like  Towser  from  his  stolen  prey. 

Thus  the  scene  is  closed  with  shame. 

Let  every  such  turn  out  the  same.  INCOGNITO. 

THE   SMALLPOX   SCARS   OF    1853. 
BY    REV.    D.    DONOVAN. 

In  1853,  the  smallpox  visited  L/yndeborough  and  great  con- 
sternation was  felt  lest  trie  disease  should  spread.  Dr.  Samuel 
G.  Dearborn,  then  of  Milford,  was  called  to  attend  the  patients. 
Being  so  far  away,  he  requested  Dr.  L/orenzo  D.  Bartlett,  his 
brother-in-law,  recently  settled  in  New  Boston,  to  take  charge, 
which  he  accordingly  did.  The  cases  are  said  to  have  been 
limited  to  two  families,  those  of  Mr.  Oliver  Bixby  and  Mr. 
Nathaniel  Jones.  Mrs.  Jones  was  one  of  the  patients 


632  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

which  Dr.  Bartlett  treated.  All  the  patients  recovered  but  the 
doctor  himself  contracted  the  disease.  He  was  taken  to  the 
home  of  Mr.  Jones,  and  there  tenderly  treated  and  carefully 
nursed.  Mr.  Robert  Brown,  the  father  of  our  fellow-citizen, 
Leonard  Brown,  who  was  immune,  having  had  the  disease,  re- 
mained with  him  constantly  to  care  for  him.  He,  however, 
succumbed  to  the  malady,  dying  in  early  manhood,  and  giving 
his  life  as  many  believe  in  devotion  to  both  his  patients  and  his 
chosen  profession. 

The  presence  of  the  scourge  created  great  alarm  among  the 
town's  people,  and  they  feared  to  have  the  body  buried  in  the 
public  cemetery.  As  seemed  best  in  concession  to  this  fear, 
Dr.  Dearborn  bought  a  little  plot  for  its  burial,  and  it  was  laid 
away  to  its  solitary  rest,  a  few  rods  from  the  road  which  leads 
over  the  mountain  towards  Francestown. 

Lorenzo  D.  Bartlett,  M.  D.,  was  a  native  of  Northfield,  N.  H. 
His  parents  were  poor.  His  father  died  during  the  boyhood  of 
the  son,  and  the  care  of  the  children  devolved  on  the  mother.  The 
boy  was  a  bright,  intelligent  lad,  a  good  scholar,  and  he  was 
befriended  by  an  influential  citizen  in  getting  his  education. 
He  chose  the  practice  of  medicine  as  his  calling,  and  prepared 
himself  as  best  he  could  for  it.  He  graduated  with  honor  at 
Castleton  Medical  College,  an  institution  of  very  high  standing 
in  Vermont  ;  afterwards  studied  and  practiced  with  Dr.  S.  G. 
Dearborn  of  Mont  Vernon,  who  gave  him  didactic  lessons  in 
surgery.  He  continued  with  Dr.  Dearborn  about  two  years, 
after  which  he  settled  in  New  Boston,  having  married  the  sister 
of  his  instructor  who  esteemed  him  as  "a  noble  man."  His 
career  ended  at  the  early  age  of  28,  after  he  had  given  promise 
of  great  usefulness  in  his  chosen  profession  ;  and  he  was  highly 
esteemed  and  deeply  lamented.  Dr.  Henry  E.  Spalding  of 
Boston,  a  native  of  Lyndeborough,  recently  said  that  "  Dr. 
Bartlett's  devotion  to  his  patients  and  his  profession  merited  a 
martyr's  plaudit  and  reward."* 

*  When  these  cases  of  smallpox  made  their  appearance  in  Lyndeborough,  vaccine 
matter  seemed  scarce  in  these  parts  and  when  there  was  no  railroad  in  operation 
through  here,  it  required  about  three  days  to  get  it  from  Boston.  People  hastened 
to  be  vaccinated  when  there  was  no  virus  at  hand.  Inoculation  was  resorted  to  in  some 
instances  in  L,yndeborough,  and  Dr.  Dearborn  is  authority  for  the  statement  that  with 
very  slight  exceptions,  the  results  were  good.  The  patients  all  recovered  thoroughly, 
and  suffered  no  permanent  evil  consequences. 

The  above  facts  were  stated  by  Dr.  Dearborn  to  the  writer  at  Nashua,  December 
20,  1902. 


MISCELLANEOUS  633 

SPOTTED   FEVER. 

The  spotted  fever,  which  had  proved  fatal  in  many  of  the 
New  England  towns,  prevailed  in  i,yndeborough  in  1812,  with 
its  accustomed  virulence.  It  is  stated  that  thirteen  persons  died 
as  victims  of  it  in  as  many  days.  A  copy  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Patriot,  of  Concord,  February  25,  1812,  contains  the  fol- 
lowing notice : 

"  DIED.  In  Lyndeborough,  of  the  Spotted  Fever,  a  daughter  of  Mr. 
Edward  Bullard,  aged  10— two  children  of  Mr.  Asa  Manning  — a  son  of 

Mr. Haggett— Mr.  David    Butterfield  —  Mr.  Jacob    Manning  — two 

daughters  of  Capt.  Clark  —  a  son  of  Mr.  Jacob  Wellman." 

Our  town  records  state  that  "Mrs.  Hannah  Killam  and 
Deborah  Clark,  both  daughters  of  Capt.  William  and  Sarah 
Clark,  died  February  19,  1812;  "  thus  harmonizing  with  the 
above  notice. 

Out  of  fifty-eight  deaths,  in  the  town  of  Acworth,  in  less  than 
three  months  in  1812,  fifty-three  were  caused  by  this  plague. 

THE  EXTENSION  OF  THE  WII/TON  R.  R.  TO  GREENFIELD. 

At  a  legal  meeting  of  the  town  of  I,yudeborough  on  Decem- 
ber 23,  1871,  the  following  resolution  was  offered  by  Joel  H. 
Tarbell  : 

RESOLUTION. 

"  To  aid  in  the  construction  of  the  Extension  of  the  Wilton  Railroad  to 
Greenfield,  N.  H. 

Whereas,  the  construction  of  the  said  Railroad  would  be  of  great  pub- 
lic benefit  to  this  section  of  country,  and  would  especially  promote  the 
interest  and  increase  the  wealth  of  this  town, 

And,  whereas  the  town  is  authorized  by  law  to  aid  in  its  construction 
as  provided  in  sections  16  and  17  of  Chapter  34  of  the  General  Statutes  ; 

Therefore,  Resolved  by  the  citizens  of  the  town  of  I/yndeborough  in 
town  meeting  assembled,  that  the  sum  of  Three  Thousand  Dollars  be, 
and  the  same  is  hereby  appropriated  in  aid  of  the  construction  of  the 
extension  of  the  Wilton  Railroad  to  Greenfield,  N.  H.,  which  sum  in 
money  or  in  the  bonds  of  the  town  securing  the  same,  shall  be  delivered 
to  the  Treasurer  of  said  Railroad  Corporation  whenever  the  said  Rail- 
road is  located  and  put  under  contract  for  the  grading  thereof,  and  the 
work  of  grading  the  same  is  commenced  within  the  limits  of  this  town, 
and  notice  thereof  in  writing,  from  the  President  of  said  Corporation 
shall  have  been  received  by  the  Selectmen  of  the  town,  provided  said 
road  is  put  in  running  order  within  two  years  from  this  date." 

The  Resolution  passed  by  a  vote  of  100  in  its  favor,  to  37 
against  it. 

At  a  legal  town  meeting,  October  9,  1873,  it  was  voted,  "  To 
require  the  Peterborough  Railroad  Co.  to  bridge  the  road  near 


634  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Buttrick's  mill."  On  December  6,  1873,  the  Railroad  Commis- 
sioners reported  the  damages  assessed  against  the  Peterborough 
Railroad  in  the  town  of  L,yndeborough.  The  awards  were  : 

To  Alvaro  Buttrick  $300  To  Jothain  Hildreth  $40 

To  William  N.  Ryerson  fioo         To  I,yndeborough  Glass  Co.  $225 

To  James  Burton  $35 

Railroad  Commissioners  )  D.  Gilchrist 

for  f  A.  S.  Twitchell 

New  Hampshire          J  E.  P.  Hodsdon 

Selectmen      ~|  Rufus  Chamberlain 

of  \  George  Rose 

Lyndeborough  J  Adoniram  Russell 

The  railroad  commissioners  adjudged  the  bridging  of  the 
highway  near  Buttrick's  mill  unnecessary.  The  railroad, 
though  a  piece  of  private  property,  was  yet  a  thing  of  public 
interest  to  both  the  town  and  those  who  visited  it.  From  Wil- 
ton to  Greenfield  was  called  the  Peterborough  railroad.  The 
contract  for  building  it  was  awarded  to  George  Washington 
Cram  of  Norwalk,  Conn.  His  father,  Daniel  Cram,  a  native  of 
L,yndeborough,  was  engaged  to  build  the  stone  work.  The 
grade  of  the  road  from  Wilton  to  South  L/yndeborough  averages 
a  rise  of  80  feet  to  the  mile. 

Two  objects  of  considerable  mechanical  curiosity  were  pro- 
duced in  its  construction.  One  was  the  trestle,  and  another  the 
gulf  bridge.  Twenty-five  years  ago,  a  person  going  from 
Wilton  to  South  L,yndeborough  by  rail  would  feel  the  train 
slowing  up  as  he  passed  around  a  curve  just  before  reaching 
the  old  glass  factory.  On  learning  the  cause,  he  would  find 
himself  gliding  over  rails  supported  by  piles  forming  a  trestle- 
work  from  twenty  to  thirty  feet  above  the  ground  level.  It  was 
several  hundred  feet  long  and  was  traversed  with  varying  de- 
grees of  both  curiosity  and  trepidation.  But  soon  after  leaving 
its  stilts,  the  train  plunged  into  a  cut  which  assured  the  timid 
that  they  had  again  reached  terra  forma.  The  trestle  was 
viewed  as  a  triumph  of  engineering  and  lasted  many  years 
without  causing  special  injury  or  accident. 

Early  in  1887,  a  gravel  train  commenced  operations  on  the 
track,  and  filled  all  the  spaces  between  and  around  the  piles, 
and  an  excellent  road-bed  of  stones,  earth  and  gravel  was  built 
up.  There  is  no  visible  trace  of  the  old  trestle.  When  sojourn- 
ers  of  many  years'  absence  return  they  miss  the  trestle,  and 
find  that  it  has  shared  the  fate  of  many  an  old  acquaintance, 
—  has  been  buried. 


MISCELLANEOUS  635 

* 

The  gulf  bridge  still  retains  its  visibility.  It  stands  nearly  a 
mile  west  of  the  South  L/yndeborough  station,  and  spans  the 
ravine  of  the  Rocky  River.  It  is  about  two  hundred  feet  in 
length,  and  trains  crossing  it  are  about  70  feet  above  the  river's 
channel.  The  trusses  of  this  bridge  are  inverted,  or  seem  to 
be  suspended  beneath  the  girders.  They  would  at  first  view  of 
one  unskilled  in  mechanical  engineering  seem  to  hang  as  a 
mere  weight  upon  the  structure.  But  the  structure,  slender, 
strong  and  graceful  in  its  proportions,  has  endured  for  more 
than  thirty  years,  and  as  yet  presents  no  visible  tokens  of  decay. 
The  more  closely  it  is  inspected,  the  deeper  the  impression  it 
leaves  of  its  mechanical  beauty,  power  and  durability. 

FIRES,    ACCIDENTS  AND   INCIDENTS. 

Dec.  7,  1757.     Congregational  Church  organized. 

Oct.  3,  1778.  Benj.  Bullock  killed  a  bear.  Mr.  Bullock  lived  at  North 
Lyndeborough.  His  land  joined  Capt.  Peter  Clark's  on  the  east  and 
south. 

June  23,  1780.  Putnam's  house  burned.  This  refers  to  Ephraim  Put- 
nam. The  house  in  question  stood  nearly  opposite  the  house  of  Mr. 
Lawrence  on  Putnam  hill,  South  Lyndeborough. 

Dec.  4,  1784.     George,  son  of  Capt.  Levi  Spaulding,  drowned. 

Feb.  8,  1788.  Astain's  mill  burned.  Supposed  to  refer  to  a  mill  at  No. 
Lyndeborovrgh  on  the  Piscataquog  river. 

Nov.  21,  1793.  Jonathan  Barren,  drowned  in  Badger  pond  while  cross- 
ing the  ice  on  his  way  to  church. 

April  23,  1797.  John  Ordway's  house  burned.  This  house  stood  where 
Chas.  J.  Cutnmings  lives. 

Feb.  19,  1798.  Dutton's  house  burned.  Obscure,  but  supposed  to  refer 
to  Reuben  Dutton's  house,  north  of  the  mountain. 

Dec.  ii,  1804.     Oliver  Whiting's  barn  burned. 

Aug.  13,  1819.  Samuel  Allen  drowned.  He  lived  at  North  Lynde- 
borough near  the  Cunningham  place. 

1819.     Ira   Houston  collects  the  taxes  for  the  "  honor  of  the 
office," 

April  20,  1820.     Luke  Giddings  killed. 

March  4,  1826.     Uriah  Smith  died  in  town  meeting.     Heart  disease. 

Dec.  13,  1827.     Deborah  Parker  thrown  from  a  wagon  and  killed  at  North 
Lyndeborough.     Horse  ran  away.     She  had  attended  a  prayer-meet- 
ing at  the  No.  4  Schoolhouse.     In  driving  home  the  rein  broke. 

April  2.  1834.  Capt.  Peter  Farnum  fell  into  a  tan  vat  and  was  drowned. 
This  was  at  the  tannery  that  used  to  stand  just  west  of  where  James 
H.  Karr  lives. 

Aug.  13,  1836.     Edgar  Rand's  child  drowned. 

"      "      "        Schoolhouse  at  District  No.  6  burned. 

Mar.  3,  1843..    Dr-  Israel  Herrick's  house  burned. 

Feb.  16,  1845.     Moses  Chenery's  house  broken  into  and  goods  stolen. 

Mar.  25,  1845.     Old  Congregational  church  sold  to  Jacob  Butler  for  $86 


636  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

•f 

Feb.  18,  1849.     Sarah  Wilson's  house  burned. 

Mar.  8,  1849.    James   L,.  Clark's  house  burned.     This  was  where  C.  L. 

Perham  lives. 

July  18,  1850.     Capt.  Peter  Clark  assaulted  at  Amherst. 
Oct.  3,  1850.     Collins   Wyman  was  accidentally  shot  and   killed  on  the 

Pinnacle.     He  was  drawing  his  gun  up  over  a  ledge  with  the  muzzle 

toward  him  when  the  hammer  caught  and  the  gun  was  discharged. 
May  8,  1852.     Mrs.  Artenias  Woodward   was  thrown  from  a  wagon  and 

killed  on  the  hill   west  of  where  George   E.  Spalding  lives.     She 

was  carrying  the  mail  from  South  Lyndeborough  to  the  centre.     In 

returning  the  bit  broke  and  the  horse  ran,  throwing  her  out  near  the 

foot  of  the  hill.     A  monument  marks  the  spot. 
March  5,  1854.     Dr.  L/orenzo  D.  Bartlett  died  of  small  pox  and  was  buried 

in  a  lonely  spot  on  "  Crooked  S.  "  hill. 
July  3,  1854.     Twelve  cases  of  small  pox  in  town  and  great  excitement 

and  fear. 

Feb.  i,  1856.     Phineas  Kidder  run  over  by  his  sled. 
May  22,  1857.     New  bell  hung  in  the  Congregational  church  belfry. 
Sept.  12,  1859.     Robert  B.  Osgood  lost  an  arm   by  the  premature   dis- 
charge of  a  blast. 

June  17,  1860.     Samuel  Hodgeman  killed  by  lightning. 
Dec.  31,  1861.     Solomon  D.  Avery's  child  burned. 
June  10,  1865.     Lightning  struck   Nathan  Richardson's  barn  and  killed 

his  horse.     Barn  not  destroyed. 
Oct.   4,    1866.      Daniel  B.  Whittemore  fell   from  tree  and  broke  a  leg. 

A  similar  misfortune  befel  him  Nov.  8,  1892,  in  falling  from  the  high 

beams    of  his  barn. 

Oct.  8,  1868.     Eli  Curtis's  buildings  burned. 
May  13,  1870.     William  W.  Curtis's   store  and  buildings  at  the   centre 

burned. 

March  n,  1871.     Sumner   French's  house  burned.     This  was  the  brick 
house  north  of  the  mountain,  built  by  Daniel  Woodward  in  1820. 
April  22,  1872.     A  Mr.  Sawyer  was  killed  at  Samuel  N.  Hartshorn's  mill. 

He  was  repairing  the  wheel-pit,  when  the  wheel  fell  upon  him. 
Sept.  26,  1872.     George  M.  Cram  hurt  by  a  blast  at  South  L,yndeborough. 
Jan.  24,  1881.     David  Stiles  killed  by  an  engine  on  the  railroad  crossing 
Sept.  6,  1881.     Yellow  day. 
Oct.  6,  1881.     Azro  D.  Cram's  buildings  burned. 

at  South  Lyndeborough. 
Oct.  29,  1885.     Benj.  B.  Ames  was  kicked  by  his  horse,  from  the  effects 

of  which  he  died,  Dec.  8,  1885. 

Aug.  29,  1887.    John  Stearns  shot  and  killed  himself. 
July  31,  1890.     Frank  B.  Tay's  buildings  struck  by  lightning  and  burned. 
Sept.  26,  1890.    Jason  Holt  met  with   an   accident  on   the   railroad  and 

lost  a  leg. 

April  7,  1892.     Schoolhouse  in  District  No.  i  burned. 
Sept.  16,  1892.     Carlos  Wheeler  fell  from   his  wagon  and  was   run  over 

and  killed  near  South  Lyndeborough. 

Nov.  26,  1892.     Clifton  S.  Broad  was  thrown  from  a  wagon  and  killed  on 
the  mountain  north  of  R.  C.  Mason's. 


MISCELLANEOUS  637 

July  8,  1893.    Jotham  Hildreth  fell  from  the  railroad  bridge  near  But- 

trick's  mills  and  was  killed. 
Mar.    12,  1900.     Warren   Holden   of  Mel  rose,  Mass.,   was  thrown  from 

sleigh  and  killed  near  the  house  of  Mrs.  Nathan  Cummings. 
Mar.  2,  1904.     Eliphalet  J.  Hardy  was  killed  by  a  tree  falling  upon  him. 

He  was  the  father  of  Rev.  O.  E.  Hardy. 


CHAPTER  XXXVI. 


MORTUARY  RECORD. 

The  dates  of  the  decease  of  earlier  citizens  must  be  sought 
in  the  genealogical  records.  The  printed  reports  of  the  town 
previous  to  1861  seem  to  contain  no  specific  mortuary  lists.  In 
that  year,  however,  a  full  list  of  the  deaths  seems  to  be  given. 
In  transcribing  the  list,  .some  who  died  in  infancy  and  child- 
hood, are  for  obvious  reasons  omitted.  A  few,  however,  who 
died  quite  young,  are,  for  special  reasons,  occasionally  retained. 
Our  list  then,  consisting  of  names,  dates  of  decease,  and  ages, 
commences  with  1861,  and  will  awaken  sorrowful  interest  in  the 
hearts  of  many  who  glance  it  over. 

1861. 

68    Aug.  29,  Ruth  Barnes  86 

65     Sept.  12,  Charles  J.  Hartshorn       18 
71     Oct.  i,  Cyrus  Blauchard  53 

73    Nov.  13,  Jacob  Crosby  53 

59    Nov.  24,  Catherine  L.  Blauchard  61 
20    Dec.  14,  Reuben  Stearns  17 

Dec.  18,  Sarah  A.  Richardson        47 
71     Dec.  21,  John  Perham  71 

1862. 

Aug.  4,  Mrs.  Nancy  P.  J.  Putnam  63 
Aug.  30,  Joseph  Chamberlain  72 
Sept.  15,  John  Wellnan  72 

Sept.  25,  Mrs.  Nabby  Bachelder  92 


May  n,  John  Gage 
June  17,  Moses  Cheiiery 
June  26,  Samuel  Howard 
June  29,  James  Cram 
June  29,  Jeremiah  Hartshorn 
July  21,  Harvey  Holt,  Jr. 

(In  battle  at  Manassas,  Va.) 
Aug.  26,  Nathan  P.  Cummings 


April  25,  Geo.  Washington  Holt  36 

May  5,  John  Alonzo  Hartshorn       21 

(In  battle  of  Williamsburg,  Va.) 


May  20,  Antoinette  A.  Kidder 
May  27,  Mrs.  Mary  Brown 
June  n,  Ephraim  Putman 

Feb.  25,  John  Millen 
March  9,  Solomon  Cram 
March  30,  Sarah  Badger 
May  6,  Walter  Chamberlain 

(New  Orleans,  La.) 
May  17,  Jotham  P.  Draper 

(at  Baton  Rouge,  La.) 
June  18,  Mary  Twitchell 
June  28,  John  R.  Butler 

(New  Orleans,  La.) 
June  30,  Eben  J.  Palmer 

(Baton  Rouge,  La.) 


34 
85 
77 


Nov.  26,  Mrs.  Mary  H.  Wheeler   59 
Dec.  9,  William  B.  Abbot  51 

1863. 

77    Aug.  5,  Nathan  S.  Harris  27 

61  (fell  from  transport  at  night 
90  and  was  drowned  in  the  Mis- 
16  sissippi) 

Aug.  10,  John  H.  Karr  24 

25         (At  Vicksburg) 

Aug.  15,  James  Boutwell  43 

54        (returned  soldier) 
23     Aug.  15,  Mrs.  Daniel  Morse 

Aug.  17,  Mrs.  Hannah  L.   Wood- 
22        ward  63 

Sept.  ii,  Polly  Wellman  64 

Oct.  31,  Timothy  Joslin  64 

Nov.  23,  Mrs.  A.  Joslin  58 


MORTUARY  RECORD 


639 


Feb.  22,  Betsey  Odell  Carkin 
April  10,  James  Page 
June  12,  Abigail  Cram 


Jan.  9,  Elnathan  Hodgetnan 
(on  transport  ascending  the 
Mississippi  River) 
Jan.  12,  Samuel  Buttrick 
Feb.  3,  Hannah  E.  Fish 
Feb.  8,  Betsey  Chamberlain 
March  23,  Dea.  William  Jones 

Feb.  18,  Dr.  Israel  Herrick 
March  22,  Benj.  Warren  Button 
April  3,  Dea.  Daniel  Wood- 
ward, Jr. 

April  3,  Rev.  Jacob  White 
April  22,  Elizabeth  B.  Mclutre 
April  22,  Ira  G.  Morrison 

April  n,  Henry  Clark 

June  3,  John  Carson 

June  25,  Daniel  Woodward 

(in  FrancestownJ 
July  3,  Mrs.  Mary  Adaline  Put- 
nam 

July  15,  Mrs.  Susanna  Karr 
July  17,  John  H.  Stephenson 
Sept.  9,  Harvey  Chamberlain 
(at  River  De  Loup,  C.  E.) 

Jan.  7,  Samuel  Everett  Swin- 

ington 

Feb.  20,  Israel  Cram 
Feb.  21,  Mrs.  Amy  Blanchard 

(at  So.  Danvers,  Mass.) 
Feb.  29,  Mrs.  Eunice  Stafford 
March  10,  Mrs.  Rosa  Y.  Holt 
March  26,  Mrs.  Mary  B.  Whiting 

Jan.  9,  Mrs.  Sarah  G.  Jones 
Jan.  22,  Mr.  Jacob  Ellingwood 
Jan.  23,  Mrs.  Rhoda  E.  Parker 
Feb.  17,  Mr.  Daniel  Proctor 
April  8,  Mrs.  Nancy  Chenery 
May  2,  Mrs.  Naomi  Russell 


1864. 

60    June  14,  Ephraim  H.  Putnam        59 
63     Dec.  22,  Ebenezer  Duncklee          83 
71     Dec.  27,  Jona.  Hartwell  Stephen- 
son  29 

1865. 

30    June  3,  Loammie  Eaton  84 

July  24,  Gorham  B.  Clark  18 

Aug.  20,  Jonathan  Bailey  78 

78  Nov.  3,  Lizzie  N.  Boutwell  30 
86     Nov.  14,  Harvey  Holt  57 
84    Dec.  15,  Hannah  Holt  73 
75 

1866. 

71     Sept.  19,  Olivia  J.  Curtis  Bald- 

19  win  24 
Oct.  28,  George  Putnam  90 

56  Dec.  4,  Sarah  S.  Wilson  90 

59  Dec.  17,  Amy  Cram  88 

79  Dec.  27,  Capt.  Eleazer  Putnam  66 
22 

1867. 

78    Sept.  10,  Miss  Sarah  Maria 

75        Stevens  34 

99    Sept.  n,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Harwood  83 

Sept.  14,  Marcus  De  H.  Wheeler  28 

Sept.  19,  Mrs.  Sally  Harris  68 

62  Sept.  20,  Benjamin  Crosby  64 
50    Sept.  27,  Miss  Abigail  Richard- 

34        son  65 

34    Oct.  22,  Sylvester  Proctor  62 

1868. 

May  5,  David  Hovey  83 

33     May  18,  Nathan  Augustus  Fish  29 

78    July  23,  Samuel  Jones  65 

92     Oct.  2,  Mrs.  Cassa  J.  Sanford  16 

(at  Stowe,  Mass.) 

82     Oct.  23,  Calvin  Abbott  44 

20  Nov.  ii,  James  B.  Hall  27 

82  Dec.  18,  Sarah  A.  Mullett  74 
1869. 

63  Sept.  26,  Mr.  Asa  Senter 

83  Oct.  27,  Mr.  Benjamin  Dutton       68 
25    Oct.  31,  Mrs.  Hannah  S.  Hadley  97 
66     Nov.  24,  Mrs.  Abigail  H.  Holt 

71     Dec.  17,  Mrs.  Polly  B.  Bailey        74 
82 


640 


HISTORY  OF  L  YtfDEBOROUGH 


March  8,  Mrs.  Sarah  B.  Butler 
March  30,  Clarence  Russell 

April  8,  Job  Swinington  76 

May  13,  Mrs.  Ann  Holt  68 

May  17,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Perkins  29 

May  26,  Levi  Tyler  69 
June  10,  Dea.  David  Putnam  79.11 
Aug.  18,  Miss  Lucy  A.  Steph- 

ensou  23 


1870. 

76    Sept.  20,  Oliver  Harris 
19     Sept.  28,  Robert  B.  Osgood 
Oct.  10,  James  Gould 
Oct.  18,  Mrs.  Susan  O.  Wood- 
ward (at  Surry,  C.  H.,  Va.) 
Oct.  26,  Mrs.  Edna  A.  Clark 
Dec.  3,  Mrs.  Dorothy  Wheeler 
Dec.  15,  Mrs.  Miranda  Rand 
Oct.  17,  Miss  Mary  Shedd 


1871. 

Jan.  i,  Mrs.  Sarah  Eaton  76    Feb.  9,  Mrs.  Mary  Proctor 

Annual  Town  Report  for  1871  has  only  the  last  names. 
The  Town  Report  for  1872  contains  no  Obituary  Record. 

1872. 

8i.ii     Sept.  21,  Albert  J.  Kidder 
30 
32 
52 


Feb.  i,  Andrew  Fuller 
March  22,  Hattie  Maria  Rose 
March  30,  Hattie  S.  Stevens 
May  13,  Sophronia  Clark 
Aug.  7,  William  Gould 
Aug.  9,  Hannah  Putnam 
Aug.  18,  Mark  Newton 
Sept.  16,  Mary  A.  Draper 


96 

42 
70 


Sept*  26,  Nancy  Gould 
Oct.  n,  James  L.  Clark 
Oct.  20,  Rachel  P.  Kidder 
Nov.  5,  Hannah  Carson 
Dec.  16,  Anthony  A.  Ames 
Dec.  25,  Timothy  Brown 


March  4,  Mary  E.  Holt 
March  28,  Cornelia  E.  Moore 
April  7,  John  Richardson 
April  12,  Eliza  N.  Jones 
April  21,  Daniel  J.  Moore 
April  21,  Asher  Curtis 
April  25,  Stephen  D.  Holt 


1873 — 1875,  No  Mortuary  Report. 
1876. 

May  i,  Rhoda  H.  Emery 
Aug.  7,  EH  Curtis 
Oct.  4,  Mary  H.  Abbott 
Dec.  5,  George  B.  Raymond 
Dec.  7,  Rufus  P.  Chase 
Dec.  28,  Lottie  A.  Stephenson 


Jan.  12,  Lucy  E.  Putnam 
Feb.  14,  Joseph  H.  Ford 
March  13,  Mr.  Richard  Young 
March  31,  Mrs.  Emeline  Holt 
Dec.  24,  1876,  (in  California),  Mr. 

J.  Barron  Clark, 

Buried  in  Lyndeborough 


20 

45 
66 

74 
50 
89 

53 

1877. 
37     May  16,  Rev.  E.  B.  Claggett, 


79 
78 
32 


22 

75 
63 

21 

75 


32 
70 
82 

59 
82 

72 
80 


86 
92 
19 


26 


61 


Feb.  10,  Mr.  John  Hartshorn 
Feb.  19,  Mr.  George  F.  Cutter 
April  3,  Daniel  Cunningham 
May  19,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cram 


66  at  New  Fairfield,  Conn.,  for  24 
80  years  pastor  of  Congregational 
58  Church  in  Lyndeborough 

June  10,  Mr.  Manley  Kidder          66 
54    June  14,  Mr.  William  M.  Warner  21 
July  21,  Mrs.  Mina  G.  Lane  25 

July  22,  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Spalding      65 
August  2,  Mr.  Alfred  A.  Whitney  60 
1878. 

66    July  14,  Mrs.  Eunice  A.  Clay          23 
39    Aug.  3,  Miss  Etneline  Spalding     37 
80    Oct.  5,  Mrs.  Caroline  F.  Wood- 
87        ward  58 


MORTUARY  RECORD 


641 


May  23,  Rev.  W.  L.  S.  Clark 
June  14,  Solon  B.  Richardson 
July  6,  Mrs.  Lucy  G.  Clark 

Jan.  n,  Joseph  Perham 
Jan.  18,  Mrs.  Susan  Ordway 
Jan.  28,  Mrs.  Mary  B.  Perham 
Feb.  25,  Oliver  Perham 
March  3,  Mrs.  Susan  Putnam 
March  8,  Mrs.  Mary  Stratton 
March  10,  John  J.  Balch 
March  16,  Mrs.  Abigail  M.  Balch 
March  20,  Nelson  Ryerson 
April  5,  Huse  Karr 
April  6,  Frederick  I.  Bishop 
June  26,  Abigail  Hadley 


64  Nov.  n,  Mrs.  AlmandaC.  Conant  28 
38  Dec.  28,  Brackley  Rose  82 
70 

1879. 

76  Aug. 

81  Aug. 

65  Aug. 
60  Sept 
72  Sept 
68  Oct. 
74  Nov. 
68  Nov. 
19  Dec. 
81  Dec. 
18  Dec. 


3,  Elias  Mclntire 

4,  Mrs.  Emma  Ella  Smith 
17,  George  N.  Bishop 

.  7,  Maria  H.  Stephenson 
.  25,  Peter  Clark 

23,  Jonathan  Clark 

20,  Mrs.  Sarah  H.  Kidder 
26,  George  Bishop 

5,  Mrs.  Betsey  P.  Gage 
19,  Miss  Myrta  M.  Crani 

24,  Mrs.  Dorothy  Lindsay 


Jan.  2,  Mrs.  Lydia  \V.  Putnam 
Feb.  4,  Francis  D.  Johnson 
April  16,  Mrs.  Maria  T.  May- 

nard 

May  i,  Olney  P.  Butler 
Children:  March  30,  Walter  H.; 
April  5,    Mark  W.;  April   20, 
Lizzie  H.;  April  29,  William  L, 
died  of  diphtheria 

Jan.  24,  David  Stiles 
Feb.  16,  William  E.  Wallace 
March  20,  Myrtie  Putnam 
April  28,  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Hadley 
May  5,  Mrs.  Cynthia  Kidder 
Barrett 


79 


1880. 

May  28,  Mrs.  Sarah  S.  Young 
July  22,  Emerson  Batchelder 
Sept.  7,  Mrs.  Hattie  E.  Holt 
Sept.  26,  Micah  Hartshorn 
Dec.  i,  Mrs.  Maria  A.  Sweetser 
Dec.  8,  Mrs.  Clarissa  C.  Curtis 


1881. 

70    Aug.  14,  Mrs.  Polly  Perham 
52    Oct.  9,  Mrs.  Mahala  Wilson 
16    Nov.  9,  Alfred  B.  Spalding 
80    Dec.  8,  Mary  Stephenson 


Jan.  27,  Edward  B.  Sulham 
Jan.  30,  Dea.  John  C.  Goodrich 
March  10,  Timothy  Ordway 
April  13,  Antoine  Farnham 
April  16,  Jacob  Butler 
May  23,  John  Lowe 


56 

1882. 

21  May  27,  Mrs.  Charlotte  Baldwin 

78  Aug.  2,  Miss  Hattie  Gibson 

86  Aug.  n,  Mrs.  Sarah  B.  Peterson 
52  Sept.  12,  Mrs.  Addie  S.  Stacey 

87  Oct.  3,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Fish 
86  Oct.  20,  Mrs.  J.  D.  Putnam 


1883. 


Jan.  12,  Mrs.  Hannah  Fish  79 

Jan.  19,  William  A.  Bailey  41 

Feb.  13,  Neil  J.  Dickey  11.2 

March  30,  Ebenezer  Fish  73 

April  17,  John  F.  Holt  75 

May  18,  Sarah  Stephenson  91 


June  2,  Timothy  T.  Putnam 
July  21,  Allie  A.  Holden 
Sept.  3,  Nathan  P.  Cummings 
Oct.  14,  Jotham  Stephenson 
Nov.  24,  Abbie  J.  Spalding 


96 
29 
28 

34 
82 
84 
65 
55 
79 
16 
76 


73 

72 

53 
87 
38 
83 


89 
86 

32 

87 


76 
4i 
40 

32 
86 

51 


65 
24 
55 
78 
40 


642 


HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 


Jan.  17,  Charles  F.  Allen 
March  4,  Willie  B.  Bell 
March  31,  Artemas  Woodward 
May  19,  Clara  A.  Sheldon 
July  7,  Mrs.  John  Lowe 
Aug.  27,  Anna  Fish 
Oct.  4,  Lelia  C.  Ross 

Feb.  8,  Mrs.  Lucy  Batchelder 
March  24,  William  N.  Ryerson 
April  13,  Mrs.  Hannah  F.  Harts 
horn 

Jan.  18,  Herman  Wright 
Feb.  25,  John  H.  Farnham 
March  n,  Morris  M.  Emery    64. 
March  12,  Frank  H.  Powers     • 
May  6,  Clintina  Richardson 
July  4,  Belle  Curtis 
Aug.  16,  George  Chenery 

Jan.  2,  Lois  H.  Emery 
Jan.  7,  Hannah  P.  Batchelder 
Jan.  20,  Edward  Paige  Spalding 
Jan.  29,  Harriet  R.  Dascomb 
Feb.  5,  George  S.  Dolliver 
Feb.  23,  Betsey  A.  Ford  72 

Feb.  24,  Charles  F.  Tarbell 
Feb.  26,  Jacob  D.  Putnam 
March  n,  Lucinda  Searles 
March  22,  John  A.  Putnam 
May  20,  Sarah  B.  Fish 
May  30,  Lafayette  Herrick 


1884. 

25  Oct.  22,  David  Holt 

12  Nov.  i,  Mrs.  Lucy  Cram 

72  Nov.  18,  Ida  M.  Herrick 

30  Nov.  30,  Mrs.  Sally  L.  Curtis 

83  Dec.  u,  Mrs.  Gratia  Bishop 

79  Dec.  14,  Foster  Woodward 
22 

1885. 

44    April  19,  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Cram 
52    June  20,  Jesse  Simonds 

Aug.  10,  Josiah  M.  Parker 
88    Dec.  8,  Benjamin  B.  Ames 

1886. 

77  Sept.  27,  Nathan  Fish 
20    Oct.  3,  Clark  S.  Gordon 
,11     Oct.  15,  Clarissa  O.  Burton 
24    Oct.  28,  Sarah  S.  Fish 

20  Nov.  4,  Elmira  H.  Small  Holt 

24  Dec.  27,  George  D.  Eaton 

43  Dec.  29,  Thomas  J.  Draper 

1887. 

68  April  ii,  Caroline  Cram 

78  May  10,  Emma  L.  Ryerson 
82  June  5,  Cynthia  S.  Jaquith 
75  Aug.  29,  John  W.  Stearns 
32  Sept.  30,  John  Dolliver 

ii     Dec.  ii,  Pamela  A.  Goodrich 


1888. 

44  July  8,  Abigail  H.  Crosby 

59  Aug.  3,  Sarah  Richardson 

72  Sept.  15,  Sarah  B.  Putnam 

64  Oct.  24,  Ann  E.  Fuller 

42  Nov.  27,  Carrie  E.  Ordway 


63    Dec.  19,  Ruth  T.  Gangloff 


81 
81 
18 
86 
54 
75 


79 
75 
79 

73 

90 
58 

83 
76 
60 
71 
75 

50 
J7 
75 
68 

77 
84 

82 
68 
82 

So 
26 

33 


Feb.  7,  Nathaniel  R.  Fish 
March  18,  Caroline  E.  Jensen 

(Lena) 
May  7,  Ruby  Hartshorn 

Feb.  23,  Elvira  Cheney 
Mar.  i,  David  D.  Clark 
Mar.  28,  Carrie  L-  Spofford 
April  6,  Wilbur  F.  Hackett 
May  10,  Salathiel  L.  Wheeler 
May  12,  H.  W.  Hodgeman 
May  30,  Sarah  P.  Clark 


92     Oct.  19,  Alvaro  Buttrick  68 

16    Nov.  2,  Mary  E.  Foster  52 

Nov.  14,  Willie  Ryerson  22 

87     Dec.  30,  Charles  L.  Hutchinson      52 

1890. 

38    June  ii,  Addie  P.  Foster  45 

72    June  23,  John  J.  Gangloff  35 

28  Aug.  8,  Sally  Rose  84 
59    Nov.  25,  Annette  H.  Jenson  16 
59    Nov.  30,  Charles  Fletcher  90 

29  Dec.  28,  Alfred  F.  Holt  52 
96 


MORTUARY  RECORD 


643 


Feb.  4,  Harriet  E.  Merrill 
Feb.  14,  Joel  H.  Tarbell 
Mar.  16,  Oliver  Watkins 
Apr.  29,  Adoniram  Russell 
Apr.  29,  Edward  Powers, 
June  3,  Emeline  G.  Herrick 
June  28,  Levi  Spalding 


1891. 

40  July  4,  Charles  A.  Hibbard  37 

75  Aug.  n,  Isaac  L.  Duncklee  66 

68  Aug.  30,  David  S.  Draper  52 

69  Sept.  6,  John  M.  Emery  62 
58  Nov.  23,  Otis  Perham  71 
79  Dec.  9,  Lucy  Wheeler  44 
81 


Jan.  3,  Mary  E.  Farnnam 
Jan.  9,  Lucian  B.  Bowman 
Jan.  20,  Eva  E.  Ross 
Jan.  31,  Nelson  Kidder 
April  13,  Dorothy  Henderson 
April  14,  Lois  A.  Watkins 
April  20,  Robert  K.  Lynch 
May  24,  Martha  Chamberlain 
June  9,  Edwin  N.  Patch 

Feb.  4,  Orrin  N.  Cram 

Feb.  ii,  Lois  Burrough  Marshall 

March  2,  Elizabeth  Blanchard  90 


47  July  6,  David  Carkin 

70  July  6,  Emily  Stephenson 

27  Aug.  28,  Orpah  S.  Russell 

84  Sept.  16,  Carlos  Wheeler 
80        teamster,  crushed  by  his 

70  loaded  cart 

63  Oct.  26,  Mada  Hutchinson 

71  Nov.  8,  Bertha  E.  Holt 
67  Dec.  5,  Clifton  W.  Broad 

1893. 


April  26,  John  Gillespie 
June  26,  Mamie  A.  Perham 
July  8,  Jotham  Hildreth 
Aug.  18,  Celia  Foote 
Sept.  5,  Kilburn  S.  Curtis 

Jan.  9,  Hannah  Carr 
Jan.  21,  Harriet  Moore 
Feb.  2,  Carl  A.  Eaton 
Feb.  7,  Eliza  A.  Eaton 
March  20,  Alfred  Stearns 

Feb.  10,  Abbie  E.  Pickett 
died  in  Newton,  Mass. 
March  6,  Mary  A.  Hall 

March  19,  Hiram  F.  Curtis 
April  i,  Etta  Burton 
April  30,  Julien  E.  Wright 
June  27,  Frank  H.  Senter 

Drowned  in  New  Boston 
June  27,  Dellie  E.  Holden 

Drowned  in  New  Boston 

Jan.  29,  Mary  A.  Holt 

Jan.  31,  Charles  Henry  Holt 


Sept.  ii,  Lois  C.  Holt 
Oct.  9,  Abigail  C.  Putnam 
Oct.  20,  Asa  Hill 
Oct.  21,  S.  Kate  Putnam 
Dec.  15,  Rebecca  B.  Perham 
Dec.  27,  Abram  Boutell 
Eliza  K.  Russell 


59 
92 
.11 
60.  ii 
27 
86 
38 
72 

1894. 

76    April  ii,  Flora  E.  Reynolds 
72     April  30,  Sarah  A.  Curtis 
13    June  30,  Myra  M.  Davis 
76    July  2,  Samuel  N.  Hartshorn 
31     Aug.  20,  Caroline  P.  Spalding 

1895. 
36     March  8,  Warren  F.  Needham 

April  i,  Levi  P.  Bailey 
62    July  ic,  Julia  A.  Holden 

1896. 

58     July  i ,  John  A.  Bradford 
42     Sept.  20,  Franklin  Senter 
70    Oct.  31 ,  Rebecca  F.  Grant 
13     Nov.  21,  Hattie  Clark 

Nov.  23,  Henry  Weeeler 
13 

1897. 

72     Aug.  13,  Frank  P.  Hadley 
69    Sept.  7,  Samuel  S.  Cummings 


86 
75 
58 
18 


26 
18 
23 

80 
79 
77 
52 
69 
7i 
79 


34 
75 
43 
65 
75 

43 
76 

75 

53 
78 
74 
36 
29 


29 
79 


644 


HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 


Feb.  12,  Maria  E.  Owen 
April  17,  Eliza  A.  Senter 
April  17,  Nellie  M.  Herrick 


69    Nov.  16,  Mary  E.  Cram  58 

79    Nov.  23,  John  W.  Millay  22 

28    Dec.  29,  Abbie  E.  Dolliver  78 


Jan.  6,  Charles  Young 
April  8,  Lucy  P.  Kidder 
April  9,  Alice  C.  Curtis 
April  16,  David  Lover 


Jan.  6,  Richard  H.  Ross 
Jan.  23,  Benjamin  J.  Clark 
March  n,  Dana  B.  Sargent 
April  15,  Ursula  J.  Stearns 
April  17,  Susan  Miller 
April  27,  Franklin  H.  Kidder 
May  26,  Willis  D.  Sargent 
June  8,  Nathan  Richardson 

Jan.  24,  David  C.  Grant 
Feb.  14,  Wilkes  H.  Hadley 
Feb.  16,  Jennie  S.  Cram 
March  13,  Warren  Holden 
March  26,  Mary  E.  Dickey 
April  4,  Morris  Frye 

Feb.  9,  George  H.  Stevens 
March  7,  S.  May  Cheever 
May  2,  Sarah  Ross 
May  30,  Mary  J.  Brown 
Aug.  27,  Hannah  Bailey 
Oct.  7,  Electa  Gage 

Jan.  29,  Harvey  Perham 
March  23,  Andrew  J.  Marshall 
May  21,  John  Rand 
June  ii,  Amanda  E.  Cheever 
July  24,  Betsey  A.  Lynch 

Jan.  3,  Annie  E.' Draper 
Jan.  31,  Nettie  C.  Chute 
Feb.  2,  Elizabeth  B.  Mclntire 
March  i,  Susanna  P.  Hartshorn 
March  12,  Abbie  S.  Wright 
March  24,  Byron  Putnam 
May  n,  Charles  M.  Butler 
May  26,  Joseph  Sharp 


69  May  9,  Samuel  T.  Merrill 

91  Sept.  3,  Jennie  Danforth 

23  Oct.  9,  Olive  Patch 
42 

1899. 

July  26,  Lydia  I.  Putnam 

74  Aug.  15,  Anna  Andrews 

52  Aug.  29,  Wilson  Thorndike 

53  (at  Mr.  Gould's) 

74  Sept.  5,  Elsie  M.  Kidder 

80  Sept.  17,  Phineas  Collier 

18  Sept.  29,  Luciuda  Rand 

83  Oct.  29,  Betsey  F.  Hadley 


1900. 

76  April  22,  Jane  W.  Ames 

78  July  21,  John  Kiellen 
49  J°ly  Io»  Eliza  A.  Parker 

63  Aug.  31,  Eliza  Cummings 
58  Nov.  13,  Harriett  Russell 
81  Dec.  8,  Julia  A.  Hill 

1901. 

64  Nov.  14,  Esther  P.  Tarbell 
37  Nov.  23,  Thomas  Carter 

79  Nov.  24,  Humphrey  N.  Gould 
67  Dec.  9,  Walter  R.  Stearns 

84  Dec.  14,  Eva  E.  Brooks 

66  Dec.  18,  Aurelia  C.  Parker 


1902. 

75 
63 
74 
68 

75 


Aug.  2,  Elsie  M.  Sargent 
Aug.  8,  Hattie  D.  Murdo 
Oct.  23,  David  A.  Whittier 
Dec.  28,  Levi  P.  Hadley 


18 

45 
70 


47 
80 


74 
73 
83 
76 


90 

65 
74 
79 
81 
76 

83 
61 

73 

12 
27 

72 

54 
29 
81 
64 


1903. 

29  June  13,  Joseph  E.  Foster  57 

35  Aug.  18,  George  Rose  66 

77  Oct.  12,  Washington  Cummings  81 

86  Nov.  16,  Jonathan  Stephen  son  96 

67  Nov.  22,  Sarah  A.  Foster  69 

63  Nov.  24,  Laura  A.  Carson  51 

75  Dec.  17,  Maria  E.  Russell  75 
86 


645 


Jan.  i,  Mark  E.  Morse 
Jan.  18,  Charles  R.  Boutwell 
Jan.  23,  Addie  C.  Morse 
Jan.  24,  Catherine  Kendall 

Steele 

Feb.  20,  Betsey  A.  Wheeler 
Feb.  22,  George  S.  McAllister 
March  2,  Eliphalet  J.  Hardy 
March  17,  William  T.  Bowen 
April  28,  Mary  T.  Wheeler 

[at  Wilton] 
May  10,  Phebe  M.  Patch 


1904. 

60    June  4,  Edwin  Swasey  89 

57    June  20,  Minerva  Duncklee  78.4 

24.3    July  20,  Elizabeth  Rebecca 

Woodward     [at  Concord]          45 
102.8    Aug.  n,  John  E.  Bachelder  66 

75     Aug.  26,  George  E.  Swasey  47.1 

82     Oct.  2,  Allen  B.  Andrews  53.8 

74  [At  Francestown] 

34.3    Oct.  16,  Nelson  S.  Cram  37 

68.9  [At  Goffstown] 

Nov.  14,  Sarah  D.  Rand  76.10 

85-3 


THE  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH. 

Genealogies. 

PART  II. 


J-a.  <urv 


Preface. 

We  wish  to  acknowledge  the  valuable  aid  in  the  compiling  of 
these  ' '  family  registers, ' '  as  well  as  other  contributions  to  this 
history,  which  we  have  received  from  the  papers  of  John  H. 
Goodrich,  Esq.  No  other  family  in  town  is  so  rich  in  old  records 
and  papers  pertaining  to  the  early  history  of  L,yndeborough  as 
the  Goodrich  family.  To  these  papers  we  have  had  free  access. 

In  our  desire  and  search  for  dates  of  births,  deaths  and  mar- 
riages, we  have  been  received  with  unvarying  patience,  kind- 
ness and  courtesy  by  the  people  of  the  town.  Doubtless  we 
have  been  something  of  a  "  bore  "  at  times,  but  almost  every 
one  seemed  willing  to  help  the  cause  along. 

The  Cram  family  registers  were  obtained  through  the  enter- 
prise of  Mr.  lyUther  Cram.  They  were  revised  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Donovan.  All  we  had  to  do  with  them  was  to  copy  the  papers 
and  change  their  form  to  correspond  with  that  adopted  for  this 
history. 

Many  of  the  families  of  the  early  settlers  have  been  extinct  in 
town  for  fifty  or  more  years,  and  in  many  instances  it  was  only 
after  much  correspondence  with  town  clerks  and  postmasters 
that  we  were  able  to  get  any  trace  of  their  descendants.  Some- 
times we  were  able  to  secure  a  good  record,  in  other  cases  a  very 
imperfect  one. 

Some  families  now  living  in  town  depend  on  memory  for  all 
dates,  or,  in  other  words,  they  carry  their  family  record  in  their 
heads.  Sometimes  the  dates  in  the  family  Bible  do  not  agree 
with  those  in  the  town  records.  In  such  cases  the  family  Bible 
has  been  assumed  to  be  correct. 

Some  of  the  family  registers  have  been  revised  and  rewritten 
a  number  of  times.  Changes  had  to  be  made  each  year  in  the 
progress  of  the  work.  Under  such  circumstances  the  writer  is 
willing  to  confess  that  he  expects  errors  will  be  found. 

Nothing  in  the  foregoing,  however,  is  to  be  construed  as  an 
apology.  Where  one  has  done  the  best  he  could,  apologies  are 
not  in  order. 

Some  have  expended  time  and  pains  in  helping  the  writer  to 
secure  good  records  of  their  own  and  other  families.  To  all 
such  we  extend  our  heartfelt  thanks. 


650  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

As  the  names  of  families  are  arranged  in  alphabetical  order, 
no  index  is  necessary. 

The  plus  sign  (+)  after  a  name  indicates  that  the  name  will 
appear  again.  Other  abbreviations  used  are  :  b.  for  born,  d. 
for  died,  gen.  for  genealogy,  m.  for  married,  rem.  for  removed, 
and  res.  for  resides  or  resided. 

JACOB  A.  WOODWARD. 


Genealogies. 


ABBOTT. 


JEREMIAH  ABBOTT,  married  Susan  Baldwin.  They  were  the  first 
of  the  family  to  come  to  I/yndeborough.  Children  :  — 

1.  JONAS,  -|- 

2.  WlUJAM,  -f- 

JONAS  ABBOTT,  born  April  22,  1781 ;  married  Betsey  Parker  of  Car- 
lyle,  Mass.,  Jan.  15,  1807.  She  was  born  Sept.  27,  1781 ;  died  Dec.  8, 
1857.  He  died  Sept.  n,  1839.  He  came  to  I/yndeborough  from  Ch elms- 
ford,  Mass.,  in  1809,  and  settled  on  the  farm  where  Charles  Parker  after- 
ward lived.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  but  eldest :  — 

1.  EUZA,  b.  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  May  12,  1808,  m.  William 

Terrin  of  Boston,   March  14,   1832,   res.  in  Francestown, 
N.  H.,  d.  June  22,  1890. 

2.  JONAS  P.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Aug.  27,  1809,  m.  Ann  Cass 

of  New  Chester,  N.  H.,  April  9,  1837,  d.  July  18,  1867. 

3.  MARY  A.,  b.  March  30,  1811,  m.  Ithamar  Wright  of  Little- 

ton, Mass.,  June  19,  1841.     He  was  b.  April  10,  1809,  d. 
May  15,  1848. 

4.  RACHEI,  P.,  b.  Dec.   u,   1812,  m.  Manley  Kidder  of  Lynde- 

borough.     (See  Kidder  gen.) 

5.  JEREMIAH,  b.  April  3,  1815,  d.  Oct.  30,  1820. 

6.  HANNAH  W.,  b.  Sept.  2,  1817,  m.  Sewell  N.  Watson  of  Fay- 

ette,  Me.  Nov.  24,  1858.     He  was  b.  Aug.  8,  1808,  d.  Aug. 
26,  1886. 

7.  PRUDENCE,  b.  Sept.  2,  1819,  m.  Morris  Frye  of  Landsgrove, 

Vt.,  May  23,  1842.     He  was  b.  May  21,  1818,  d.  April  4, 
1900. 

8.  HEZEKIAH,  b.  April  26,  1822,  m.  Annett  Robins  of  Milford, 

June  i,  1858,  d.  Jan.  n,  1890. 

9.  WIUJAM,  b.  June  30,    1825,  d.  July  30,   1858. 

10.  EMH<Y,  b.   Nov.   21,    1827,    m.    Charles   L.   Avery.     (See 
Avery  gen.) 

11.  SUSAN,  b.  May  5,  1829,  d.  Aug.  18,  1830. 

WILUAM  ABBOTT,  born  Nov.  3,  1787;  married  Eunice,  daughter  of 
Uriah  and  Eunice  (Ellingwood)  Cram.  She  was  born  Aug.  31,  I786 1  died 
Feb.  29,  1868.  He  died  Jan.  14,  1824.  He  lived  in  a  house  that  used  to 
stand  on  land  southeast  of  the  Lucas  place,  and  not  far  away  from  that 
farm.  Nothing  but  a  cellar  hole  remains  there  now.  Children  :  — 


652  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

1.  lyYDiA  C.,  b.  June  5,  1809,  m.  David  Carkin.     (See  Carkin 

gen.) 

2.  WILLIAM    B.,  -}- 

3.  ABIGAIL  C.,  b.  Jan.  26,  1814,  m.  first,  James  Marshall,  m. 

second,  Capt.  Israel  Putnam. 

4.  CHARLES  D.,  b.  March  31,  1817,  d.  March  28,  1854. 

5.  HENRY  N.,  b.  Feb.    16,   1820,   d.  May  14,   1859.     He  was 

sometimes  known  as  Major  Abbott,  and  died  of  accidental 
gunshot  wound  in  right  arm. 

6.  CALVIN  A.,  -f- 

WILLIAM  B.  ABBOTT,  son  of  William  and  Eunice  (Cram)  Abbott; 
born  June  28,  1811;  married  Nancy  (Brown)  Boutwell.  He  died  in  De- 
cember, 1862. 

CALVIN  A.  ABBOTT,  son  of  William  and  Eunice  (Cram)  Abbott;  boru 
May  5, 1824  ;  married  Mary  J.  Boutwell ;  he  died  Oct.  23,  1868.  Children: — 

1.  EUNICE  A.,  b.  Oct.  26,  1854. 

2.  FRANK  D.,  b.  Aug.  10,  1856. 

3.  WILLIAM  H.,  b.  Aug.  31,  1858. 

AMES. 

BENJAMIN  B.  AMES  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Pelham  about  1865, 
and  settled  on  a  place  just  south  of  the  Deacon  Goodrich  place,  North 
Lyndeborough.  The  farm  is  on  the  turnpike  and  was  purchased  of  a  Mr. 

Odell.     He  married  first, Barker  of  Pelham;  married  second,  Jane, 

daughter  of  David  and  Miriam  (Durant)  Butterfield.     He  died   Dec.  8, 
1885.     She  died  April  22,  1900.     He  was  born  Jan.  13,  1812. 

AMES. 

DANIEL  AMES  lived  for  a  time  north  of  the  mountain.  His  first  wife 
was  Betsey  Jaquith  of  Greenfield.  She  died  March  20,  1864.  He  married 
second,  Mrs.  Joanna  Morgan  of  Wilton.  He  removed  to  Francestown  in 
1860,  where  he  died  June  4,  1877.  A.t  least  three  children  were  born  at 
Ivyndeborough :  — 

1.  DANIEL,  d.  Dec.  26,  1856. 

2.  HATTIE,  d.  April  17,  1860. 

3.  GEORGE,  m.  in  1870  Annie  Robinson,     She  d.  August,  1873. 

He  lived  for  a  time  in  I/owell,  Mass.,  but  owing  to  poor 
health  removed  to  Oakland,  Cal.,  where  he  died.  He  m.  a 
second  time  and  left  two  children  by  second  marriage. 

ATWOOD. 

JOHN  ATWOOD,  born  in  Boston  Feb.  16,  1693,  removed  to  Bradford, 
Mass.,  in  1716,  where  he  died.  He  married  Hannah  Bond  of  Haverhill, 
Mass.,  Oct.  28,  1715 ;  she  was  born  1696.  Their  fifth  child,  Joshua,  born 
3,  1723,  married  Mehitable  Seavey ;  she  was  born  Feb.  i,  1727;  died 
March  1 1 ,  1805.  He  died  July  8,  1809. 


GENEALOGIES  653 

PAUL  ATWOOD,  i2th  child  of  Joshua  and  Mehitable  (Seavey)  At- 
wood,  born  March  30,  1764;  married  May  22,  1786,  Judith  Stickney  of 
Pelham,  N.  H.  She  was  born  June  25,  1764 ;.  died  May  12,  1843.  He  died 
Oct.  20,  1852.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Pelham,  N.  H.,  and  set- 
tled at  North  Lyndeborough  and  carried  on  the  business  of  a  currier  in  a 
shop  opposite  his  house.  He  was  also  a  farmer.  Children : — 

1.  EUPHALET,  + 

2.  MARY,  b.  May  5,  1789,  lived  at  Pelham. 

3.  SARAH,  b.  May  15,  1791,  lived  at  Pelham. 

4.  JOSHUA,  b.  May  3,  1793,  d.  Sept.  27,  1841.     He  kept  a  store 

at  North  Lyndeborough,  was  justice  of  the  peace  and  se- 
lectman. 

5.  JOHN,  b,  June  20,  1795. 

6.  DAVID,  + 

7.  MOSES,  -f- 

8.  PAMELA,  b.  Sept.  26,  1803,  m.  Dea.  John  C.  Goodrich.  (See 

Goodrich  gen.) 

9.  MEHITABLE,  b,  Nov.  29,  1806. 

ELIPHALET  ATWOOD,  son  of  Paul  and  Judith  (Stickney)  Atwood ; 
born  Jan.  30,  1787  ;  married  first,  Feb.  25,  1813,  Sarah  Gould  of  Pelham. 
She  was  born  1791,  died  May  10,  1827.  Second,  Ann  Kidder,  Jan.  19, 
1828.  She  was  born  Aug.  27,  1791  ;  died  Oct.  8,  1863.  He  died  Dec.  4, 
1851.  He  lived  on  the  farm  where  Charles  H.  Bailey  now  lives,  and  died 
there.  Children  : — 

1.  AMANDA,  b.  Feb.  5,  1814. 

2.  HORATIO,  b.  July  4,  1816. 

3.  WARREN  J.,  b,  Feb.  28,  1819. 

DAVID  ATWOOD,  son  of  Paul  and  Judith  (Stickney)  Atwood,  born 
July  22,  1798,  married  first,  Nov.  5,  1822,  Martha  Campbell.  She  was 
born  Dec.  10,  1800 ;  died  Sept.  14,  1853.  Married  second,  May  5,  1856, 
Prudentia  B.  Oilman,  of  Lowell,  Mass.  She  was  born  Feb.  8,  1821 ;  died 
June  30,  1885.  He  died  at  Francestown  Oct.  2,  1874.  He  carried  on  the 
Town  Farm  in  Lyndeborough  the  first  year  after  it  was  bought  by  the 
town.  He  later  removed  to  Francestown.  Child  born  in  Lyndborough  : 

i.  AARON  HARDY,  b.  Dec.  2,  1823,  d.  Nov.  29,  1863.  Was 
a  physician  at  N.  L/yndeborough  and  later  at  Manchester. 
He  d.  at  Jetersville,  Va.,  during  the  Civil  War. 

DR.  MOSES  ATWOOD,  son  of  Paul  and  Judith  (Stickney)  Atwood, 
born  April  6,  1801  ;  married  first,  Nov.  24,  1835,  Mary  Lewis,  of  Frances- 
town.  She  was  born  July  i,  1808;  died  June  21,  1844;  married  second, 
May  5,  1846,  Julia  Ann  .Chickering  of  Amherst.  She  was  born  August  28, 
1815 ;  died  Feb.  4,  1889.  He  died  in  New  Boston,  April  28,  1850.  Dr. 
Atwood  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Israel  Herrick  of  Lyndeborough,  and 
Dr.  Luther  Farley  of  Francestown.  He  began  the  practice  of  medicine 


654  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

at  North  Lyndeborough  in  1827.  Until  1841  he  practiced  allopathy ;  in 
that  year  he  commenced  study  with  Dr.  Samuel  Gregg,  of  Boston,  and 
was  the  first  American  to  practice  homeopathy  in  New  Hampshire  and 
the  tenth  in  New  England.  As  a  physician  he  ranked  high  and  was 
much  esteemed  for  the  many  excellencies  of  his  character.  One  son, 
Luther  Farley  Atwood  of  Francestown. 

AVERY. 

CHARLES  L.  AVERY,  son  of  Solomon  and  Lavina  (Morse)  Avery, 
born  at  Lowell,  Mass.,  April  12,  1836;  m.  Dec.  8,  1858,  Emily,  daughter  of 
Jonas  and  Betsey  (Parker)  Abbott.  She  was  born  Nov.  21,  1827.  Solo- 
mon D.  Avery  and  Lavina  (Morse)  Avery,  his  wife,  were  long  residents 
of  Francestown  and  both  died  there.  Charles  L.  came  to  Lyndeborough 
about  1858  and  bought  the  Jonas  Abbott  farm,  North  Lyndeborough, 
where  he  has  since  lived.  Child : 

i.  HENRY  F.,  b.  Feb.  14,  1860,  m.  Jan.  15,  1891,  Mrs.  Etta 
N.  Adams,  daughter  of  George  and  Elvira  (Hutchinson) 
W bitfield  and  widow  of  Henry  D.  Adams.  Sbe  was  b. 
April  10,  1862. 

BACHELDER. 

Capt.  Nathaniel  Bachelder  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier  and  was  the 
first  settler  on  the  land  since  known  as  the  Paige  Spalding  place,  north 
of  the  mountain.  But  little  is  known  of  his  family  record.  He  had  one 
son,  Ward  C.  Bachelder,  who  was  choked  to  death  by  a  piece  of  meat  he 
was  trying  to  eat.  This  happened  at  Merrimack  in  March,  1795.  He 
had  gone  there  to  bring  the  household  goods  of  some  one  moving  to 
Lyndeborough.  The  town  records  contain  nothing  about  the  family  of 
Nathaniel.  He  was  buried  in  the  Whittemore  burial  place,  North  Lynde- 
borough. The  headstone  has  been  broken  by  vandal  hands  into  small 
fragments,  but  by  piecing  them  together  it  was  learned  that  he  was 
born  in  1721  and  died  in  1784.  Evidence  tends  to  show  that  Joseph 
Bachelder,  who  had  a  large  family  of  children  born  in  Lyndeborough, 
was  a  brother  of  Capt.  Nathaniel. 

JOSEPH  BACHELDER.  Children  of  Joseph  Bachelder  and  Sarah, 
his  wife  : 

1.  JOSEPH,  b.  Feb.  22,  1770. 

2.  NATHANIEL,  b.  Jan.  10,  1772. 

3.  ISAAC,  b.  Oct.  8,  1774,  d.  Jan.  n,  1775. 

4.  ANNA,  b.  Sept.  30,  1775,  d.  Jan.  22,  1777. 

5.  ISAACZ,  b.  March  i,  1779. 

6.  ALPHAS,  b.  Aug.  7,  1781. 

7.  ABIGAIL,  b.  Nov'.  2,  1783. 

8.  SARAH,  b.  Feb.  9,  1785. 

9.  WILLIAM,  b.  July  15,  1788. 


GENEALOGIES  655 

BADGER. 

But  little  can  be  found  of  the  record  of  the  Badger  family.  The  story 
of  John  Badger,  the  early  settler  of  Salem-Canada,  is  pretty  fully 
told  in  a  preceding  chapter.  His  son  David  was  the  first  settler  on  the 
land  now  owned  by  James  H.  Karr,  and  Badger  Pond  received  its  name 
from  him.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Congregational  church.  Stephen 
Badger,  his  son,  transferred  his  property  to  the  town  and  made  his 
home  at  the  town  farm,  where  he  died.  Robert  Badger  was  the  first 
settler  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Harry  J.  Richardson.  The  family  has 
been  extinct  in  town  for  some  years,  but  they  are  to  be  noted  as  the  first 
settlers  on  the  land  north  of  the  pond.  The  two  brothers  settled  here  as 
early  as  1760. 

DEA.  DAVID  BADGER,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (McFarland)  Badger; 
married  Rachel .  He  died  May  15,  1783.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  b.  Oct.  7,  1764. 

2.  DAVID,  b.  May  28,    1766,  rera.  to  Conway  about  1825,  m. 

Harriet  Clemmons. 

3.  L,YDiA,  b.  Sept.  3,  1767. 

4.  STEPHEN,  b.   March.  20,   1769,  m.  .     Child:    Mary,  b. 

Oct.  21,  1821,  m.  Abram  Boutwell. 

5.  HANNAH,  b.  Dec.  19,   1770,  m.  Ephraim  Woodward.     (See 

Woodward  gen.) 

6.  SARAH,  b.  Aug.  19,  1772,  d.  March  30,  1863,  aged  90  years. 

7.  ANNA,  b.  Oct.  27,  1774,  m.  -    -  Day,  rem.  to  Otsego,  N.Y., 

d.  in  1857. 

8.  DANIEL,  b.  Juhy  21,  1776. 

9.  JOSEPH,  b.  Feb.  i,  1778. 

10.  RUFUS,  b.  July  3,  1780,  m.  Olive  Fuller. 

ROBERT  BADGER,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (McFarland)  Badger;  mar- 
ried Hannah .  He  died  March  i,  1792.  Children:  — 

1.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Sept.  7,  1763. 

2.  RUTH,  b.  Dec.  25,  1765. 

3.  ELIPHALET,  b.  Jan.  20,   1768,  m.  Huldah .     One  child 

recorded:  Eliphalet,  b.  Oct.  23,  1796. 

4.  MARY,  b.  June  7,  1771. 

5.  RACHEL,  b.  Aug.  19,  1772. 

6.  ROBERT,  b.  April  19,  1775. 

7.  REBECCA,  b.  March  10,  1777. 

8.  IRENE,  b.  Jan.  20,  1781. 

9.  SAMUEL  PATTEN,  -f- 

SAMUEL   P.  BADGER,  son  of  Robert  and   Hannah,  born   May  26, 

1783  ;  married .     Children  :  — 

i.  &  2.  ROXANNA  and  HANNAH  (twins),  b.  Jan.  20,  1809. 


656  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

3.  MARY,  b.  Oct.  28,  1810. 

4.  ROBERT,  b.  Oct.  25,  1812. 

5.  HUGH,  b.  Oct.  25,  1814. 

6.  ELIZA,  b.  Dec.  4,  1815. 

7.  SAMUEL  P.,  b.  Feb.  18,  1819. 

8.  SARAH  J.,  b.  Aug.  23,  1821. 

BAILEY. 

LEVI  P.  BAILEY  was  the  son  of  Solomon  and  Betsey  (Abercrombie) 
Bailey  of  Jay,  Vt.  He  was  born  Jan.  21,  1819,  at  Jay  ;  married,  Dec.  18, 
1840,  Hannah,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Lydia  (Senter)  Morse.  She  was 
born  at  Francestown,  Feb.  i,  1817.  He  died  April  i,  1895.  He  was  a 
stone  mason  by  trade  and  lived  at  times  in  Francestown,  Mont  Vernon, 
Wilton, —  wherever  his  work  called  him.  He  lived  on  the  Osborne  place, 
North  Lyndeborough,  and  died  there.  Children  :  — 

1.  WILLIAM,  b.  at  Mason,  July  4,  1841,  d.  at  Wilton,  Jan.  1.9, 

1883.     He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.   (See  Chap.  X.) 

2.  MARCUS  M.,  b.  at  Bedford,  Oct.  14,  1842,  m.  April  18,  1868, 

Nellie  M.  Thompson  of  Antrim.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 
War.  ( See  Chap.  X.) 

3.  CHARLES  H.,  -f- 

4.  AMANDA  R.,  b.  at  Lowell,  March  31,  1847,  m.  July  28,  1869, 

Richard  C.  Woodward  of  Francestown. 

5.  ALONZO  P.,  b.  at  West  Newton,   Mass.,  Feb.  15,   1849,  m. 

Sept.  n,  1875,  Sarah  J.  Woodward  of  Francestown. 

6.  HIRAM  S.,  b.  at  Nashua,  April  15,  1851,  m.  March  27,  1875, 

Mary  J.  Woodward  of  Francestown.  Children:  Fred  H., 
b.  at  Lyndeborough,  Aug.  19,  1875,  Walter  S.,  b.  at  An- 
trim, Nov.  14,  1876. 

7.  LEVI  E-,  b.  at  Lawrence,  Mass.,  Aug.  3,  1855,  m.  Dec.  16, 

1882,  Mary  J.  Manahan  of  Francestown. 

CHARLES  H.  BAILEY,  son  of  Levi  P.  and  Hannah  (Morse)  Bailey; 
born  at  Lowell,  Mass.,  Dec.,  1844;  married  Sept.  18,  1869,  Abby  Quint  of 
Great  Falls.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War,  serving  with  the  Lafay- 
ette Artillery  at  Portsmouth.  Child :  — 

i.  CHARLES  A.,  + 

CHARLES  A.  BAILEY,  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Abbie  (Quint)  Bailey; 
born  at  Wilton,  Nov.  26,  1869;  married,  Nov.  27,  1894,  Susie,  daughter  of 
George  R.  and  Olive  M.  (Lovejoy)  Barnes.  She  was  born  Nov.  26,  1876. 
Children:  — 

1.  GOLDIE,  b.  March  13,  1895,  d-  Sept.  29,  1895. 

2.  GUY  B.,  b.  March  22,  1896. 

3.  CHARLES  A.,  b.  June  15,  1898. 

4.  ELWIN  G.,  b.  April  27,  1902. 

Many  of  the  Bailey  family  were  good  musicians. 


GENEALOGIES  657 

BALCH. 

JOHN  J.  BALCH,  born  June  27,  1804 ;  married  Abigail  Mudgett  of 
Weare,  who  was  born  May  14,  1810.  Mr.  Balch  died  of  pneumonia, 
March  10,  1879.  His  wife,  surviving  a  few  days,  died  of  the  same  disease, 
March  16,  1879.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Weare  in  1862.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  JOHN  W.,  b.  Sept.  10,  1828,  d.  March  4,  1879. 

2.  MOSES  M.,  b.  Sept.   n,  1831,  m.  Harriet  E.  Stiles,  res.  in 

New  Ipswich. 

3.  MARY   E.,  b.  July  17,    1842,   m.  David  G.  Dickey.      (See 

Dickey  gen.) 

BARDEN. 

AMOS  W.  BARDEN,  son  of  Jonas  and  Betsey  (Whitney)  Barden  ;  born 
Jan.  5,  1848  ;  married  Nov.  30,  1879,  Emma  S.,  daughter  of  George  B.  and 
Mary  J.  (Clark)  Woodward  of  Francestown.  She  was  born  June  6,  1851 ; 
settled  on  the  Ordway  place  on  the  mountain ;  later  removed  to  South 
Lyndeborough. 

BARNES. 

GEORGE  R.  BARNES,  son  of  Daniel  H.  and  Sarah  (Damon)  Barnes ; 
born  Dec.  12,  1837  ;  married  April  i,  1865,  Olive,  daughter  of  James  M. 
and  Louisa  (Vanscoyt)  Lovejoy.  She  was  born  Dec.  7,  1846,  in  Clinton, 
Ind.  He  was  born  at  North  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  and  came  to  Lyndebor- 
ough  in  1875,  and  bought  the  Twitchell  place,  North  Lyndeborough,  re- 
moving thence  in  1886  to  the  Parker  Hotel  stand  on  the  turnpike,  where 
he  has  since  lived.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barnes  have  been  in  demand  as  musi- 
cians. Children :  — 

1.  MINNIE  B.,  b.  Jan.  3,  1866,  m.  Lester  B.  Walton  of  Danvers, 

Mass. 

2.  ROBERT  E.,    b.    March    15,    1867,    m.    Adaline   Havens  of 

Moodus,  Conn.,  res.  at  Hartford,  Conn. 

3.  GEORGE  A.,  b.  Nov.  i,  1869,  m.  Hattie  Ardell  of  Wakefield, 

Mass.,  res.  at  Lynn,  Mass. 

4.  SUSIE,  b.  Nov.  26,   1876,  at  Lyndeborough,  m.  Charles  A. 

Bailey.     (See  Bailey  gen.) 

BARRON. 

CAPT.  WILLIAM  BARRON.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  more  is  not 
known  of  the  ancestry  of  Capt.  William  Barren.  He  was  probably  the 
first  settler  on  the  land  now  owned  by  Frank  B.  Tay.  He  kept  a  tavern 
there  just  before  and  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  which  tavern  was 
the  meeting  place  of  the  business  men  of  the  town,  where  they  discussed 
over  a  mug  of  "flip"  the  various  enterprises  and  political  affairs  of  the 
community.  He  was  chosen  deacon  of  the  church,  and  his  name  appea 
very  frequently  in  the  old  records  and  papers  of  his  time.  He  was  a  Rev- 


658  HISTORY  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH  f 

olutionary  soldier,  and  was  much  interested  in  the  up-building  of  the 
town.  His  wife,  Olive  Johnson,  may  have  been  a  relative  of  the  John- 
sons of  Johnson  Corner  ;  but  of  that  there  is  no  record. 

Capt.  William  Barren,  born  1737 ;  married  Olive  Johnson ;  she  died 
May  23,  1815;  he  died  Aug.  28,  1805.  Children:  — 

1.  OLIVE,  b.  Feb.  17,  1765,  m.  Nov.  30,  1784,  John,  son  of  Dea. 

Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Cram)  Putnam.     (See  Putnam  gen.) 

2.  RUTH,  b.  May  23,  1768. 

3.  SARAH,  b.  May  24,   1771,  m.  Dec.  20,   1787,  William  Clark 

of  L/yndeborough.     (See  Clark  gen.) 

4.  JONATHAN,    b.    Mar.    27,    1774,    drowned  in   Badger   Pond 

Thanksgiving  Day,  Nov.  21,  1793. 

5.  L/UCY,  b.  June  23,  1781,  m.  Thomas  Boardman. 

Transcripts  from  town  records  :  — 
ELIZABETH,  dau.  of  Micah  Barron  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  b. 

Nov.  17,  1783. 

WILLIAM,  son  of  do.,  b.  Sept.  28,  1785,  d.  Aug.  8,  1786. 
WILLIAM,  son  of  do.,  b.  June  23,  1787. 

ALICE,  dau.  of  Nathan  Barron  and  Alice  his  wife,  b.  Aug.  2, 

1774,  d.  Aug.  18,  1777. 

NATHAN,  son  of  do.,  b.  June  14,  1776. 

NATHAN  BARRON  died  May  12,  1777.  Micah  and  Nathan  are  pre- 
sumably brothers  of  Capt.  William  Barron.  Nathan's  widow  Alice 
afterward  married  Capt.  Jonas  Kidder. 

BATCHEIyDER. 

JACOB  BATCHELDER  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Reading,  Mass. 
His  wife  was  Nabby  Thompson  of  Reading.  He  died  in  1814.  Children: — 

1.  JACOB,  -f- 

2.  EMERSON,  -f- 

JACOB  BATCHELDER,  son  of  Jacob  and  Nabby  (Thompson)  Batch- 
elder,  born  at  Townsend,  Mass.,  in  1806 ;  married  Almira  Smith  of  Wal- 
tham,  Mass.  She  was  born  July  28,  1807,  and  died  Jan.  25,  1888.  He 
died  Dec.  5,  1880.  Children,  born  at  Waltham,  Mass.:  — 

1.  ELEANOR,  b.  1835. 

2.  EMILY,  b.  Nov.  29,  1839. 

3.  ADDIE, 

4.  CHARLES,  d.  Nov.  15,  1880. 

EMERSON  BATCHELDER,  son  of  Jacob  and  Nabby  (Thompson) 
Batchelder,  born  in  Townsend,  Mass.,  March  i,  1808 ;  married  first,  Cath- 
erine Smith  of  Amherst.  She  died  Feb.  9,  1839 ;  married  second,  Han- 
nah, daughter  of  John  and  Ruth  (Southwick)  Proctor.  She  was  born 
Feb.  7,  1808  ;  died  Jan.  7,  1887.  He  died  July  22,  1880.  Children  by  first 
wife  :  — 


GENEALOGIES  659 

1.  JOHN  E.,  + 

2.  CATHERINE,  born  Oct.  17,  1838,  m.  Jan.  3,  1859,  Alfred  Sav- 

age .of  Greenfield.     She  died  July,  1866. 

Child:    Emma  M.,  b.  March  14,  1860,  d.  Dec.  i,  1873. 
Child  by  second  wife  :  — 

4.  HENRY  M.,  b.  May  9,   1844.     Disappeared,  and  nothing  is 
known  of  him  here. 

JOHN  E.  BATCHELDER,  son  of  Emerson  and  Catherine  (Smith) 
Batchelder  ;  born  June  14,  1836 ;  married  May  29,  1864,  Lucy  A.  Baker  of 
Damariscotta,  Me.  She  was  born  Aug.  22,  1840  ;  died  Feb.  8,  1885  ;  mar- 
ried second,  Mrs.  Sarah  M.  Moore  of  Warwick,  Me.,  April  3,  1888.  She 
was  born  Oct.  18,  1839.  He  died  Aug.  n,  1904.  Mr.  Batchelder  resided 
in  "  Perham  Corner,"  and  was  a  well  known  fruit  grower,  making  a  spec- 
ialty of  grapes,  although  he  raised  large  quantities  of  berries  and  apples. 
He  was  an  energetic,  prosperous  farmer.  He  never  aspired  to  public 
office,  but  was  highly  respected  and  esteemed  in  the  town.  Children  by 
first  wife :  — 

•  i.  GEORGE  E.,  b.  in  Susanville,  Cal.,  Sept.  8,  1865. 

2.  CARRIE  L/.,  b.  in  Susanville,  Cal.,  Sept.  20,  1867,  m.  Oct.  8, 

1889,  Edwin  M.  Parker  of  Milford. 

3.  CHARLES  J.,  -+- 

CHARLES  J.   BATCHELDER.   son   of  John   E.   and    Lucy  (Baker) 
Batchelder;  born  July  17,  1877  ;  married  Jan.  25,  1899,  Nellie  M.,  daugh- 
ter of  Freeman  and  Annie  (Hutchinson)  Bugbee.     Children  :  — 
i  and  2.  DONALD  and  DOROTHY  F.,  b.  Sept.  28,  1903. 

BELL> 

ROBERT  W.  BELL,  married  Abby  L.  F.,  daughter  of  William  B.  and 
Ann  (Boutwell)  Raymond,  Sept.  17,  1870.  She  was  born  March  3,  1852; 
died  Aug.  30,  1875.  Children :  — 

1.  WILLIE  E.,  b.  July  13,  1871  ;  died  March  4,  1884. 

2.  LIZZIE  A.,  b.  March  3,    1875,   m.  George  D.  Long.     (See 

Lyong  gen.) 

BISHOP. 

FRANK  J.  BISHOP,  born  in  Stoddard  Jan.  14,  1856;  married  Ida  B., 
daughter  of  Joseph  A.  and  Mary  L.  (Stephenson)  Johnson,  May  14,  1877. 
She  was  born  July  4,  1859.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  CARL  J.,  b.  Aug.  4,  1884. 

2.  RAY  P.,  b.  April  3,  1889. 

BIXBY. 

OLIVER  BIXBY,  sou  of  Thomas  and  Rebecca  (Holmes)  Bixby,  born 
March  27,  1796  ;  married  first,  Abigail,  daughter  of  David  and  Mary  C. 
(Jones)  Farrington,  Nov.  13,  1823.  She  was  born  March  21,  1803,  and 


660  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

died  Feb.  12,  1838  ;  second,  Huldah  Farrington,  Nov.  13,  1839.  She  was 
a  sister  of  his  first  wife  and  was  born  Dec.  18,  1811,  and  died  June  2,  1884. 
He  died  at  Hillsborough,  Feb.  27,  1879. 

Thomas,  the  father  of  Oliver,  was  the  youngest  of  four  brothers,  all  of 
whom  settled  in  Francestown.  In  the  war  of  the  Revolution  he  was  a 
lieutenant  in  Capt.  Carson's  company,  and  was  at  the  Battle  of  Bunker 
Hill,  and  afterward  endured  the  suffering  and  privation  of  Valley  Forge. 
He  was  twice  married,  and  Oliver  was  the  seventh  child  of  the  first  mar- 
riage. He  was  born  at  Francestown,  but  came  to  Lyndeborough  when 
quite  a  young  man,  and  soon  thereafter  bought  the  place  at  the  Centre 
known  since  as  the  Bixby  place,  where  Edward  Warren  now  lives.  He 
was  postmaster  for  some  years,  and  also  kept  the  village  store.  He  was 
a  farmer  and  general  trader,  and  was  much  esteemed  for  his  unfailing 
good  humor  and  genial  ways.  He  removed  to  Hillsborough,  where  he 
died.  Children  by  first  wife,  all  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  MARY  J.,  b.  Aug.  23,  1824,  d.  Aug.  21,  1835,  at  Amherst. 

2.  DAVID  F.,  b.  Aug.  i,  1826,  d.  in  1856  at  Surinam,  S.  A. 

3.  AUGUSTA,  b.  Sept.  30,  1827,  m.  Sidney  Gage  of  Wilton,  d. 

Nov.  17,  1890,  at  Nashua. 

4.  THOMAS,  b.  Dec.  14,  1829,  d.  Oct.  19,  1849,  at  New  Orleans, 

La. 

5.  OLIVER  H.,  b.  June  29,  1837,  m.  Sarah  E.  Clement  of  War- 

ren, N.  H.,  d.  Dec.  19,  1897,  at  Boston. 
Children  by  second  wife,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

6.  L/EVI  W.,  b.  March  22,  1845,  m.  L/ydia  A.  Burtt  of  Hillsbor- 

ough,   Dec.    17,   1877,   d.   at   Hillsborough,   May  i,    1893. 
Children  :  Helen  A.  and  Caroline  C.,  b.  at  Hillsborough. 

7.  MARY  C.,  b.  June  23,  1849,  res.  at  Hillsborough. 

8.  HARRY  A.,  b.  June  12,  1851,  d.  Feb.  26,  1852. 

BLANCHARD. 

LIEUT.  JOTHAM  BLANCHARD,  the  ancestor  of  one  of  the  Blanchard 
families  in  Lyndeborough,  came  from  Billerica,  Mass.,  and  settled  in 
that  part  of  the  town  now  known  as  Perham  Corner.  He  was  born  in 
1751  and  probably  came  here  soon  after  the  Revolutionary  War.  He 

married  Abigail  and  doubtless  two  of   his  sons  came  here  with 

him,  Asa  and  Jotham,  Jr.  The  family  all  owned  farms  in  the  above- 
named  section  of  the  town.  Lieut.  Jotham  died  Feb.  16,  1832  ;  Abigail, 
his  wife,  died  July  30,  1818.  She  was  born  in  1756. 

ASA  BLANCHARD,  son  of  Lieut.  Jotham  and  Abigail  Blanchard, 
born  1776;  married  Sybil  Pierce  of  Wilmington,  Mass.  She  was  born 
1775,  and  died  at  Lyndeborough  Oct.  15,  1815.  He  died  March  17,  1810. 
Children  born  at  Lyndeborough  : — 

1.  ASA,  -f- 

2.  ANN,  b.  April  i,  1803,  m.  March  29,  1825,  Rufus  Crosby  of 

Billerica,  Mass.     They  removed  to  Milford,  where  she  died 


GENEALOGIES  661. 

March  19,  1879.  They  had  seven  children,  the  eldest  of 
whom,  Mary  Ann,  m.  William  W.  Howard. 

3.  BRADLEY,  b.   May  6,  1805,  m.   first,  Almira  Stearns.     She 

d.  Feb.  28,  1827,  m.  second,  Mary  M.  Bowers  of  Concord, 
Mass.  He  d.  at  Milford,  Oct.  15,  1893.  They  had  seven 
children. 

4.  MARY,  b.  April  15,  1807,  m.  Jacob  Woodward.     (See  Wood- 

ward gen.) 

5.  SYBIL  P.,  b.  1811,  d.  Oct.  8,  1884,  unmarried. 

ASA  BLANCHARD,  son  of  Asa  and  Sybil  (Pierce)  Blanchard,  born 
April  3,  1801;  married  April  20,  1826,  Elizabeth  Goodwin,  born  March  4, 
1802 ;  died  March  2,  1893.  He  died  Sept.  6,  1845.  Children  born  at 
Lyndeborough  : — 

1.  ELMIRA,    b,    March   3,    1827,  m.    March    21,    1847,    Frank 

Howard. 

2.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Sept.  19,  1829,  m.  Charles  G.  Hatch.     (See 

Hatch  gen.) 

3.  ASA,  b.  Aug.  14,   1831,  m.  Mary  R.  Spaulding  of  Wilton, 

He  d.  June  8,  1874. 

4.  MARY  ANN,  b.  Jan.  5,   1835,  m.  Nov.  26,  1857,  Rufus  P. 

Chase  of  Newburyport,  Mass.  He  was  b.  April  i,  1835, 
d.  Dec.  7,  1876.  Children:  Lilly  F.,  b.  at  Worcester, 
Mass.,  March  25,  1860,  d.  Dec.  9,  1864;  Frank  M.,  b.  at 
Worcester,  Mass.,  Jan.  25,  1862,  d.  Aug.  2,  1863;  Harry 
R.,  b.  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  Nov.  3,  1865  ;  Homer  F.,  b.  at 
Worcester,  Mass.,  Aug.  9,  1869. 

5.  SYBIL  P.,  b.  Oct.  6,  1838,  m.  George  W.  Parker  of  Lynde- 

borough.    (See  Parker  gen.) 

6.  CAROLINE,  b.  Jan.  26,  1840,  m.  Dec.  26,  1862,  George  Jen- 

nison,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

7.  ELIZA  J.,  b.  Nov.  22,  1843,  m.  Feb.  26,   1878,  Gilbert  A. 

Heald  of  Milford. 

JOTHAM  BLANCHARD,  son  of  Lieut.  Jotham  and  Abigail  Blanchard, 
born  1774;  married  Amy  Smith,  born  1784;  died  Feb.  21,  1868.  He  died 
Jan.  21,  1847.  Children  born  at  Lyndeborough  : — 

1.  DANIEL,  b.  July  15,  1798. 

2.  LUCINDA,  b.  Sept.  n,  1800,  m.  Daniel  Holt  of  Milford. 

3.  CHARLES,  b.  March  13,  1803. 

4.  FREDERICK,  b.  Oct.  8,  1805. 

5.  CYRUS,  b.  Nov.  3,  1808. 

6.  JOTHAM,  b.  April  19,  1811. 

7.  ASA,  b.  June  12,  1813. 


662  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

BLANCHARD. 

The  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Blanchard  family  of  America  was  of 
Huguenot  extraction. 

Amaziah  Blanchard,  son  of  Simon  and  Catharine  Wyman  Blanchard, 
was  born  at  Milford,  Nov.  27,  1782;  married  Aug.  26,  1807,  Mary  Damon 
of  Amherst.  She  was  born  Sept.  10,  1785.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  in 
1811,  and  bought  the  place  where  Asher  Curtis  now  lives.  He  ran  in 
debt  for  the  whole  of  the  purchase  price,  which  was  considered  in  those 
days  a  rather  hazardous  venture.  He  used  to  make  molasses  hogsheads, 
and  haul  them  to  Boston,  sixty  miles,  with  an  ox  team,  sell  them  and  re- 
turn, with  the  fear  of  robbers  always  present,  if  his  journey  kept  him  on 
the  road  after  nightfall,  especially,  as  the  notorious  Stephen  Burroughs 
sometimes  invaded  the  lonely  road  between  Milford  and  Nashua.  How- 
ever, the  times  improved  after  the  War  of  1812,  and  he  paid  for  his 
farm.  Children  :  — 

1.  CALVIN,  b.  Sept.  4,  1808,  + 

2.  EDWIN  A.,  b.  March  14,  1811. 

3.  ANNA  D.,  b.  June  9,  1813. 

4.  SOPHIA  N.,  b.  Feb.  4,  1817,  -j- 

5.  HARRIET  N.,  b.  March  4.  1819. 

6.  RUFUS,  b.  March  7,  1821,  -f- 

7.  FRANCES,  b.  Sept.  22,  1823. 

RUFUS  BLANCHARD,  son  of  Amaziah  and  Mary  (Damon)  Blanchard, 
was  a  man  of  considerable  literary  ability,  as  was  also  Calvin.  Rufus  re- 
moved to  the  west,  settling  in  Chicago,  111.,  where  he  died  in  1902  or 
1903.  He  was  the  author  of  the  following  maps  and  books  :  "  The  His- 
torical Map  of  the  United  States  "  ;  a  book  entitled  "  The  Discovery  and 
Conquests  of  the  Northwest,  with  a  History  of  Chicago  "  ;  a  romance  in 
verse  entitled,  "  Abraham  Lincoln  The  Type  of  American  Genius  "  ; 
"  History  of  the  State  of  Illinois  "  ;  "  Rise  and  Fall  of  Political  Parties  in 
the  United  States"  ;  "  The  Historical  Geography  of  North  America  "  ;  a 
romance,  now  in  manuscript  not  yet  published,  descriptive  of  American 
characteristics. 

CALVIN  BLANCHARD,  his  brother,  wrote  the  "Life  of  Thomas 
Payne,"  and  a  book  entitled  "The  Science  of  Religion."  He  was  also 
author  of  several  pamphlets  on  "  Natural  Religion."  He  published  the 
works  of  Thomas  Payne,  "Volney,"  part  of  Voltaire's  works,  Stearns' 
"  Life  of  Jesus,"  and  a  large  number  of  books  on  similar  subjects.  He 
was  a  leading  member  of  the  "  Payne  Society  "  in  New  York,  and  an  in- 
timate friend  of  Horace  Greeley,  the  two  having  been  journeyman  print- 
ers together. 

SOPHIA  BLANCHARD  OLSEN  was  the  author  of  a  poem  written  on 
the  great  Chicago  fire  of  1871,  which  was  highly  esteemed  by  literary 
critics.  She  also  wrote  several  other  pamphlets,  and  was  a  contributor 
to  various  magazines  and  newspapers. 

JOSEPH  BLANCHARD,  son  of  Luther  and  Mary  (Kinson)  Blanchard, 
born  in  Milford,  Nov.  16,  1829  I  married  Oct.  28,  1852,  Rhoda,  daughter  of 


GENEALOGIES  663 

Nathan  and  Sally  (Draper)  Fish.  She  was  born  Jan.  15,  1835.  He  came 
to  Lyndeborough  in  1856  ;  resides  in  South  Lyndeborough ;  has  taken 
great  interest  in  military  matters,  and  was  captain  of  the  Lafayette  Ar- 
tillery from  1894  to  1896.  (See  Chap.  VIII.)  Children  :  — 

1.  FRANCENIA,  b.  in  Wilton  Aug.  13,  1853,  d.  July  2,  1858. 

2.  SARAH  A.,  b.  in  Temple  Jan.  21,  1856. 

3.  CARRIE  F.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough  Aug.  i,  1862,  m.  Oct.  26, 

1881,  Adna  A.  Page  of  Lebanon,  res.  in  Woburn,  Mass. 

4.  ELMER  J.,  b.  June  14,  1876,  m.  Feb.  14,  1900,  Ella  M.,  dau. 

of  ; Daniel  A.  and  Mary  M.  (Hoyt)  Colby  of  Francestown. 
She  was  b.  Sept.  6,  1874. 

BLANEY. 

CAPTAIN  WILLIAM  BLANEY.  Among  the  early  comers  to  Lynde- 
borough was  William  Blaney  and  Ruth  S.,  his  wife.  He  is  said  to  have 
been  a  sea  captain,  and  was  probably  a  relative  of  Maj.  Joseph  Blaney, 
one  of  the  original  proprietors.  Children  :  — 

1.  WILLIAM,  b.  April  18,  1773. 

2.  CHRISTOPHER,  b.  Feb.  27,  1776. 

3.  STEPHEN,  b.  1786. 

4.  BETHIA,  b.  1789. 

5.  SUSANNA,  b.  1790. 

6.  GRACE,  b.  1794. 

7.  NANCY,  b.  Nov.  8,  1797. 

BOARDMAN. 

The  name  was  Boreman  in  England  and  originated  from  the  knight 
who  came  into  England  from  Normandy  with  William  the  Conqueror  in 
1066.  He  had  lost  a  hand  and  had  in  its  place  a  wooden  substitute.  His 
name  was  William  and  he  was  called  William  la  de  Bois  de  Main  (sic)  or 
William  of  the  Wooden  Hand.  The  name  became  in  time  Boreman  and 
thence  Boardman.  Thomas  Boardman  was  a  descendant  of  William  Bore- 
man  of  Banbury,  England.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  in  1750. 

THOMAS  BOARDMAN  was  born  1749;  died  Dec.  10,  1836.  He  mar- 
ried first,  Ann  Noyes  of  Newburyport,  Mass.;  second,  Hannah  Brown, 
who  was  born  1748,  and  died  Aug.  12,  1818.  Thomas  Boardman  came  to 
Lyndeborough  from  Ipswich,  Mass.,  aud  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned 
by  Erwin  D.  Wilder.  Children  :  — 

1.  HANNAH,  b.  June  29,  1776,  m.  in  1798,  Aaron  Lewis.     (See 

Lewis  gen.) 

2.  THOMAS,  + 

3.  DANIEL  N.,  -f- 

4.  JOHN,  b.  1780,  d.  in  Francestown,  Nov.  25,  1810. 

THOMAS  BOARDMAN,  son  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  (Brown)  Board- 
man  ;  married  Lucy,  daughter  of  William  and  Olive  Barren,  born  June  23, 
1781.  She  died  Oct.  20,  1857.  Children  :  — 


664  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

1.  JOHN,  d.  in  infancy. 

2.  MICAH    BARRON,    b.    Dec.    21,     1806,    rein,    to    Frances- 

town. 

3.  FRANCIS,  b.  Nov.   10,    1811,  m.  in  1831,  Sarah  E.,  dau.  of 

the  Rev.  Moses  Bradford  of  Francestown. 

4.  L/UCY,  b.  Nov.  28,  1817,  m.  John  Huntington. 

5.  SARAH,  b.  March  27,  1820,  m.  John  H.   Patch  of  Frances- 

town,  d.  at  Webster,  Mass.,  Feb.  4,  1883. 

DANIEL  N.  BOARDMAN,  son  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  (Brown)  Board- 
man,  born  Feb.  7,  1792;  married  first,  Abigail  Fuller  of  Francestown, 
Oct.  10,  1817.  She  was  born  April  28,  1795,  and  died  Dec.  7,  1818;  mar- 
ried second,  Jan.  24,  1822,  Olive,  daughter  of  Oliver  and  Hannah  (Marshall) 
Whiting.  She  was  born  Jan  .  24,  1800.  She  was  married  twice  after  the 
death  of  Mr.  Boardman,  first  to  Abner  Pettee  of  Francestown ;  second, 
Samuel  Dennis  of  Jasper,  N.  Y.  She  died  Sept.  16,  1860.  Daniel  N.  Board- 
man  died  July  2,  1849.  He  was  a  man  who  had  great  influence  in  town 
affairs  in  his  day,  and  held  many  offices  of  trust,  and  it  is  said  fulfilled 
their  duties  with  fidelity  and  honesty.  He  lived  where  Erwin  D.  Wilder 
lives  now.  He  was  representative  to  the  General  Court  in  1840  and  1841, 
and  was  selectman  for  nine  years.  Children  :  — 

1.  ABIGAIL,,  b.  March  3,   1823,  m.  Frank  B.  Dennis,  July  i, 

1850. 

2.  SON,  b.  Jan.  i,  1825,  d.  Jan.  2,  1825. 

3.  OLIVE,  b.  Nov.  7,  1825,  d.  1826. 

4.  DANIEL  M.,  b.  July  28,   1827,  m.  May  n,  1859,  Mehitable 

Allen. 

5.  L/ANGLEY  J.,   b.   March  21,    1830,   m.  first,  June  26,   1859, 

Martha  Storrs,  m.  second,  July  4,  1878,  A.  Cochran.  She 
was  b.  Oct.  17,  1848.  He  removed  to  Manchester  in  1849. 
In  1 86 1  he  entered  government  employ  in  the  South,  re- 
maining there  four  years.  He  returned  to  Manchester  and 
entered  the  Amoskeag  Mills,  where  he  remained  until  he 
died,  May  10,  1903. 

6.  SON,  b.  Jan.  7,  1833,  d.  Jan.  7,  1833. 

7.  ANSTIS  E.,  b.  Oct.   8,    1834,  m.  June  17,   1859,   S.   Porter 

Marsh. 

8  and  9.  TWIN  boy  and  girl  died  in  infancy. 
10.  OLIVE  A.,    b.    May   3,    1839,    m.    Oct.    31,    1861,    Judson 

Sargent. 

BOFFEE. 

MELCHIZEDECK  BOFFEE  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Salem- 
Canada.  He  came  from  Londonderry  and  it  is  said  he  first  improved 
land  on  the  hill  east  of  David  Clark's,  but,  Jan.  30,  1744,  bought  90  acres 


665 

of  land  where  the  late  David  C.  Grant  lived.  With  him  came  his  wife, 
Margaret,  and  two  sons,  at  least,  were  born  to  them  in  town,  John  and 
Thomas.  John  and  Thomas  were  soldiers  in  the  Revolutionary  Army 
and  their  story  is  told  in  another  chapter.  Children  :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  Aug.  29,  1742. 

2.  HANNAH,  b.  May  5,  1745. 

3.  THOMAS,  -(- 

4.  MEHITABLB,  b.  April  12,  1752. 

5.  JOHN,  + 

UEUT.  THOMAS  BOFFEE  was  born  April  10,  1750.  His  wife, 
Sarah,  died  Sept.  9,  1772.  The  town  records  contain  the  following: 
"Thomas  Spaulding,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  Boffee,  born  Sept.  i, 

1772." 

JOHN  BOFFEE,  son  of  Melchizedeck  and  Margaret  Boffee,  born  July 
4,  1754  ;  married  Anna  Howard.  He  died  Oct.  6,  1820.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  b.  May  22,  1783,  d.  Oct.  21,  1802. 

2.  SALLY,  d.  April  26,  1779. 

3.  ANNA,  d.  April  29,  1787. 

4.  POLLY,  b.  Sept.  19,  1790. 

5.  BETSEY,  b.  July  28,  1792,  m.  Ephraim  Kidder.     (See  Kidder 

•  gen.) 

BOSWORTH. 

CAPT.  GEORGE  W.  BOSWORTH  was  born  at  Plympton,  Mass.,  in 
1823.  He  died  at  Atnherst,  1902  ;  married,  March  2,  1847,  Amy,  daughter 
of  Gideon  and  Amy  (Putnam)  Cram  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born 
Oct.  9,  1823.  He  lived  at  Lyndeborough  for  a  few  years,  but  the  latter 
years  of  his  life  were  passed  in  Amherst.  He  was  a  man  of  sterling 
quality  and  had  the  respect  of  his  associates.  For  his  military  record 
see  another  chapter.  Children  :  — 

i.  GEORGE  W.,  b.   in  Milford,  Sept.   13,   1848,    d.  March  27, 


2.  AMY  F.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Nov.   23,    1850,   d.  July  17, 

1854. 

3.  MARY  E.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  ^Dec.  29,  1852. 

4.  ABBY  F.,  b.  in  Milford,  Jan.  31,  1856. 

5.  EMMA  H.,  b.  in  Milford,  Dec.  14,  1861,  d.  Jan.  18,  1862. 

6.  GEORGE  N.,  b.  in  Milford,  Nov.  4,  1866. 

7.  GRACE  A.,  b.  in  Milford,  May  28,  1871. 

BOUTWELL. 

The  name  Boutwell  is  of  Huguenot  origin,  and  this  family  can  trace 
its  descent  to  those  who  left  the  south  of  France  to  escape  persecution 
and  made  England  their  home.  Some  of  the  family  emigrated  to  the 
Massachusetts  Colony  during  the  last  half  of  the  sixteenth  century. 


666  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

James  Boutwell  and  Alice,  his  wife,  are  common  ancestors  of  all  the 
Boutwells  of  this  country.  He  was  made  a  freeman  in  1638,  and  his  will 
is  on  file  among  the  old  Norfolk  County  records  of  Salem,  Mass.  In  this 

will  he  mentions  his  son,  John.  John,  born  1645,  married  Hannah , 

and  settled  in  Reading,  Mass.  He  had  a  son  John.  This  John  was  born 

Feb.  26,  1669 ;  married  Sarah ,  and  lived  in  Reading.  He  had  a  son 

John,  also.  This  John  was  born  August  i ,  1695  ;  married  Rebecca  Knight 
and  lived  in  Wilmington,  Mass.  He  had  a  son  James,  who  came  to 
Lyndeborough.  James  was  of  the  fifth  generation  from  James,  the  im- 
migrant ancestor. 

The  Boutwell  homestead  farm  is  situated  on  gently  rising  ground  at 
the  south  end  of  what  is  termed  the  "  middle  of  the  town."  It  was  here 
that  James  Boutwell  settled  when  he  came  to  Salem-Canada  or  Lynde- 
borough,  April  8,  1767.  This  farm  has  been  in  the  possession  of  the 
Boutwell  family  ever  since.  There  was  probably  a  clearing  and  perhaps 
a  log  house  there  when  he  bought,  but  the  farm  has  been  theirs  practi- 
cally since  the  settlement  of  the  town. 

The  farm  buildings  were  formerly  somewhat  rambling  and  discon- 
nected, but  when  Charles  R.  Boutwell  came  into  possession,  he  enlarged 
and  remodeled  them,  and  the  result  is  one  of  the  most  commodious  and 
attractive  country  residences  in  this  section  of  the  state.  Surrounded  by 
fertile  fields  and  beautiful  shade  trees  it  commands  one  of  the  finest 
views  of  country  scenery  to  be  found  anywhere.  Pinnacle,  Winn,  Peter- 
borough, Pack  Monadnock,  and  the  range  of  mountains  to  the  south, 
with  the  intervening  valleys,  form  a  fair  picture,  as  seen  from  this 
outlook. 

But  little  is  known  of  James  Boutwell.  Like  that  of  many  of  the 
early  settlers  of  the  town,  his  history  is  shrouded  in  the  mist  of  years. 
He  was  evidently  well  received  by  the  settlers  of  Lyndeborough,  for  he 
was  elected  selectman  the  year  after  he  came  to  town,  and  again  in  1771. 
He  came  from  Wilmington,  Mass.,  to  Amherst,  and  thence  removed  to 
Lyndeborough.  Probably  the  three  older  children  were  born  at  Am" 
herst,  but  they  are  recorded  as  born  at  Lyndeborough,  which  must  be  a 
mistake,  for  these  three  were  born  before  1767,  the  date  on  which  he 
came  to  Lyndeborough.  James  Boutwell  was  born  in  1736,  and  married 
Mary  Johnson,  presumably  of  Wilmington,  Mass.  He  died  Feb.  6,  1804. 
His  descendants  have  left  a  large  impress  on  the  history  of  Lyndebor- 
ough, and  have  carried  New  England  ideas  to  many  remote  sections  of 
the  country.  Children:  — 

1.  ASA,  b.  Feb.  n,  1761,  m.  May  25,  1779,  Bridget  Pearsons  of 

Duxbury  School  Farm. 

2.  MARY,  b.  Oct.  5,  1763,  m.  Nov.   16,   1786,  Noah  L/awrence 

of  L/yndeborough. 

3.  ABIGAIL,  b.  Dec.  22,   1766,  m.  June  4,   1785,  Jesse  Wood- 

bury  of  Weare. 

4.  JUDITH,    b.    March   9,    1769,    m.    April   26,   1787,    Moulton 

Bachelder. 


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GENEALOGIES  667 

5.  JAMES,    b.    Sept.    29,   1772,    m.   March    16,    1790,    Deborah 

Haggett. 

6.  NEHEMIAH,  -f- 

7.  AUCE,  b.  June  25,  1776,  m.  Jan.   28,  1796,  Joseph  Bachel- 

der  of  St.  Andrews  Grove. 

NEHEMIAH  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Jaines  aud  Mary  (Johnson)  Boutwell, 
born  Nov.  20,  1774;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dr.  Benjamin  and 
Elizabeth  (Cleaves)  Jones  of  Lyndeborough,  June  28,  1796.  She  was  born 
Dec.  18,  1776 ;  died  July  3,  1856.  He  died  Oct.  3,  1855.  He  was  an  ener- 
getic, stirring,  business  man,  and  in  addition  to  carrying  on  his  large 
farm  had  a  potash  factory,  which  stood  west  of  the  house,  which  he 
operated  for  many  years.  He  must  have  been  something  of  a  mechanic, 
withal,  for  he  made  the  nails  with  which  to  build  a  new  house.  He 
owned  and  operated  a  tannery,  and  by  strict  integrity  and  attention  to 
business  acquired  a  competence.  He  was  moderator  of  the  town  meet- 
ings for  many  years,  representative  to  the  general  court  in  1821  and 
again  in  1828  and  town  treasurer  for  19  years.  He  was  drum  major  in 
the  state  militia.  In  the  later  years  of  his  life  he  resigned  the  care  of 
the  farm  to  his  son,  Rodney  C.  His  wife  had  the  misfortune  to  be  nearly 
or  quite  blind  the  last  years  of  her  life.  Children :  — 

1.  NEHEMIAH,  b.  May  19,  1797,  m.  Mary  Johnson  of  Hollis. 

2.  BETSEY,  b.  Feb.  8,  1799,  m.  Jesse  Pearsons  of  Francestown, 

d.  Aug.  4,  1873. 

3.  BENJAMIN  J.,  b.  Feb.  9,  1801,  d.  May  19,  1807. 

4.  WILLIAM  THURSTON,  -f- 

5.  CLARK  CROMBIE,  -+- 
9.  NEWTON,  -f- 

7.  BENJAMIN  JONES,    b.   Jan.    12,    1809,  m.   Mary  Fisher,  d. 

Aug.  14,  1836. 

8.  RODNEY  CLEAVES,  + 

9.  JAMES,  -+- 

10.  MARY  ANN,  b.  April  7,  1816,  m.  James  H.  Hall  of  Brook- 
line,  N.  H.,  d.  May  8,  1852. 

11.  SARAH  JONES,    b.    July   15,    1818,    m.    Eben   Palmer,    d. 
Jan.  30,  1841.     (See  Palmer  gen.) 

REV.  WILLIAM  THURSTON  BOUTWELL.  (See  p.  566.)  Son  of 
Nehemiah  and  Elizabeth  (Jones)  Boutwell ;  born  Feb.  4,  1803 ;  married 
Oct.  n,  1834,  Hester  Crooks  of  Fond  du  Lac,  Wis.  She  died  at  Still- 
water,  Minn.,  Oct.  15,  1853.  He  died  Oct.  n,  1890,  at  Stillwater,  Minn. 
He  prepared  for  college  at  Hancock  and  Exeter  Academies.  Graduated 
at  Dartmouth  in  1828,  and  from  the  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in 
1831.  He  was  ordained  at  Woburn  in  1831,  and  was  sent  by  the  American 
Board  as  a  missionary  to  the  Chippewa  Indians  at  Mackinaw  and  vicinity. 
He  remained  with  them  until  1845,  teaching  and  preaching,  and  enduring 
the  discomforts  and  privations  of  a  life  among  such  surroundings.  He 


668  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

removed  to  Stillwater,  Minn.,  where  he  was  the  pioneer  home  missionary 
of  the  state,  preaching  the  first  sermon  ever  preached  in  the  state  of  Min- 
nesota. Most  of  his  children  were  born  in  Minnesota,  but  one,  Mary 
Louise,  was  born  at  Lyndeborough.  Children  :  — 

1.  ELIZABETH  A.,    b.    August  4,    1835,  d.  Jan.  17,  1900,  m. 

Rollins  Parkhurst,  1860.  He  died  May  25,  1879.  Chil- 
dren :  Leforest,  Marie  Antoinette. 

2.  RAMSEY   C.,  b.  May  16,   1837,  m.  Nov.  20,  1872,  Lucy  A. 

Clark  of  Lyndeborough,  d.  April  24,  1898. 

3.  MARY  LOUISE,  b.  Jan.  10,  1840. 

4.  WILLIAM  T.,  b.  Feb.  6,  1842. 

5.  RODNEY  C.,  b.  Feb.  26,  1844. 

6    KATHARINE  A.,  b.  Oct.  23,  1846. 

7.  HESTER  C.,  b.  Jan.  2,  1848. 

8.  BASIL  E.,  b.  Nov.  16,  1850. 

9.  CORNELIUS  L.,  b.  Nov.  2.  1852. 

CLARK  CROMBIE  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Elizabeth 
(Jones)  Boutwell,  born  April  22,  1805 ;  married  Asenath  Bradford  of 
Hancock.  He  early  removed  to  Nashua  and  soon  became  prominent  in 
the  business  circles  of  that  city.  He  was  president  and  director  of  the 
Wilton  railroad  corporation,  and  largely  interested  in  the  railroads  of  the 
state.  He  was  prominent  in  financial  circles  and  influential  in  the  city 
of  his  adoption.  Children  : — 

1.  HENRY  THATCHER,  b.  Aug.  20,    1844,  m.  1872,  Helen  G. 

Willis  of  St.  Louis.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Harvard,  1866, 
M.  D.,  1870,  and  is  a  physician  in  Manchester.  His  chil- 
dren are  :  John  Mason,  b.  1874,  who  is  a  graduate  of 
Harvard,  1897,  aQd  is  in  the  government  service,  U.  S., 
Geological  Survey,  Washington,  D.  C.  ;  Alice  Bradford, 
b.  1882. 

2.  ELLEN  A  FRANCES,  b.  March  14,  1847,  m.  June,  1870,  Rev. 

Minot  Gage  of  Cambridge,  Mass.  Children  :  Walter  Bout- 
well,  b.  1872  ;  Harold  Minot,  b.  1874. 

3.  LIZZIE  MARCIA,  b.  Oct.  5,  1851,  d.  at   High   Point,  N.  C., 

April  26,  1880. 

4.  IDA  BRADFORD,  b.  Jan.  8,  1854,  d.  April  7,  1882. 

NEWTON  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Elizabeth  (Jones) 
Boutwell,  born  July  19,  1807;  married  first,  Jan.  12,  1830,  Mary  Ann 
Merrill  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Aug.  24,  1807  ;  died  May  5,  1852  ; 
married  second,  Feb.  6,  1853,  Deborah  A.  Davis  of  East  Montpelier,  Vt. 
She  was  born  Dec.  23,  1813  ;  died  Oct.  15,  1882.  Children  born  in  N. 
Craftsbury,  Vt.,  except  the  first  two  : — 

i.  ELIZABETH  A.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  May  i,  1831. 


GENEALOGIES  669 

2.  WILLIAM  C.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  July  2*8,  1832. 

3.  HARRIET,  b.  Nov.  15,  1833. 

4.  FRANCIS  N.,  b.  July  30,  1835. 

5.  ROBERT  T.,  b.  Feb.  6,  1837. 

6.  MARY  J.,  b.  Nov.  27,  1838. 

7.  THOMAS  N.,  b.  Dec.  30,  1839. 

8.  RODNEY  M.,  b.  Dec.  17,  1841. 

9.  JAMES  B.,  b.  Nov.  19,  1843. 

10.  MARY  Ella,  b.  July  9,    1856,   in.   Carl  Benedict  of   Barre, 
Vt.     Children  :  Nathan  B.,  Emily  M. 

REV.  JAMES  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Elizabeth  (Jones) 
Boutwell,  born  May  14,  1814 ;  married  April  10,  1837,  Mary  P.  Abbott  of 
Audover,  Mass.  She  died  Sept.  9,  1868.  He  died  April  21,  1865.  He 
graduated  from  Dartmouth  College  in  1836  and  from  Andover  Theologi- 
cal Seminary  in  1840.  About  the  time  of  his  marriage  he  removed  to 
Dunkirk,  N.  Y.,  and  later  to  Sanbornton,  N.  H.,  where  he  died.  They 
had  a  family  of  ten  children,  none  of  them  born  in  Lyndeborough. 
Children  :— 

1.  MARY  I,.,  b.  March  8,  1838,  m.  Nathaniel  B.  Plummer. 

2.  JAMES  P.,  b.  Feb.  6,  1840,  d.  Oct.  31,  1844. 

3.  GEORGE  C.,  b.  Feb.  8,  1842,  d.  1892. 

4.  CHARLES  H.,  b.  Oct.  29,  m.  Helen  M.  Abbott. 

5.  HANNAH  E.,  b.  March    n,  1846,  m.  C.  Iy.  Davis,  d.  April, 

1892. 

6.  JAMES    P.,    b.    Jan.    4,     1848,     m.    Hannah     Huntington. 

Child  :  Mary  Abbott,  b.  March  29,  1875. 

7.  EMMA  C.,  b.  Dec.  22,  1849,  m.  Virgil  K.  Curd. 

8.  EDWARD  PARSONS,  b.  Feb.  19,  1852,  graduate  of  Dartmouth, 

1876,  d.  March  4,  1878. 

9.  ARTHUR  A.,  b.  March  22,  1854,  d.  June  17,  1878. 

10.  WILLIS  M.,  b.  Aprils,  1857,  m.  Ella  Watson. 

RODNEY  CLEAVES  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Elizabeth 
(Jones)  Boutwell,  born  July  14,  1811  ;  married  Jan.  31,  1833,  Nancy  J., 
daughter  of  Nathan  and  Ann  (Remick)  Barnes  of  Bedford.  She  was  born 
Oct.  23,  1811;  died  Apr.  19,  1892,  at  Medford,  Mass.  He  died  at  Medford, 
Aug.  i,  1891.  When  Nehemiah, his  father,  retired  from  the  active  duties  of 
farm  life  he  took  the  farm  and  cultivated  it  until  the  infirmities  of  age  com- 
pelled him  in  turn  to  transfer  it  to  one  of  his  children.  He  was  a  man  who 
shunned  public  office  and  his  whole  time  and  attention  was  given  to  the 
tilling  of  his  land  and  the  management  of  his  farm  work.  His  wife  was 
a  woman  of  stately  presence,  of  great  refinement  and  of  much  intellectual 
power.  She  came  of  a  family  noted  for  its  ability  and  influence.  Her 
teachings  and  impress  remain  with  their  children  and  they  revere  her 
memory.  Twelve  children  were  born  to  them,  and  in  many  respects  they 
were  a  remarkable  family.  Remarkable  from  the  fact  that  they  all  grew 


670  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

to  manhood  and  womanho'od,  Sarah's  death,  aged  twenty  years,  being 
the  first  break  in  the  family ;  remarkable  that  they  were,  all  twelve, 
men  and  women  of  fine  physique,  rugged  specimens  of  New  England 
stock.  Their  father  and  mother  were  consistent  members  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  and  constant  church  attendance  was  a  part  of  their  creed, 
so  these  boys  and  girls  were  marshalled  into  the  sanctuary  every  Sunday, 
sometimes  filling  more  than  one  pew.  They  all  received  a  good  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  of  the  town  supplemented  in  most  cases  by  terms  at 
some  academy.  Abby  J.  was  a  teacher  in  Boston  for  some  years. 
Clarissa  married  and  removed  to  the  West.  Her  husband  was  a  sheriff 
and  jailor  at  one  time  and  once  when  a  break  was  attempted  she  held  the 
tnob  of  desperate  prisoners  at  bay  with  a  revolver  until  help  arrived.  Of 
these  twelve  children  Ann  E.  (Whittemore)  is  the  only  one  remaining  a 
resident  of  Lyndeborough.  Children  : — 

1.  CLARISSA   BARNES,  b.  Nov.  20,  1833,  m.  Samuel  G.  Colley 

and  rem.  to  Beloit,  Wis.     He  d.  Oct.  21,  1890. 

2.  NATHAN  BARNES,  + 

3.  ANN  ELIZABETH,  b.  May  4,  1837,  m.  Daniel  B.  Whittemore. 

(See  Whittemore  gen.) 

4.  ABIGAIL  JANE,  b.  Dec.  13,   1838,  m.  Jan.  i,   1878,  Robert 

Hawthorne,  of  Newton  Centre,  Mass.     He  d.  April  i,  1892. 
£.  BENJAMIN  JONES,  -(- 

6.  WILLIAM  THURSTON,  + 

7.  SARAH  JONES,  b.  Sept.  9,  1844,  d.  Jan.  12,  1864. 

8.  CHARLES  RODNEY,  -f- 

9.  HENRY  WINSLOW,  -+- 

10.  GEORGE  SUMNER,  -f- 

11.  ROLAND  HILL,   + 

12.  ROSWELL  MURRAY,  -f- 

NATHAN  BARNES  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Rodney  C.  and  Nancy  J. 
(Barnes)  Boutwell ;  born  July  31,  1835;  married  Nov.  25,  1858,  Lizzie, 
daughter  of  Oliver  and  Susan  (Foster)  Hawkins  of  Troy,  N.  H. 
She  was  born  June  13,  1836  ;  died  Nov.  3,  1865  ;  second,  Emily,  daughter 
of  Luke  and  Hannah  W.  (Perkins)  Beard  of  Wilton.  She  was  born  July 
20,  1846.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  became  connected  with  the  whole- 
sale house  of  E.  C.  Hazard  &  Co.  of  New  York.  In  1876  he  removed 
to  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  in  1880  accepted  a  position  in  the  Boston 
custom  house  where  he  has  been  ever  since  and  where  he  is  now  in  charge 
of  the  Appraisers'  Stores.  He  was  a  soldier  during  the  Civil  War. 
For  his  military  record  see  chapter  X.  Resides  at  Winchester,  Mass. 
Child  by  first  wife  :  — 

i.  LESLIE  BARNES,  b.  July  28,  1860,  m.  Sept.  9,  1903,  Made- 
laine  Endicott  Giddings  of  Beverly,  Mass.     He  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  Harvard  Dental  School.    Child  :  Madelaine  Giddiugs, 
b.  Sept.  15,  1905. 
Child  by  second  wife  :  — 


GENEALOGIES  671 

i.  HORACE  KEITH,  b.    Dec.    4,    1876.     He   is  a   graduate  of 
Harvard  Medical  School. 

BENJAMIN  JONES  BOUTWEI.lv,  son  of  Rodney  C.  and  Nancy  J- 
(Barnes;  Boutwell ;  born  Dec.  25,  1840;  married  April,  1882,  Louisa 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Mary  (Keeley)  Knight  of  Milford- 
She  was  born  June  16,  1854,  and  died  at  Atnherst,  Feb.  2,  1890.  He  died 
at  Medford,  Mass.,  Jan.  i,  1896.  He  was  engaged  in  the  grocery  business 
in  Boston  for  a  number  of  years  and  afterwards  at  Worcester,  Mass.  In 
1882  he  returned  to  the  homestead  farm  which  he  had  owned  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  He  was  the  postmaster  at  the  "  Centre  "  for  a  while,  a 
member  of  the  board  of  selectmen  and  of  the  board  of  education.  He 
was  a  leader  in  the  work  ,of  the  Congregational  Church,  conducting  the 
services  for  the  better  part  of  a  year,  while  the  church  edifice  was  being 
remodeled.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  war.  See  chapter  X. 
Children  :— 

1.  MARY  ELIZABETH,  b.  March  14,  1883,  d.  June  30,  1898. 

2.  ROSWELL  KNIGHT,  b.  March  16,  1885. 

3.  PAUL  W.,  b.  Feb.  6,  1888. 

WILLIAM  THURSTON  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Rodney  C.  and  Nancy 
J.  (Barnes)  Boutwell ;  born  Sept.  13,  1842  ;  married  first,  Eliza  J.  Com- 
ings of  West  Lebanon,  N.  H.  She  died  March  24,  1883.  He  married 
second,  Mary  E.  Haskell  of  Afton,  Minn.,  April  12,  1884.  She  was  born 
Mays,  l%5l>  and  died  May  28,  1895.  Mr.  Boutwell  lived  on  the  home 
farm  some  years  and  was  active  in  church  work  and  in  town  affairs.  In 
1880  he  removed  to  Minn.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  See 
Chap.  X.  He  died  at  Guffy,  Col.,  Aug.  2,  1904.  Children  :— 

1.  SARAH  KIMBALL,  b.  in   Boston,  Mass.,  June  3,  1867.     She 

is  a  graduate  of  Mt.  Holyoke  College,  1890. 

2.  WILLIAM    R.,  b.  in   W.  Lebanon,  N.  H.,  Nov.  25,  1868,  d. 

June  14,  1871. 

3.  GEORGE   B.,  b.  in   Medford,  Mass.,  Nov.    8,   1870,  m.  first, 

Florence  Rogers,  second,  Clara  Corbett.  Children  by  first 
wife  :  Roland  C.,  b.  Sept.  12,  1892,  Edna,  b.  Sept.  18,  1893, 
Florence  M.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1894. 

4.  HOWARD  P.,  b.  in  Wilton,  N.  H.,  Sept.  30,  1872,  m.  Grace 

R.  Dow.     Children:  William  D.,  b.  Feb.  6,  1900,  Helen  I- 
-     b.  Oct.  5,  1902. 

5.  EDWARD   B.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Dec.   14,   1878,  m.  Nov. 

26,    1901,    Martha   Ashworth  of  Chelsea,    Mass. 
Children  by  second  wife  : — 

6.  JOSEPH  H.,  b.  .Oct.  4,  1885,  at  Cottage  Grove,  Minn. 

7.  MARY  J.,  b.  Sept.  5,  1887,  at  Afton,  Minn. 

8.  PHILLIP  K.,  b.  Nov.  29,  1890,  at  Afton,  Minn. 
CHARLES  RODNEY  BOUTWELL,  son   of   Rodney  C.  and  Nancy  J. 


672  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

(Barnes)  Boutwell ;  born  Aug.  i,  1846  ;  married  Oct.  23,  1867,  Lucy  S., 
daughter  of  Leonard  M.  and  Abigail  (Kendall)  Kimball  of  Hillsboro. 
She  was  born  June  4,  1839.  He  was  one  of  the  staff  of  inspectors  in  the 
Boston  custom  house  for  fifteen  years.  For  some  years  previous  he  had 
been  in  the  produce  business  in  Charlestown,  Mass.  In  1888  he  bought 
the  homestead  farm  of  his  brother  Benjamin  and  came  back  to  his  native 
town  where  he  died  Jan.  18,  1904. 

DR.  HENRY  WINSLOW  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Rodney  C.  and  Nancy 
J.  (Barnes)  Boutwell;  born  Aug.  2,  1848;  married  first,  Clara  Gerrish  of 
Franklin,  N.  H. ;  second,  Mary  Stanton  of  Sandwich.  Clara  (Gerrish) 
Boutwell  died  in  1894.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  Harvard  Medical  School 
and  is  a  prominent  physician  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  being  surgeon  for  the 
Amoskeag  Manufacturing  Company  and  the  Manchester  Mills  ;  also  presi- 
dent of  the  staff  of  the  Sacred  Heart  Hospital.  He  kis  a  trustee  of  the 
New  Hampshire  State  Industrial  School  and  of  the  Manchester  Public 
Library  ;  and  was  surgeon-general  on  the  staff  of  Governor  N.  J.  Bachel- 
der.  Child  :— 

i.  EDITH  GERRISH,  b.  July  16,  1875,  m.  Selwyn  B.  Clark  of 
Worcester,  Mass,,  July  2,  1901. 

GEORGE  SUMNER  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Rodney  C.  and  Nancy  J. 
(Barnes)  Boutwell;  born  Aug.  22,  1850;  married,  May  21,  1872,  Sophia 
Mclver  of  Worcester,  Mass.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Charles  Chamberlain. 
He  is  with  Boutwell  Bros.  Resides  in  Worcester,  Mass. 

ROLAND  HILL  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Rodney  C.  and  Nancy  J.  (Barnes) 
Boutwell ;  born  May  2,  1853  I  married  Oct.  29,  1879,  Minnie  E.,  daughter 
of  Albert  H.  and  Ann  (Ager)  Butters  of  Medford,  Mass. ;  born  Nov.  i, 
1853.  She  died  Oct.  i,  1883.  Married  second,  Oct.  28,  1885,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  George  S.  and  Jane  (Skinner)  Blake  of  Belmont,  Mass.  She 
died  Feb.  27,  1891.  Married,  third,  Nov.  16,  1904,  Jennie  (Crosbie)  Gil- 
man  of  Exeter.  He  established  with  his  brother,  Roswell  M.,  Sept.  15, 
1876,  the  firm  of  Boutwell  Bros.,  incorporated,  Lowell,  Mass.,  dealers 
in  iron  and  steel.  He  is  president  of  the  Portland  Iron  and  Steel  Com- 
pany, Portland,  Me.,  manufacturers  of  iron  and  steel,  and  president  of 
the  Standard  Horse  Shoe  Co.,  So.  Wareham,  Mass.,  manufacturers  of 
horse  shoes.  Residence,  The  Westminster,  Boston.  Child  :  — 

i.  ROLAND  A.,  b.  Oct.  i,  1883,  d.  Oct.  i,  1883. 

ROSWELL  MURRAY  BOUTWELL.  son  of  Rodney  C.  and  Nancy  J. 
(Barnes)  Boutwell ;  born  May  22,  1855  ;  married  May  22,  1883,  Jeannie  C. 
Russell  of  Louisville,  Ky.  She  was  born  Feb.  28,  1859.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Boutwell  Bros.,  incorporated,  Lowell,  Mass.,  dealers  in 
iron  and  steel,  and  is  treasurer  of  the  Portland  Iron  and  Steel  Co.,  Port- 
land, Me.,  manufacturers  of  iron  and  steel.  He  is  also  treasurer  of  the 
Standard  Horse  Shoe  Co.,  of  So.  Wareham,  Mass.,  manufacturers  of  horse 
shoes.  While  a  resident  of  Lowell  he  was  a  member  of  the  city  council 
from  1886  to  1889  and  was  chairman  of  the  board  of  aldermen  during  the 
year  1889.  Residence,  300  Newbury  Street,  Boston.  Children  :  — 

i.  ELSIE  RUSSELL,  b.  July  24,  1884. 


GENEALOGIES  673 

2.  ROSWELL  MURRAY,  JR.,  b.  Jan.  19,  1888. 

3.  ROLAND  HILL,  second,  b.  Oct.  10,  1889. 

BOUTWEUv. 

ABRAM  E.  BOUTWELL  was  born  at  Amherst ;  married  Nancy  Brown 
of  Amherst,  Dec.3i,  1816;  died  June  25,  1835.  His  widow  and  children 
removed  to  Lyndeborough.  Children  :  — 

1.  NAOMI  ANN,  m.  William  B.  Raymond. 

2.  JAMES,  + 

3.  ABRAM,  -|- 

4.  NANCY,  m.  Benjamin  B.  Miller. 

5.  SARAH,  m.  Warren  Ames. 

6.  MARY  J.,  first,  d.  in  infancy. 

7.  MARY  J.,  second,    m.    Calvin   A.   Abbott.     (See   respective 

gen.) 

JAMES  BOUTWELL,  son  of  Abram  E.  and  tNancy  (Brown)  Bout- 
well  ;  born  April  16,  1820  ;  married  Ellen  O'Donnell ;  born  in  Ireland. 
James  Boutwell  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War  and  died  Aug.  15,  1863, 
the  day  after  he  returned  from  the  army.  (See  chap.  X.)  Their  two 
oldest  children  were  born  at  Lyndeborough.  Children  : — 

1.  MARY  A.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1852. 

2.  JAMES  C.,  b.  March  31,  1854. 

3.  ELLEN  M.,  b.  at  Wilton. 

4.  ANGELINE,  b.  at  Temple. 

5.  GEORGE,  b.  at  Temple. 

ABRAM  BOUTWELIy  was  born  Feb.  28,  1822  ;  married  Mary  Badger, 
a  daughter  of  Stephen  Badger.  She  was  born  Oct.  21,  1821,  and  died 
March  30,  1900.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War  and  died  Dec.  27, 
1893.  (See  chap.  X.)  Children  all  born  in  I/yndeborough  : — 

1.  CHARLES  F.,  b.  July  19,  1853. 

2.  SARAH,  b.  June  8,  1855,  d.  June  18,  1859. 

3.  IDA  M.,  b.  May  i,  1858,  m.  Peter  King. 

4.  HARVEY,  b.  Feb.  19,  1860. 

5.  STILLMAN,  b.  Feb.  17,  1862. 

BOWEN 

WILLIAM  H.  BOWEN,  son  of  Guy  and  Mary  (Richardson)  Bowen  ; 
born  in  Corinth,  Vt.,  Nov.  6,  1847;  married  April  19,  1869,  Estella  E., 
daughter  of  George  B.  and  Mary  J.  (Clark)  Woodward  of  Francestown. 
She  was  born  Nov.  n,  1848.  Mr.  Bowen  resides  in  "Johnson  Corner" 
and  is  a  prosperous  and  enterprising  farmer.  He  has  enlarged  and  re- 
modeled the  farm  buildings.  The  production  of  milk  for  Boston  is  the 
leading  branch  of  his  farming.  Child  : — 

i.  WILLIAM  T.,  + 


674  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

WILLIAM  T.  BOWEN  was  born  in  Francestown,  Dec.  n,  1869;  mar- 
ried Aug.  30,  1892,  Susan,  daughter  of  James  and  Susan  (Beaman)  Walch- 
She  was  born  Oct.  10,  1867.  Mr.  Bowen's  failing  health  compelled  him 
to  seek  the  warmer  climate  of  California,  but  receiving  but  little  benefit 
from  the  change  he  returned  to  Lyndeborough  and  died  the  afternoon  of 
his  arrival,  March  17,  1904. 

BRADFORD. 

THOMAS   BRADFORD,   born    June  4,  1776;    married   first,  Abigail 

.     She  died  Jan.  14,  1797;  second,  Oct.  2,  1799,  Patty  Coburn.     She 

was  born   Oct.   31,    1769;  died   Oct.    15,    1849.     He  died  Sept.   14,  1852. 
Child  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  SARAH,   b.  Sept.   6,  1795,  m.  Oct.  31,  1833,  Elijah   Upton. 

He  d.  Feb.  4,  1835.     She  m.,  second,  L/oammi  Eaton. 
Children  by  second  wife :  — 

2.  ABIGAIL,  b.  July  7,  1800,  m.    Dec.  23,   1830,  Reuben   Bald- 

win.    He  d.  Nov.  2,  1831. 

3.  PATTY,  b.  Feb.  7,  1802,  m.  Daniel  Fish.     (See  Fish  gen.) 

4.  MARY,  b.  Feb.  17,  1803,  m.  March  20,  1828,  James  Parker. 

She  d.  Oct.  21,  1847. 

5.  CHARLOTTE,  b.  Sept.  27,   1805,  m.  Dec.  23,  1830,  Loarami 

Baldwin  of  Wilton.     She  d.  May  27,  1882. 

6.  HANNAH,  b.  Nov.  7,  1807,  m.  Feb.  18,  1845,  L,yman  Parker. 

She  d.  Feb.  19,  1892. 

7.  REBECCA,  b.  Oct.  3,   1810,  m.  Albert  Hardy  of  Greenfield. 

Hed.  Oct.  16,  1853. 

8.  JAMES  C.,  -f- 

9.  JANE,  b.  Nov.  i,  1817,  m.  June  6,  1844,  Horace  Cud  worth. 

She  d.  March  9,  1892. 

JAMES  C.  BRADFORD,  son  of  Thomas  and  Patty  (Coburn)  Bradford, 
born  Sept.  2,  1813 ;  married  June,  1837,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Jeremiah 

and Brown  of  Mont  Vernon.     She  was  born  Jan.  24,  1806 ;   died 

Sept.  15,  1888.  He  died  May  28,  1860.  .Children  born  in  Lyndeborough  : — 

1.  ANN  M.,    b.    July    24,    1841,   m.    John    M.    Emery.     (See 

Emery  gen.) 

2.  JOHN  A.,  b.  May  22,  1843,  d-  July  i,  1896. 

3.  SARAH  C.,  b.  Aug.  28,  1845,  d.  Sept.  14,  1848. 

4.  HARLAN  P.,  -(- 

HARLAN  PAGE  BRADFORD,  son  of  James  C.  and  Sarah  (Brown) 
Bradford,  born  April  20,  1848  ;  married  Oct.  25,  1870,  Georgianna,  daugh- 
ter of  Harvey  and  Lois  (Cram)  Holt  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born 
March  17,  1851 ;  died  Sept.  27,  1871.  Child  :  — 

i.  GEORGE  P.,  b.  Sept.  26,  1871,  m.  Agnes  C.,  dan.  of  Wil- 
liam E.  and  Phebe*(  Cutler)  Fiske.     One  child  :  Harlan  F. 


GENEALOGIES  675 

BROOKS. 

CAPT.  WILLIAM  BROOKS  came  to  Lyndeborough  soon  after  the 
Revolutipnary  War.  He  was  born  at  Woburn,  Mass.,  March  3,  1737,  and 
was  twice  married.  First,  March  29,  1759,  Abigail  Kemp  of  Hollis,  N. 
H.;  second,  Sept.  20,  1787,  Hepsibah  Powers  of  Hollis.  By  his  first 
marriage  he  had  a  large  family,  none  of  the  children  probably  born  at 
Lyndeborough.  Whether  they  came  to  Lyndeborough  with  him  is  un- 
known. It  is  supposed  some  of  them  did.  He  died  at  Lyndeborough 
Oct.  n,  1804.  He  enlisted  in  1778  in  Capt.  Emerson's  Co.,  Rhode  Island 
Regiment,  and  was  a  second  lieutenant.  He  again  enlisted  in  Capt. 
John  Mills'  company  in  1781.  This  company  is  supposed  to  be  from 
Londonderry,  N.  H.  In  the  town  records  is  the  record  of  the  birth  of 
Nathan,  born  Sept.  10,  1800,  and  John  Boffee,  born  Dec.  12,  1802,  children 
of  William  and  Rebecca  Brooks.  It  is  not  known  if  this  William  was 
the  son  of  Capt.  William  or  not.  Children :  — 

1.  WILLIAM,  b.  May  i,  1760. 

2.  ABIGAIL,  b.  July  19.  1762. 

3.  BETSEY,  b.  July  23,  1764. 

4.  SARAH,  b.  July  6,  1766. 

5.  ISAAC,  b.  Oct.  28,  1768. 

6.  MARAH,  b.  Feb.  15,  1771. 

7.  SAMUEL,  b.  March  3,  1774. 

8.  MARTHA,  b.  Aug.  23,  1776. 

9.  LEONARD,  b.  Jan.  29,  1779. 

10.  JOHN,  b.  Nov.  n,  1781. 

11.  SUSANNA,  b.  Feb.  12,  1783. 

BROWN. 

In  the  interval  between  the  French  and  Indian  war  and  the  war  of 
Independence,  many  deserters  from  the  British  army  and  navy  found 
refuge  in  New  Hampshire  where  opportunities  were  good  for  escape 
from  capture.  Prior  to  the  year  1770,  a  young  English  soldier,  named 
Hodgeman,  came  with  two  fellow  deserters  to  the  vicinity  of  Lynde- 
borough Centre,  and  were  hidden  and  befriended  by  John  Stephenson 
and  others.  One  of  the  men  died  while  here  and  was  buried  in  the 
woods.  Hodgeman  learning  that  scouts  were  on  his  track  sought  con- 
cealment in  the  neighborhood  of  Purgatory  Falls,  then  known  as  Wain- 
wright's  brook.  Stephen  Peabody,  who  had  built  a  house  on  top  of 
Strawberry  Hill,  here  befriended  the  refugee.  He  made  for  him  a  hid- 
ing place  in  the  ravine  during  the  day.  Hodgeman  received  his  food 
from  his  protector's  table,  and  at  night  stole  up  to  Peabody's  house  for 
lodging.  He  afterward  married  and  settled  in  Amherst,  served  in  the 
Revolutionary  Army,  and  abandoning  the  name  of  Hodgeman  was  known 
as  William  Brown.  It  is  an  interesting  coincidence  that  nearly  eighty 
years  after  this  deserter  found  refuge  at  Purgatory  Falls  during  troub- 
lous times,  his  son,  Robert  Brown,  should  become  the  owner  of  the  land 
which  includes  this  upper  fall.  Some  of  this  land  was  sold  to  Mr. 
Hutchiuson  but  the  descendants  of  William  Brown  still  own  the  adjoin- 


676  HISTORY  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

ing  farm.  This  William  Brown  married  Tabitha  Boutwell,  of  Amherst, 
and  twelve  children  were  born  to  them,  one  of  whom,  Robert,  came  to 
Lyndeborough. 

ROBERT  BROWN,  son  of  William  Brown  and  Tabitha  (Boutwell) 
Brown,  born  at  Amherst  Dec.  14,  1800 ;  married  Mary  Ann  Erving  of 
Amherst.  She  was  born  May  18,  1807  ;  died  July  9,  1866,  at  Jaffrey.  He 
died  Nov.  27,  1873,  at  Jaffrey.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Merri- 
mack  in  1839  and  lived  on  the  Lucas  place  (now  so  called)  for  a  few 
years,  then  moved  to  the  farm  where  Leonard  G.  now  lives  in  the  spring 
of  1844.  His  son,  Leonard  G.,  says  of  him  "he  was  a  moving  planet; 
when  he  had  been  married  twenty  years,  he  had  moved  twenty-one 
times."  Children  :  — 

1.  LEONARD  G.,  -\- 

2.  SILAS  L.,  b.  at  Lowell,  Vt.,  1828. 

3.  JOHN  M.,  b.  at  Amherst,  1830.     Went  to  sea  and  died  there. 

4.  MARY  E.,  b.  April  23,  1832,  d.  October  18,  1895,  in  Mont 

Vernon. 

Then  there  were  four  children  who  died  very  young  of  which 
there  is  no  record. 

9.  SARAH  A.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  Jan.  6,   1844,  d.  Sept.  6, 

1849. 

10.  GEORGE  A.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  1846,  died  Sept.  13,  1849. 
n.  JAMES  T.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  May  5,  18 — 

12.  MELISSA  A.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  July  i,   1848.     Res.  at 
Manchester. 

LEONARD  G.  BROWN,  son  of  Robert  and  Mary  (Erving)  Brown, 
born  May  28,  1826  ;  married  Sept.  18,  1855,  Nancy,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
C.  and  Betsey  (Odell)  Carkin.  She  was  born  May  27,  1837.  In  the  fall 
of  1854  he  went  to  the  west  and  taught  school  in  Missouri  and  Kansas. 
He  taught  seven  months  in  an  old  log  school  house  in  Harrisonville, 
Mo.  He  returned  to  Lyndeborough  in  1855  and  settled  on  the  Brown 
homestead  near  the  celebrated  Purgatory  picnic  grounds.  He  and  young 
David  Carkin  found  evidence  that  Purgatory  was  used  as  a  picnic  ground 
as  early  as  1839.  He  is  a  farmer,  gardener  and  fruit  grower.  He  has 
been  superintendent  of  schools  and  a  teacher ;  is  much  interested  in 
temperance  reform  and  has  written  for  the  agricultural  papers.  Of 
strict  integrity  of  character,  he  has  the  respect  of  his  fellow  towns- 
people. Children :  — 

1.  MINA  A.,  b.  Aug.  9,  1856,  m.  1875,  Edwin  O.  Butler. 

2.  LEONARD  E.,  b.  Sept.  27,  1858. 

3.  EFFIE  M.,  b.  Jan.  25,  1863,  m.  Andrew  J.  Marshall.     (See 

Marshall  gen.) 

4.  IDA  B.,  b.  July  25,  1865,  m.  April  17,  1886,  Miles  B.  Wal- 

lace of  Mont  Vernon.     Child  :  Maud  E.,  b.  April  21,  1890. 

5.  IRA  R.,    b.   Jan.    6,    1874,  m.    Nov.  25,    1896,  Minnie   O., 


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daughter  of  Milton  W.  and  Margaret  (Mears)  Wallace  of 
Mont  Vernon.  She  was  b.  July  19,  1871.  One  child,  Ray 
W.,  b.  Feb.  7,  1903. 

BUCK. 

SEWELIv  M.  BUCK,  son  of  Austin  and  Sarah  (Coburn)  Buck,  born 
April  16,  1839,  at  Norway,  Me ;  married  Oct.  24,  1860,  Sarah  P.,  daughter 
of  Ephraitn  T.  and  Mary  A.  (Shaw)  Putnam.  She  was  born  Jan.  16, 
1841.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Greenfield  in  1870  and  settled  on 
the  Israel  Cram  place  in  the  westerly  part  of  the  town.  He  enlisted 
from  Nashua  in  Co.  F,  ist  N.  H.  Vol.,  and  served  three  months  during 
the  Civil  War.  Is  a  painter  by  trade.  Children  :  — 

1.  GEORGIA  A.,  b.  Feb.  14,  1864. 

2.  CARRIE    B.,  b.  Aug.  30,    1866,  m.   first,  Samuel   Dolliver. 

(See  Doliver  gen.),  m.  second,  Roy  E.  Burton.  (See  Bur- 
ton gen.) 

BUZZARD. 

JOHN  A.  BULLARD,  son  of  Naham  and  Keziah  (Peabody)  Bullard, 
born  at  Amherst,  June  26,  1851,  m.  Nov.  23,  1875,  Ida  B.,  daughter  of 
Josiah  and  Sarah  (Farnum)  Swinuington.  She  was  born  at  Mont  Ver- 
non, May  25,  1860.  Mr.  Bullard  resides  on  the  Charles  Tarbell  farm, 
Perharn  Corner.  Children  :  —  • 

1.  HARRY  O.,  b.  July  17,  1877. 

2.  WINFIELD  S.,  b.  Sept.  5,  1880. 

3.  ARTHUR  B.,  b.  June  26    1885,  m.  Aug.  21,  1904,  Alice  M. 

Dicey. 

4.  INFANT  CHILD,  b.  July  31,  1890,  d.  Aug.  3,  1890. 

BURNHAM. 

The  Burnham  family  here  recorded  came  from  Ipswich,  Mass.,  some- 
time before  the  Revolution  and  settled  in  that  part  of  Lyndeborough 
which  was  made  the  town  of  Greenfield.  The  farm  is  now  owned  by 
John  Fletcher  or  is  known  as  the  Fletcher  place.  Col.  Joshua  Burnham, 
probably  a  brother  of  Stephen  (the  first  to  come  to  Lyndeborough),  set- 
tled in  Milford.  Stephen,  Nathaniel  and  James  came  to  Lyndeborough. 
Mrs.  Luther  Crara  is  a  grand-daughter  of  one  of  them.  They  all  had  a 
Revolutionary  war  record.  Children  of  Stephen  and  Lucy  Burnham  :  — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  May  18,  1777. 

2.  LOUISE,  b.  Sept.  6,  1778. 

Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  Burnham  :  — 

1.  LUCY,  b.  Oct.  14,  1774. 

2.  CALEB,  b.  Nov.  23,  1776. 

3.  NATHANIEL,  b.  March  19,  1779. 

4.  EPES,  b.  Aug.  17,  1771. 


678  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

Children  of  James  and  Ruampa  Burnham  :  — 

1.  RUTH,  b.  Sept.  2,  1775. 

2.  MARY,  b.  Feb.  14,  1777. 

3.  JAMES,  b,  April  9,  1779. 

4.  JOSEPH,  b.  Aug.  10,  1782. 

JOHN  W.  BURNHAM,  born  at  Greenfield  Dec.  18,  1822  ;  married 
March  17,  1846,  Ruth  A.,  daughter  of  John  and  Sally  (Tinker)  Gage. 
She  was  born  June  9,  1826  ;  died  Sept.  16,  1874.  He  lived  for  some 
years  on  the  John  Gage  place,  then  removed  to  Francestown  where  he 
died  Nov.  ro,  1888.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN  A.,  b.  at  New  Boston,  Sept.   21,  1847,  m.    April   5, 

1877,  Almira  A.  Powers  of  Washington. 

2.  MARY  A.,  b.  at  Francestown,  April  20,  1850,  m.  Nov.   16, 

1868,   Frank  E.   I/ee  of  Greenfield.     Res.   at  Cambridge, 
Mass. 

3.  SARAH  G.,  b.  at  L/yndeborough,  Jan.  6,  1854,  ra.  Nov.   16, 

1880,  John  K.  Jones  of  East  Cambridge,  Mass. 

4.  CHARLES  F. ,  b.  at  I/yndeborough  Jan.   16,  1859,  m.  March 

22,  1877,  L,enora  E.  Dodge  of  Bennington. 

5.  EDWARD  W.,  b.  at  L,yndeborough,  May  4,  1860,  m.  Oct.  18, 

1885,  Mary  E.  Mulhall  of  Hancock. 

6.  EMMA  A.,  b.  at  L,yndeborough,  Aug.  31,  1863,  m.  July  n, 

1892,  George  O.  Joslin  of  Bennington.     Res.  at  Bennington. 

BURTON. 

DEXTER  BURTON,  born  at  Wilton,  Oct.  16,  1802;  married  April  20, 
1824,  Clarissa  O.  Spofford  of  Temple.  She  was  born  June  12,  1803  ;  died 
Oct.  15,  1886.  He  died  June  3,  1855.  Children  :  — 

1.  DEXTER  L.,  b.   April  10,    1825,  m.  Nov.,    1853,  Emily  F. 

Ward  of  Chelmsford,  Mass.     He  rem.  to  Temple,  d.  May 
3,  1896. 

2.  CLARISSA  I.,  b.  July  2,  1827,  m.  Jan.  1854,  Nathan  Holt  of 

Temple. 

3.  JAMES  E.,  b.  Nov.    18,    1828,  m.  Nov.    18,    1852,  Olive  A. 

Robinson  of  Bennington.     He  d.  March  n,  1897. 

4.  HELEN  M.,  b.  Feb.  24,  1831,  m.  May  18,    1853,    George  H. 

Blood  of  Temple.     He  was  b.  Oct.   17,   1826,   d.   Feb.   5, 
1897.     She  d.  April  8,  1900. 

5.  ELIZA  J.,  b.   Dec.   6,    1834,  m.  May  17,    1857,  George  W. 

Boynton  of  Wilton.     He  d.  Nov.  i,  1900,  in  Oregon. 

6.  WILLIAM  W.,  -J- 

7.  SARAH  A.,  b.  Aug.  28,  1838,  d.  in  infancy. 


GENEALOGIES  679 

WHJ.IAM  W.  BURTON,  born  Nov.  14,  1836;  married  June  20,  1861, 
Esther,  daughter  of  Augustus  and  Almira  (.Boynton)  Cragin  of  Temple! 
He  has  been  and  is  a  man  of  much  influence  in  town  affairs.  Has  been 
selectman  many  years.  Was  representative  to  the  General  Court  in  1874- 
1875,  1895-1896.  Road  agent  in  1892  and  has  held  other  public  office. 
He  makes  the  raising  of  milk  for  the  Boston  market  a  specialty  and  for 
40  years  has  run  a  milk  route  to  Wilton,  taking  the  route  of  D.  Whiting. 
His  farm  is  large  and  well  cultivated,  with  a  fine  set  of  farm  buildings, 
situated  in  the  extreme  southwest  part  of  the  town.  Children  :  — 

1.  CLARA  J.,  b.  April  17,  1862,  m.  March  27,  1889,  George  E. 

May  of  Wilton.     Res.  in  Wilton. 

2.  ELMER  W.,  b.  Oct.  21,  m.  Oct.  25,  1892,  Cora  Lane 

of  Stoddard.     Res.  in  Wilton. 

3.  ADDIE  A.,  b.  June  3,  1871,  m.   Dr.  M.  B.   Richards.     (See 

Richards  gen.) 

JOHN  HALE  BURTON,  son  of  John  and  Anna  (Kidder)  Burton, 
born  at  Wilton,  Oct.  2,  1843;  married  March  u,  1871,  Clintina,  daughter 
of  David  J.  and  Elizabeth  (Salter)  Carkin.  She  was  born  in  Peterbor- 
ough Oct.  27,  1853.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN  MILO,  b.  Oct.  i,  1871,  m.  Nov.  27,  1895,  Florence  E. 

Jaquith. 

2.  CORA  A.,  b.  May  23,  1873,  m.  August,  1888,  Charles  Green. 

3.  ROY  E.,  b.  April  25,  1875,  m.  August,  1896,  Carrie,  daugh- 

ter of  Sewell   M.    and   Sarah   (Putnam)   Buck.     She  was 
b.  Aug.  30,  1866. 

4.  EDDA  F.,    b,    Nov.    2,    1877,  m-    Nov.    20,    1897,  Clarence 

L,owe.     Children  :  L/ester,  Hazel,  Harold,  Forest. 

5.  MYRTIE  C.,  b.    March  9,   1881,    in.    Perley   Holden.     (See 

Holden  gen.) 

6.  JOSIE  E.,  b.  May  9,  1887. 

BUTLER. 

WILLIAM  BUTLER,  the  ancestor  of  the  Butler  family  of  Lyndebor- 
ough,  lived  at  one  time  in  Gloucester,  Mass.  While  there  he  married 
Sarah  Perkins.  They  afterward  removed  to  Ipswich,  Mass.  Just  how 
many  children  they  had  we  do  not  know,  but  there  were  three  sons  of 
whom  there  is  some  record.  The  dates  of  his  birth  and  death  are  un- 
known. His  wife  died  in  Lyndeborough  in  1821.  The  above  mentioned 
three  sons  were  :  — 

1.  JONATHAN,  -j- 

2.  WILLIAM,  who  entered  the  Continental  Army,  and  is  sup- 

posed to  have  died  of  disease  or  to  have  been  killed,  for  he 
never  was  heard  from. 

3.  JACOB,  also  enlisted   in  the  Continental  Army,  was  taken 


680  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

prisoner,  sent   to   Halifax,  N.  S.,  where  he  died  of  small 
pox. 

JONATHAN  BUTLER,  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Perkins)  Butler; 
born  1758  ;  married  Aug.  17,  1778,  Lois,  daughter  of  John  and  Tryphena 
(Powers)  Kidder.  She  was  born  July  10,  1760;  died  1846;  He  died  Dec. 
5,  1844.  He  was  a  soldier  at  the  Battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  in  the  retreat 
from  that  engagement  was  taken  with  cramps  and  fell  out  of  the 
ranks ;  after  much  suffering  he  crawled  into  a  swamp,  where  he  was  con- 
cealed, and  later  joined  his  company  again.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough 
in  1777,  and  settled  on  land  in  the  westerly  part  of  the  town.  He  was  a 
blacksmith  by  trade,  and  his  daughter  used  to  say  that  the  sound  of  his 
hammer  on  the  anvil  was  the  first  thing  she  heard  in  the  morning  and 
the  last  thing  at  night.  He  was  a  man  of  retiring  manners,  and  much  re- 
spected. He  was  a  constant  attendant  at  church  and  Sunday  School.  He 
sang  and  took  part  in  all  the  services  the  Sunday  but  one  before  he  died. 
Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  Jan.   n,   1779,  in.  first,  Asa  Burroughs,  second, 

Samuel  Rogers,  five  children. 

2.  HANNAH,  b.  Oct.  27,  1780,  m.  Douglass  Robinson,  four  chil- 

dren. 

3.  JACOB,  b.  Dec.  30,  1782,  d.  June  i,  1785. 

4.  JONATHAN,  b.  March  i,  1785,  m.  Patty  Russell,  nine  chil- 

dren. 

5.  L,ois,  b.  April  27,   1787,  m.  Ephraim  Hackett,  eleven  chil- 

dren. 

6.  RACHEL,  b.  July  4,   1789,  m.  James  Cavendish,  nine  chil- 

dren. 

7.  TRYPHENA,  b.  April  2,  1792,  m.  David  Putnam.     (See  Put- 

nam gen.) 

8.  JACOB,  2nd,  -}- 

9.  MARY,  b.  Sept.  4,  1796,  m.  James  White,  twelve  children. 

10.  SUSANNA,  b.  Sept.  23,  1798,  d.  aged  sixteen  years. 

11.  IVUCY,  b.  Jan.  21,  1802,  m.  Nathaniel  Burnham,  one  child. 

12.  WILLIAM,  -f- 

JACOB  BUTLER,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Lois  (Kidder)  Butler;  born  June 
7,  1794  ;  married  Jan.  22,  1818,  Sarah,  daughter  of  —  Blanchard  of  Lynde- 
borough.  She  was  born  May  29,  1793  ;  died  April,  1869.  He  died  April  16, 
1882.  He  was  a  man  who  stood  high  in  the  estimation  of  his  townsmen 
and  in  church  circles.  His  name  frequently  occurs  in  the  records  of  his 
day,  and  he  evidently  was  a  man  of  influence.  When  the  old  church  at 
the  Centre  was  sold,  he  bought  the  historic  structure,  and  taking  it  down 
used  the  material  in  making  him  a  new  barn.  He  served  in  the  War  of 
1812,  and  after  his  return  from  the  army  became  an  energetic  and  thrifty 
farmer.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

i.  JACOB  NEWTON,  b.  Aug.  21,  1819,  d.  Oct.  13,  1819. 


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2.  JACOB  N.,  2nd,  -(- 

3.  JONATHAN,  b.  June  16,  1823,  rem.  to  Nebraska. 

4.  WILLIAM  H.,  b.  Oct.  28,  1825. 

5.  CHARGES  M.,  -f- 

6.  OLNEY  P.,  + 


DR.  WILLIAM  BUTLER,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Lois  (Kidder)  Butler; 
born  April  21,  1805;  married  first,  March  30,  1830,  Nancy  Smith.  She 
died  April  n,  1850,  and  he  married  second,  Oct.  22,  1850,  Mrs.  Ximenia 
P.  King.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  four  children,  one  of  whom  was  Dr. 
William  Morris  Butler  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  took  the  full  course  at 
Dartmouth  Medical  College,  taking  his  degree  in  1830.  He  removed  to 
Maine,  Broom  Co.,  N.  Y.  For  a  period  of  fifty  -five  years  he  diligently 
followed  his  profession,  his  practice  covering  a  vast  extent  of  territory, 
and  in  common  with  all  doctors  in  the  early  settlements,  he  made  his 
visits  on  horseback.  At  80  years  of  age  he  was  still  strong  and  vigorous, 
the  oldest  member  of  the  Broom  County  Medical  Society.  He  was  for 
more  than  forty  years  a  member  and  official  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

DR.  JACOB  NEWTON  BUTLER,  son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah  (Blanchard) 
Butler,  born  Feb.  6,  1821;  married  Harriet  Moore  of  Lempster,  N.  H., 
June  22,  1846.  She  was  born  Feb.  10,  1827.  He  was  educated  at  the  New 
Ipswich  and  Hancock  Academies  and  at  a  preparatory  school  at  Union, 
New  York.  Read  medicine  first  under  the  direction  of  Dr.  John  Ramsey 
of  Greenfield  and  afterwards  at  Peterboro  under  Doctors  Follansbee  and 
Smith.  He  then  studied  with  Dr.  Joseph  Parsons  of  Bennington,  and 
after  attending  several  courses  of  lectures,  graduated  at  Pittsfield,  Mass., 
in  1843,  before  he  was  twenty-three  years  of  age.  In  December  of  that 
year  he  located  at  Lempster,  N.  H.,  where  he  resided  until  his  death 
which  occured  Feb.  16,  1903.  Child  :  — 

i.  GEORGE;  ARTHUR,   b.   May    23,  1850.     Is  a  civil  engineer 
and  res.  in  Chicago,  111. 

CHARLES  M.  BUTLER,  son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah  (Blanchard)  Butler, 
born  Aug.  7,  1827  ;  married  Martha  M.  Weston  of  Newton,  Ohio,  June 
21,  1855.  She  was  born  July  18,  1839.  He  died  May  n,  1903. 

1.  IyU  A.,  b.  April   6,  1871,  ni.  Charles  W.  White   of  Wilton, 

June  29,  1893. 

2.  L/IUJE   M.,    b.  July  14,   1874,  m.   Charles   G.  Carleton  of 

Mt.  Vernon,  Oct.  u,  1894. 

OLNEY  P.  BUTLER,  son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah  (Blanchard)  Butler, 
born  April  22,  1835  ;  married  Hannah  W.  Langdell.  He  died  May  i,  1880. 
Olney  P.  Butler,  together  with  four  of  his  children,  died  of  diphtheria  in 
1880,  within  the  space  of  five  weeks. 

1.  SARAH  A.,  b.  at   L,yndeborough,  Aug.  27,   1856,   m.  1874, 

Joseph  H.  Stickney  of  Tyson,  Vt. 

2.  GEORGE  H.,  + 

3.  CARRIE  L>,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  July  7,  1861,  m.  Dec.  20, 


682  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

1884,  Edward  H.  Spofford  of   Greenfield.     She  d.  March 

28,  1890. 

4.  NELLIE   P-.  b.  at  Greenfield,  June  10,  1863,  m.  Nov.  30, 

1882,  Charles   H.  Scott  of   Tyson,  Vt.     She   d.  May  30, 
1883. 

5.  WILLIAM  L,.,  b.  at  L,yndeborough,  March  5,  1865,  d.  April 

29,  1880. 

6.  L,IZZIE  H.,  b.  at  L,yndeborough,  Jan.  28,  1870,  d.  April  20, 

1880. 

7.  WALTER  S.,  b.  at  I^yndeborough,  Oct,   19,    1876,  d.  March 

30,  1880. 

8.  MARK  W.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  Feb.  17,  1878,  d.  April  5, 

1880. 

GEORGE  H.  BUTLER,  son  of  Olney  P.  and  Hannah  (Langdell) 
Butler,  born  at  Lyndeborough,  March  19,  1858;  married  Sept.  15,  1881, 
Myra  A.  Carpenter  of  Surrey,  Vt.  Children  born  at  Lyndeborough  : — 

1.  HERVEY  L,.,  b.    Dec.  22,  1885. 

2.  HAROLD  A.,  b.  Feb.  14,  1890. 

BUTTERFlElvD. 

DAVID  BUTTERFIELD  lived  in  town  at  one  time  and  his  children 
were  born  here.  He  married  Miriam  Durant.  She  was  born  in  1775; 
died  in  Francestown,  Feb.  2,  1848.  He  was  born  1775  and  died  at  Lynde- 
borough, Feb.  18,  1812,  of  spotted  fever.  He  was  the  grandfather  of 
David  "  Newton  "  Butterfield  of  New  Boston.  Children  born  at  Lynde- 
borough  : — 

1.  SARAH,  m.  Brackley  Rose  (See  Rose  gen.) 

2.  HANNAH. 

3.  JANE,  m.  Benjamin  Ames. 

4.  LUCY,  m.  Nathaniel  Bruce. 

5.  OLIVE,  m.  Hiram  Dodge. 

CARKIN. 

The  first  record  of  the  Carkin  family  in  Lyndeborough  is  the  birth  of 
John,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  Sept.  9,  1765.  Elizabeth  Carkin 
died  Nov.  10,  1829,  *n  the  eighty-eighth  year  of  her  age.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  Chamberlain  Cram.  John  Carkin  died 
March  2,  1799,  in  the  sixty-fourth  year  of  his  age.  John  and  his  wife, 
Elizabeth,  appear  to  have  been  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in  town. 
John  and  Isaac  Carkin  are  credited  to  Lyndeborough,  as  Revolutionary 
soldiers.  Isaac  was  probably  a  brother  of  John.  Among  the  older  mem- 
bers of  the  family,  there  is  a  story  current  of  the  origin  of  the  name 
Carkin,  whether  true  or  not  it  is  quaint  and  interesting.  It  is  said  that 
two  little  boys  were  secretly  placed  on  board  a  ship  bound  for  America. 
They  were  not  discovered  until  too  late  to  put  back.  These  young  stowa- 
ways were  unable  to  give  much  of  an  account  of  themselves  or  tell  their 


GENEALOGIES  683 

names,  and  were  made  to  carry  water  to  the  sailors  and  in  other  ways  to 
work  their  passage.  They  carried  the  liquid  in  tin  cans,  and  soon  were 
known  as  the  little  "  carrycans "  and  from  thence  the  name  Carkin. 
Isaac  and  John  were  said  to  be  sons  or  grandsons  of  one  of  the  little 
"  carrycans."  There  arc  four  children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  recorded  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  b.  Sept.  9,  1765,  drowned  July  9,  1777. 

2.  AARON,  -f- 

3.  PRUDENCE,  b.  Sept.  2,  1774. 

4.  ELIZABETH.     The  marriage  intention  of  Ephraim  Putnam, 

third,  and  Elizabeth  Carkin  is  recorded  Nov.  6,  1794. 

AARON  CARKIN,  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Carkin,  born  Nov.  13, 
1767;  married  Dec.  15,  1791,  Betsey  Duncklee  of  Amherst.  She  died 
Nov.  30,  1845.  He  died  Feb.  19,  1852.  Children  : — 

1.  JOHN,  b.  Oct.  19,  1792,  m.  Betsey  Smith.     Rem.  to  Benning- 

ton  where  he  was  extensively  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  gunpowder.     He  d.  Oct.  25,  1883. 

2.  ELIZABETH,  b.  May  6,  1794,  d.  June  4,  1794. 

3.  BETSEY,  b.  Jan.  30,  1796,  m.  Oliver   Fales.     Rem.  to   Ded- 

ham,  Mass.,  d.  Dec.  30,  1820. 

4.  CLARISSA,  b.  Nov.   13,   1797,  m.  Asher   Curtis,  d.  Dec.  8, 

1880.     (See  Curtis  gen.) 

5.  MEHITABLE,  b.  Aug.  14,  1799,  m.  John  Hartshorn,  d.  Feb. 

19,  1 88 1.     (See  Hartshorn  gen.) 

6.  AARON,  b.  July  22,  1801.     Was  badly  burned  by  an  explos- 

ion of  gun  powder  at  Bennington  and  died  ten  days  later, 
Oct.  13,  1828. 

7.  NATHANIEL  C.,  + 

8.  DAVID,  -f- 

9.  JESSE  D.,  b.  Nov.  20,  1807,  m.  Sarah  Hutchinson  of  Wilton. 

10.  CLEMENT,  b.  Oct.,  1808,  d.  Nov,  20,  1808. 

11.  CHARLES,  b.  March  12,  1811,  d.  April  8,  1888. 

NATHANIEL  C.  CARKIN,  son  of  Aaron  and  Betsey  (Duncklee) 
Carkin,  born  Oct.  28,  1803 ;  married  Feb.  23,  1830,  Betsey  T.  Odell  of 
Mont  Vernon  ;  second,  Elizabeth  Brown  of  Amherst.  Betsey  (Odell) 
Carkin  died  Feb.  27,  1864.  Children  by  first  wife  : — 

1.  AARON,  b.  Dec.  31,  1831,  d.  Jan.  9,  1832. 

2.  SOPHRONIA,  b.  June  27,  1833,  m.  March  9,   1864,  Ezra  M. 

Farnum. 

3.  NANCY,  b.    May   27,   1837,   m.    Leonard   G.    Brown.     (See 

Brown  gen.) 

DAVID  CARKIN,  son  of  Aaron  and  Betsey  (Duncklee)  Carkin,  born 
Jan.  i,  1806 ;' married  Dec.  27,  1827,  Lydia,  daughter  of  William  and 


684  H1STOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

Eunice  (Cram)  Abbott.     She  was  born  June  5,  1809 ;  died  Sept.  15,  1895. 
He  died  July  6,  1892.     Children  :— 

1.  DAVID  J.,   -f- 

2.  LYDIA  J.,  b.  June  27,  1831,  m.,  first,  Oct.  27,  1851,  Franklin 

Towns  of  Milford  ;  second,  Jerome  Weston  of  Mason. 

3.  JOHN  C.,  + 

DAVID  J.  CARKIN,  son  of  David  and  Lydia  (Abbott)  Carkin,  born 
July  17,  1827;  married  Elizabeth  Salter  of  Mount  Holley,  Vt.  He  died 
Nov.  16,  1878,  in  Louisiana.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See 
Chap.  X.)  Children:— 

1.  CLINTINA,  b.  in  Peterborough,  Oct  27,   1853,  m.  John  H. 

Burton  of  L,yudeborough.     (See  Burton  gen.) 

2.  GEORGE,  b.  April  24,  1857,  m.  Hattie  M.  Stone  of  Royal- 

ston,  Mass.     She  was  b.  Oct.  15,  1862,  m.  July  4,  1882. 

JOHN  C.  CARKIN,  son  of  David  and  Lydia  C.  (Abbott;  Carkin,  born 
March  7,  1844 ;  married  Dec.  30,  1866,  Ellen  E.,  daughter  of  Zadoc  and 
Ellinor  (Sanboru)  Jones  of  Milford.  She  was  born  Oct.  29,  1846.  He 
was  a  soldier  iu  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X.)  Was  ^moderator  of  the 
town  meetings  for  many  years.  Resides  at  So.  Lyndeborough.  Chil- 
dren : — 

1.  MEDIE   A.,  b.  Oct.  12,  1867,    m.  first,   John  L,.  Trask  of 

Marrons,  Conn.  ;  second,  Bradley  L.  Hay  ward  of  Brockton, 
Mass.  ;  third,  Fred  Waterhouse  of  Brockton,  Mass. 

2.  JOHN  A..  -\- 

3.  MERRILL   F.,  b.  Nov.  25,   1869,  m.  Aug.  16,   1894,  Jennie, 

daughter  of  William  H.  and  Eliza  A.  (Dale)  Doe  of  Read- 
ing, Mass.     Child  :  Evelyn  G. 

4.  FRED  E.  + 

5.  WILLIE  C.,  -|- 

JOHN  A.  CARKIN,  son  of  John  C.  and  Ellen  E.  (Jones)  Carkin,  born 
Sept.  10,  1868  ;  married  Minnie  R.,  daughter  of  John  H.  and  Sabra  Anna 
(Lewis)  Day  of  Greenfield,  June  23,  1889.  She  was  born  Sept.  20,  1872. 
Children  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  : — 

1.  HENRY  A.,  b.  Nov.  7,  1892. 

2.  BELLE  E.,  b.  Oct.  23,  1894. 

3.  CARROLL  C.,  b.  March  30,  1897. 

4.  EDGAR  L,.,  b.  Feb.  12,  1899. 

5.  SABRA  E.,  b.  April  13,  1901. 

6.  lyYDiA  R.,  b.  at  Greenland,  N.  H.,  Aug.  31,  1903. 

FRED  E.  CARKIN,  son  of  John  C.  and  Ellen  E.  (Jones)  Carkin,  born 
Jan.  25,  1871  ;  married  March  31,  1894,  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Edwin  and 
Enimeline  (Wilkins)  Kinney'of  Peterborough.  Children  : — 

i.  NELLIE  E.,  b.  at  L/yndeborough,  Feb.  27,  1895. 


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2.  GEORGE,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  April  20,  1897. 

3.  ISAAC  B.,  b.  at  Harrisville,  April  24,  1899,  d.  Sept.  4,  1899. 

4.  Annie  R.,  b.  at  Harrisville,  June  13,  1900. 

5.  EDITH  M.,  b.  at  Harrisville,  Oct.  15,  1901. 

6.  KATHLEEN  E.,  b.  at  Harrisville,  Feb.  20,  1903. 

7.  JOHN  R.,  b.  at  L,yndeborough,  April  27,  1904. 

WILLIE  C.  CARKIN,  son  of  John  C.  and  Ellen  E.  (Jones)  Carkin, 
born  Oct.  7,  1873 ;  married  Dec.  19,  1893,  Anna  E.,  daughter  of  Charles 
A.  and  Ann  B.  (Butler,)  Barrett  of  Antrim.  She  was  born  June  4,  1871. 
Children :  — 

1.  ROBERT  C.,  b.  Sept.  16,  1894. 

2.  GERALD,  b.  Oct.  2,  1901. 

CARLETON. 

One  of  the  most  notable  families  among  the  early  settlers  of  Salem- 
Canada  was  the  Carleton  family.  Joseph  Carleton,  their  immigrant  ances- 
tor, came  to  this  country  from  England  and  settled  in  Newburyport, 
Mass.  He  married  Abigail  Osgood  and  they  had  six  children  born  to 
them,  David,  Jonathan,  Moses,  Jeremiah,  Mary  and  Abigail.  It  is  sup- 
posed that  these  children  were  born  in  Newburyport,  Mass. 

JEREMIAH  CARLETON,  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  (Osgood)  Carle- 
ton,  born  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  in  1715  ;  married  Eunice  Taylor,  who 
was  born  in  1717.  They  lived  in  Newtown,  now  Amesbury,  Mass.,  where 
part  of  his  children  were  born.  His  business  was  that  of  a  carpenter, 
millwright  and  lumber  dealer.  About  the  year  1750,  he  removed  to 
Litchfield,  N.  H.,  and  six  years  later  in  the  fall  he  came  to  Salem-Canada 
and  pitched  his  camp  on  land  now  owned  by  E.  C.  Curtis.  It  was  built 
beside  a  big  rock  situated  about  30  rods  from  the  northeast  corner  of 
said  land.  The  remains  of  the  stone  fire  dogs  and  cellar  hole  may  still 
be  seen.  He  began  his  clearing  among  the  big  hemlocks  on  the  flat  the 
other  side  of  the  brook  and  worked  at  it  during  the  fall  and  winter, 
and  in  the  spring  went  back  to  his  family  presumably  at  Litchfield. 
While  he  was  in  camp  that  winter  some  hunters  drove  a  lot  of  deer  into 
the  big  brook  near  by  and  getting  fire  from  his  camp  they  killed  a  num- 
ber. They  stayed  with  him  all  night,  and  in  the  morning  took  the  hides 
of  the  deer,  leaving  him  with  a  plentiful  supply  of  venison.  He  re- 
turned with  his  family  that  year  and  is  supposed  to  have  built  him  a 
cabin,  but  Indians  killed  his  stock  and  burned  his  cabin  and  he  was 
forced  to  leave  and  did  not  return  until  two  years  later  in  1760.  When 
he  returned,  if  he  cleared  20  acres  of  land  and  built  a  framed  house  of 
certain  dimensions  he  was  to  have  60  acres  6f  land,  and  if  he  built  a 
saw-mill  he  was  to  have  60  acres  more  for  that.  He  built  his  house 
about  loo  rods  northeast  of  E.  C.  Curtis' s  brick  house,  and  near  the 
brook.  He  hewed  all  the  timber  for  his  house  from  oak  logs  and  those 
timbers  are  sound  to-day. 

He  built  the  saw-mill  in  1761  and  1762.  It  was  situated  about  30  rods 
below  the  bridge  on  the  road  from  Johnson's  Corner  to  Wilton.  In  this 
mill  the  boards  were  sawed  to  finish  his  house.  The  mill  did  a  good 


686  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

business  as  long  as  he  was  able  to  run  it.  He  cleared  the  land  and  had 
8  acres  of  corn  planted  among  the  stumps  the  first  year.  The  bears 
were  numerous  and  took  toll  of  the  corn  and  live  stock.  The  Carletons 
were  at  work  among  the  corn  one  day,  when  they  heard  the  hog  squeal. 
The  old  man  ran  to  the  rescue  but  too  late  to  save  the  hog,  but  the  women 
folks  had  run  with  their  hemlock  brooms  and  had  scared  a  bear  away 
from  the  carcass.  Jeremiah  wa's  indignant  that  he  should  lose  the, 
chance  to  shoot  the  bear,  but  they  had  fresh  pork  for  awhile.  He  died 
in  1769.  His  wife  survived  him  about  25  years.  She  was  a  very  religious 
woman  and  used  to  walk  to  Amherst,  6  miles,  to  attend  church,  guiding 
her  way  by  marked  trees.  They  had  seven  children  :  — 

1.  OSGOOD,    -f- 

2.  JEREMIAH,  -(- 

3.  MARY,  m.  Reuben  Bachelder  and  rem.  to  Warren,   N.  H., 

where  they  lived  and  died. 

4.  ABIGAIL,  m.  first,  Adam  Johnson,  second,  "Ensign  "David 

Putnam.     Mr.  Johnson  died  or  was  killed  while  in  the  army 
during  the  Revolutionary  War. 

5.  TIMOTHY.     Was  killed  by  the  accident  at  the  raising  of  the 

Wilton  church  in  1774. 

6.  DAVID.     Killed  in  the  army  during  the  Revolutionary  War. 

(See  Chapter  VII.) 

7.  EBENEZER.     After  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  in 

which  he  took  part  (See  Chapter  VII),  he  came  home  and 
settled  in  Chester,  N.  H.,  and  d.  in  1840. 

OSGOOD  CARIyETON,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Eunice  (Taylor)  Carleton 
born  in  Newtown,  or  Amesbury,  Mass.,  in  1741,  and  came  to  Lyndeborough 
with  his  father.  He  was  a  fine  mechanic  and  a  great  mathematician. 
He  cleared  a  piece  of  land  about  half  a  mile  south  of  the  old  meeting 
house  and  built  a  house  and  lived  in  it  some  years.  The  site  is  grown  up 
to  wood  now.  He  did  a  large  business  in  surveying,  laying  out  the  towns 
around  in  lots,  both  in  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont.  He  published 
some  works  on  navigation  and  made  almanacs.  He  taught  a  select  school 
of  high  order  and  once  when  the  committee  visited  it  they  found  every- 
thing satisfactory,  but  said  they  wished  to  ask  him  one  question.  They 
said  they  had  been  told  that  he  never  went  to  school  a  day  in  his  life 
and  wished  to  know  if  it  was  true.  He  said  that  it  was  so.  He^urveyed 
and  drew  the  plans  for  the  forts  to  protect  Boston  harbor  and  did  other 
surveying  for  the  government.  One  of  his  pupils  in  Boston  was  Robert 
B.  Thomas  of  "  Farmers'  Almanac  "  fame.  Mr.  Carleton  taught  him  how 
make  almanacs  and  indeed  made  the  calculations  for  the  first  "  Farmers' 
Almanac"  himself.  The  story  is  told  that  everything  was  finished  and 
ready  for  the  printer  but  the  weather  predictions,  and  Mr.  Carleton  told 
his  daughter,  a  lively  girl  of  sixteen,  that  she  might  add  them. 
In  a  spirit  of  mischief  she  predicted  a  thunder  storm  in  January  and  a 
snowstorm  in  June.  When  the  book  was  printed  Mr.  Carleton 
reproached  his  daughter  for  having  ruined  the  venture,  but  as  it  hap- 


GENEALOGIES  687 

pened,  a  thunder  storm  did  come  in  January,  and  one  morning  in 
June  the  girl  arose  and  found  flakes  of  snow  falling.  She  called  her 
father  to  see.  The  reputation  of  the  "  Farmers'  Almanac  "  was  made  for 
all  time.  He  was  also  a  cunning  hunter  and  trapper.  (See  p.  118.) 

Osgood  had  two  sons  and  one  or  more  daughters.  His  wife  died  in 
Lyndeborough.  After  his  wife's  death  he  went  to  live  with  his  son  in 
Massachusetts.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  (See  Chap. 
VII.) 

JEREMIAH  CARLETON,  second  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Eunice  (Taylor) 
Carleton,  was  born  in  Newtown  in  1743 ;  married  Lois  Hoyt,  born  in  New- 
buryport  in  1746.  He  lived  with  his  father  until  he  was  sixteen,  and  then 
enlisted  in  the  army.  The  year  after  his  discharge,  1760,  he  went  to  work 
as  an  apprentice  to  learn  the  ship  carpenters'  trade,  presumably  in 
Newburyport,  and  stayed  there  until  1771,  when  he  removed  with  his 
family  to  the  farm  left  by  his  father  in  Lyndeborough,  but  in  a  year  or 
two  went  back  to  Newburyport,  Mass.  When  the  Revolutionary  War 
came  on,  there  being  no  work  at  ship  carpentering,  he  again  returned  to 
the  farm.  After  the  war  he  lived  the  remainder  of  his  life  on  the  farm. 
(For  military  record  see  Chap.  VII.)  They  had  eleven  children:  — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  1768,  came  with  her  father 

to  L/yndeborough  when  three  years  old,  m.  1795,  William 
Richardson,  and  removed  to  Barre,  Vt.;  two  children. 

2.  JEREMIAH,  b.  1770,  in  Newburyport,  d.  an  infant. 

3.  JEREMIAH,  2nd,  b.  in  L/yndeborough  May  10,  1772,  m.  1798, 

Deborah  Edwards,  and  removed  to  Barre,  Vt.;    nine  chil- 
dren. 

3.  TIMOTHY,  b.  June  i,  1774,  m.   1801,  Miss  Huzza,  and  re- 
moved to  Barre,  Vt.;  seven  children. 

5.  L/ois,  b.  Mar.  2,  1776,  m.  Caleb  Taft  and  removed  to  Barre, 

Vt.;  six  children. 

6.  MARY,  b.  Aug.  3,  1779,  m.  1799,  John  Harwood  ;  removed  to 

Mont  Vernon  ;  six  children. 

7.  BETTY,  b.  Apr.  19,  1781. 

8.  RHODA,  b.  June  27,  1783,  m.  1806,  Henry  Cram. 

9.  HANNAH,  b.  Sept.  16,  1785. 

10.  DUDLEY,  -f- 

11.  MOSES,  b.  Sept.  7,  1792,  m.  1818,  Chloe  Batchelder,  lived 
at   Amherst   and  New  Ipswich,  and  1832  removed  to  Os- 
wego,  N.  Y. 

DUDLEY  CARLETON,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Lois  (Hoyt)  Carleton  ; 
born  June  23,  1788;  married  Dec.  24,  1817,  Eliza,  daughter  of  John  and 
Ruth  (Southwick)  Proctor  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Mar.  8,  1796; 
died  at  Amherst,  June  9,  1867.  He  died  Nov.  19,  1873.  He  settled  on 
the  old  homestead  farm  to  take  care  of  his  parents.  He  built  the  brick 
house  uow  owned  and  occupied  by  E-  C.  Curtis.  (Mr.  Curtis  owns  prac- 


688  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

tically  all  of  the  Carleton  farm.)  In  1833  he  sold  part  of  the  farm  with 
the  brick  house  to  Amaziah  Blanchard,  and  the  rest  to  James  O'Donnell, 
and  in  1834  removed  to  Francestown,  where  he  lived  until  1838,  when  he 
removed  to  Amherst,  where  he  died.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  b.  July  16,   1819,  m.  May  13,  1858,   Mary  P.,  dau. 

of  Abel  and  Polly  (Proctor)  Hill  of  Lyndeborough.  She 
was  b.  Jan.  15,  1822.  One  son,  John  S.,  b.  at  Frances- 
town,  May  18,  1861,  d.  at  Amherst,  Aug.  14,  1887.  John 
Carleton  d.  in  Amherst,  July  31,  1891. 

2.  ELIZA,  b.  Jan.  27,  1824. 

3.  MARY  Lois,  b.  Nov.  12,  1827,  m.  May  9,  1861,  L/uther  Cog- 

gin,  Jr.,  of  Amherst.     Res.  at  Amherst. 

CARR. 

CHARLES  CARR,  and  Rosa,  his  wife,  resided  in  Lyndeborough  for  a 
number  of  years,  removing  to  Wilton.  They  had  two  children  born  in 
Lyndeborough. 

1.  C.  LORENZO,  b.  Oct.  25,  1882. 

2.  Annis  R.  b.  March  4,  1887. 

CARSON. 

WILLIAM  CARSON  was  the  first  of  that  name  to  settle  in  Lyndebor- 
ough.  He  was  born  in  Scotland  in  1722.  He  was  a  brother  or  nephew  of 
John  Carson,  the  first  settler  in  Francestown.*  He  lived  in  Francestown 
for  a  time,  and  then  removed  to  Johnson's  Corner.  He  probably  came 
here  in  1774  or  1775.  He  married  Isabelle,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
Johnson,  and  settled  on  land  which  is  now  the  farm  owned  by  Mrs.  Kil- 
burn  S.  Curtis.  He  built  the  house  which  has  been  remodeled  into  the 
present  building.  He  died  in  1818,  aged  96.  They  had  four  children, 
some  of  them  said  to  have  been  born  in  Francestown  :  — 

1.  WILLIAM,  -|- 

2.  ROBERT,  -}- 

3.  MARY,  -f 

4.  ASA,  -\- 

WILLIAM  CARSON,  son  of  William  and  Isabelle  (Johnson)  Carson ; 
born  1754;  married  Abigail,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  Harwood  of 
Mont  Vernon.  The  father  died  a  short  time  before  the  birth  of  the 
youngest  child,  1797.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  -f- 

2.  WILLIAM,  b.  1797,  m.  Dorcas  Russell.     They  had  two  chil- 

dren, Eliza  A.  and  Lafayette.  Eliza  A.,  m.  Anson  French 
of  Wilton.  Lafayette  d.  unm. 

*There  is  a  variance  of  the  records  furnished  me  by  a  descendant  of  the  family  (Mrs. 
W.  1).  Hooper  of  Mont  Vernon)  and  those  published  in  the  Francestown  History.  She 
insists  that  John  of  Francestown  never  married,  and  that  John,  William  and  Robert 
were  his  nephews.  It  is  immaterial  to  this  History  to  enter  into  a  controversy  in  regard 
to  it. 


HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH  689 

JOHN  CARSON,  son  of  William  and  Abigail  (Harwood)  Carson ;  born 
Sept.  10,  1792;  married  1813,  Hannah  Austin  of  Methuen,  Mass.  They 
had  four  children,  two  dying  in  infancy  and  two  sons  living  to  man- 
hood :  — 

1.  JOHN  JOHNSON,  + 

2.  ALEXANDER,  -f- 

JOHN  JOHNSON  CARSON,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  (Austin)  Car- 
son, born  March  3,  1816 ;  married  June,  1840,  Sarah,  daughter  of  James 
and  Azubah  (Curtis)  Hopkins  of  Mont  Vernon.  She  was  born  March 

12,  1816 ;  died  Nov.  18,  1887.     He  died  Sept.  16,  1896.     Children  : 

» 

1.  SARAH  F.,  b.  March,  1841,  d.  July,  1842. 

2.  EMILY  F.,  b.  Jan.  16,  1843,  m.  David  Upton,  Sept.  7,  1854. 

Res.  in  New  Boston. 

3.  ADONIRAM  J.,  b.  March  27,  1845,  d.  September,  1847. 

4.  GEORGE  J.,  + 

5.  HANNAH  J.,  b.  Feb.  2,  1851,  d.  August,  1853. 

6.  HATTIE  J.,  b.  Oct.  19,  1852,  m.  Ira  Parker  of  Mont  Vernon 

June  24,  1878,  d.  June  26,  1881. 

7.  FRANK  P.,  b.  March  26,  1855,  m.  Eda  M.  Carson,  Aug.  24, 

1880. 

GEORGE  J.  CARSON,  son  of  John  J.  and  Sarah  (Hopkins)  Carson, 
born  Oct.  19,  1848  in  Mont  Vernon  ;  married  June  14,  1877,  Laura  A., 
daughter  of  David  D.  and  Sophronia  (Dickinson)  Clark  of  Lyndebor- 
ough.  She  was  born  March  7,  1852 ;  died  Nov.  24,  1903.  Children  : 

1.  ROY  C.,  b.  in  Mont  Vernon,  Dec.  8,  1879. 

2.  CORA  A.,  b.  in  Mont  Vernon,  Sept.  20,  1881,  d.   March  5, 

1889. 

3.  HATTIE  M.,  b.  at  New  Boston,  Aug.  13,  1883. 

ALEXANDER  CARSON,  son  of  John  and  Hannah  (Austin)  Carson, 
born  Dec.  17,  1822 ;  married  Dec.  20,  1843,  Margaretta  C.,  daughter  of 
James  and  Azubah  (Curtis)  Hopkins  of  Mont  Vernon.  She  was  born  Dec. 
14,  1822.  Children  born  in  Lyndeborough  : 

i  &  2.  HELEN  and   ELLEN,  twins,  b.  Sept.    30,   1844.     Ellen 
d.  May  3,  1859,  Helen  d.  Oct.  14,  1867. 

3.  MARTHA  A.,  b.  Feb.  28,  1846,  m.  May  9,  1878,  Wallace  D. 

Hooper,  and  res.  in  Mont  Vernon. 

4.  JOHN  W.,   b.   Nov.    16,   1847,    m.  Dec.  24,   1884,  Julia   A. 

Dodge  of  Francestown,  res.  in  Francestown. 

5.  ABBIE  L,.,  b.  June  9,  1853,  d.  Oct.  14,  1867. 

6.  ALWILDA  J.,  b.  July  i,  1854,  d.  Oct.  17,  1867. 

7.  NETTIE  M.,  b.,  Feb.  20,  1860,  in  Mont  Vernon,  m.  March 

29,  1898,  Nathaniel  F.  Hooper,  res.  in  Mont  Vernon. 


690  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

8.  THERESA  D.,  b.  May  6,  1861,  in  Mont  Vernon,  d.  June  6, 

1868. 

ROBERT  CARSON,  son  of  William  and  Isabelle  (Johnson)  Carson. 
We  have  been  unable  to  find  any  record  of  his  family.  He  married  and 
raised  a  family  here,  living  on  the  Charles  L.  Perham  farm.  He  is  said 
to  have  removed  with  his  family  to  Barre,  Vt.,  and  to  have  been  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  that  place. 

MARY  CARSON,  daughter  of  William  and  Isabelle  (Johnson)  Car- 
son;  married  Amos  Wilkins.  They  had  five  children,  Amos,  Mary, 
Isabelle,  Simon  and  Mark.  Mary  and  Isabelle  married  two  brothers  by 
the  name  of  Stone  and  went  to  Swampscott,  Mass.  Simon  and  Mark 
also  settled  there  or  in  Lynn,  Mass.  Amos  Wilkins  left  his  family  for 
some  reason  and  was  never  heard  from. 

ASA  CARSON,  son  of  William  and  Isabelle  (Johnson)  Carson,  married 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Harwood)  Lynch.  (This  widow  Lynch  had  one  daugh- 
ter, Artemesia,  who  married  Capt.  Ebenezer  Russell  of  Lyndeborough.) 
Asa  Carson  and  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  had  seven  children  born  to  them, 
none  of  them  born  at  Lyndeborough.  The  Harwood  sisters,  who  mar- 
ried William  and  Asa  Carson,  were  sisters  of  Andrew  Harwood  of  Perham 
Corner,  and  daughters  of  John  and  Abigail  (Hastings)  Harwood  of  Mont 
Vernon. 

CARYL. 

JOHN  CARYL,  born  Sept.  16,  1791 ;  married  Lucy  Clark,  May,  1818. 
She  was  born  Aug.  3,  1800;  died  May  14,  1835.  He  died  May  30.  1882. 
Children : 

1.  JOHN  C.,  b.  May  20,  1819. 

2.  WILLIAM  B.,  b.  Dec.  4,  1820. 

3.  NANCY,  b.  Jan.  29,  1823. 

4.  OLIVE,  b.  June  5,  1825. 

5.  CHRISTANNA,  b.  July  16,  1827. 

6.  BENJAMIN  W.,  b.  Dec.  i,  1829. 

7.  LUCY  H.,  b.  June  27,  1832. 

CHAMBERLAIN. 

The  name  Chamberlain  appears  very  early  in  the  history  of  Salem- 
Canada.  Jonathan  Chamberlain  was  the  son  of  Capt.  Samuel  and  Abi- 
gail (Hill)  Chamberlain  of  Chelmsford,  Mass.  He  was  born  there  Feb. 
ii,  1711.  On  May  12,  1737,  his  father  deeded  him  for  "love  and  natural 
affection"  a  number  of  lots  of  land  in  Tyngs  Township  which  "  lyeth 
on  the  east  side  of  Merrimack  river  between  Suncook  or  Lovell's  town 
(now  Pembroke)  and  Litchfield."  On  Aug.  21,  1739,  he  sold  this  land  to 
James  Anderson  of  Londonderry.  In  that  same  year  (1739),  he  removed 
to  Salem-Canada.  In  1740  or  1741  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
John  and  Sarah  Cram.  They  were  his  predecessors  by  one  or  two  years 
in  the  township.  It  is  evident  that  he  returned  to  Chelmsford,  Mass., 
and  lived  there  for  awhile,  for  their  children  are  recorded  as  born  in 
Chelmsford.  But  Mr.  Rufus  Chamberlain  believes  they  were  born  in 


GENEALOGIES  691 

Salem-Canada,  and  there  being  no  township  records  kept,  they  were 
recorded  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.  It  is  a  fact  that  the  older  children  of 
the  daughters  of  John  Cram  are  recorded  in  the  towns  where  their 
husbands  came  "from.  April  8,  1768,  Jonathan  Chamberlain  received 
from  the  heirs  of  Joseph  Cram  of  Lyndeborough,  a  deed  of  the  south 
part  of  Lot  No.  41,  containing  seventy-five  acres.  The  consideration 
being,  "the  caring  for  and  giving  Christian  burial  to  Joseph  Cram." 
This  farm  is  the  one  where  Rufus  Chamberlain  now  lives.  Jonathan 
Chamberlain  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  He,  together  with  his  son, 
Jonathan  Jr.,  enlisted  in  Capt.  Peter  Clark's  Company,  and  marched 
from  Lyndeborough  for  Ticonderoga,  July  i,  1777.  (See  Chap.  VII.) 
He  was  prominent  in  shaping  the  policy  and  management  of  the  new 
town,  and  endured  the  hardships  of  frontier  life.  His  wife  was  born 
1721,  and  died  April  30,  1806.  He  died  Jan.  19,  1795.  Children : — 

1.  ELIZABETH,  born  April  30,  1742. 

2.  JONATHAN,  + 

3.  SAMUEL,  + 

4.  OLIVE,  b.  Aug.  16,  1750,  m.  Benjamin  Cram. 

5.  SARAH,  b.  April  6,  1753,  d.  Jan.  5,  1797. 

6.  MOLLY,  b.  May  10,  1756. 

7.  JOHN,  -f 

8.  ABIGAIL,  b.  July  8,  1763. 

JONATHAN  CHAMBERLAIN,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Cram) 
Chamberlain,  born  Feb.  26,  1743-4 ;  married  July  13,  1768,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  Cram  and  Elizabeth,  his  wife.  She  was  born  1748. 
Like  his  father  he  was  a  soldier  in  the  Continental  army.  He  died  April 
26,  1815.  Children  :  — 

1.  BENJAMIN,  b.  April  7,  1770,  m,  Joanna  Herrick.     Rem.  to 

Gardiner,  Me. 

2.  JONATHAN,  b.  March  17,  1772.     Rem.  to  Hanover,  N.  H., 

and  was  the  father  of  Eliza  Chamberlain,  who  lived  at  the 
centre  for  many  years. 

3.  JOHN,    b.    March   26,    1774,  m.    Abigail   Brown.     Rem.   to 

Hallowell,  Me. 

4.  ELIZABETH,  b.  June  3,  1776,  m.  Samuel  Woodward.     (See 

Woodward  gen.) 

5.  DAVID,  b.  Dec.  3,  1778. 

6.  DANIEL,  + 

7.  MARGARET,  b.  Dec.  28,  1783,  m. Cole. 

8.  OLIVE,  b.    Aug.    4,    1788,    m.    Ephraim   Woodward.     (See 

Woodward  gen.) 

9.  NATHANIEL,  b.  March  3,  1791,  m.   1816,  Mary  Knapp.     He 

rem.  to  Covington,  Ky.;  later  to  Hudson,  Mich.;  d.  Toledo, 
O.,  March  20,  1857. 


692  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

10.  ASA,  b.  April  10,  1793. 

11.  JOSEPH,  b.   Nov.    12,    1795,  m.  Burton.     Rem.   to 

Mason. 

DANIEL  CHAMBERLAIN,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Margaret  (Cram) 
Chamberlain,  b.  March  6,  1781 ;  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Daniel 
and  Patience  Pearsons  of  Lyndeborough.  She  died  July  29,  1873.  He 
removed  to  Woburn,  Mass.,  where  he  died  May  5,  1874.  Children  re- 
corded as  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  HANNAH,  b.  Dec.  14,  1815. 

2.  CHLOE,  b.  June  23,  1817. 

3.  DIANTHA,  b.  Aug.  27,  1819. 

4.  AMANDA,  b.  Nov.  n,  1824. 

5.  DANIEL,  b.  Oct.  30,  1826. 

SAMUEL  CHAMBERLAIN,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Cram) 
Chamberlain,  born  April  4,  1745;  married  first,  Hannah,  who  died  Sept. 
25,  1784;  second,  Naomi  Richardson.  He  died  in  1812  or  1813,  and  his 
widow,  Naomi,  died  in  1850  or  1851.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Continental 
Army.  (See  Chapter  VII.)  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  HANNAH,  b.  April  28,  1775,  m. Burnham.     Rem.  to 

Greenfield. 

2.  ELIZABETH,  b.  May  8,  1777,  d.  June  13,  1780. 

3.  SAMUEL,  + 

4.  AMY,  b.  Feb.  14,  1781. 

5.  BETSEY,  b.  April  18,  1783. 

6.  BENJAMIN,  b.  Jan.  30,   1786,  m.  Ordway.     Rem.  to 

New  York. 

7.  RACHEL,  b.  Oct.  6,  1787,  m.  Thomas  Dutton. 

8.  JOSEPH,  -|- 

9.  PETER,  b.  Nov.  9,  1791.     Rem.  to  New  York. 

10.  NAOMI,  b.  Nov.  25,  1793. 
By  second  wife  :  — 

11.  SILAS,  b.  Feb.  20,  1797. 

12.  SARAH,  b.  April  10,  1800. 

13.  PHINEAS  A.,  b.  April  4,  1802,  d.  March  10,  1803. 

14.  L/EVi,,  b.  June  29,  1804.     Rem.  to  New  Boston. 

15.  OLIVE,  b.  Oct.  5,  1807,  d.  young. 

SAMUEL  CHAMBERLAIN,  son  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  Chamberlain, 
born  May  4,  1779 ;  married  first,  Olive ;  second,  Hepsibah . 

Children :  — 

1.  EDA,  b.  Dec.  21,  1810. 

2.  WILLIAM,  b.  Oct.  18,  1812. 


GENEALOGIES  693 

3.  PHILLIP,  b.  July  25,  1814. 

4.  HANNAH,  b.  March  12,  1816. 
By  second  wife  :  — 

5.  HEMAN  SARGENT,  b.  Feb.  16,  1820. 

JOSEPH  CHAMBERLAIN,  son  of  Samuel  and  Naomi  (Richardson) 
Chamberlain,  born  Dec.  12,  1789;  married  Dec.  27,  1817,  Sarah  Abbott  of 
Chelmsford,  Mass.  She  was  born  March  19,  1792;  died,  May  31,  1857. 
He  died  Aug.  30,  1862.  After  serving  in  the  War  of  1812  (See  Chapter 
IX),  he  went  to  Milford.  He  was  a  brick  maker  by  trade,  and  came 
back  to  his  native  town  about  1825.  Children :  — 

1.  RUFUS,    + 

2.  JOSEPH,  b.  at  Milford,  Feb.  22,  1821,  m.  Oct.  31,  1844,  Mary 

A.  Drew  of  Somersworth,  b.  April  3,  1824.  After  many 
removals  he  settled  in  Paxton,  Mass.,  where  he  died  Sept. 
18,  1886.  His  wife  d.  at  Cambridgeport,  Mass.,  Dec.  6, 
1886.  Children:  Horace  E.,  Ella  E.,  George  A.,  Fred 
W. 

3.  SALLY,  b.   at  Milford,  March  n,    1823,  m.  July  15,   1847, 

Charles  Blanchard  of  Milford. 

4.  OTIS,  b.  at  I/yndeborough,  Jan.  8,  1826,  m.  first,  May,  1849, 

Clara  S.  Holt.  She  d.  June  10,  1852 ;  second,  Nov.  24, 
1852,  Martha  K.,  dau.  of  Jonas  and  Mary  (Hall)  Wheeler. 
She  was  b.  Nov.  23,  1834.  He  rem.  from  I^yndeborough 
and  for  a  number  of  years  was  engaged  in  lumbering  in 
Canada.  He  subsequently  settled  in  Grafton,  N.  H. 
Children  :  Emery  O.,  Woodbury  O.,  Fred  W. 

5.  OLIVE,  born  at  I,yndeborough,  Jan.  20,  1828,  m.  Edwin  N. 

Patch.     (See  Patch  gen.) 

6.  SUSAN,  b.  at  Wilton,  Oct.  29,  1830,  d.  Aug.  17,  1832. 

7.  HARVEY,  b.  at  L/yndeborough,  March  2,  1833,  m.  Sept.  21, 

1862,  Sarah  J.  L,ibbey  of  Warren.  Rem.  to  Rivere  de 
L,oupe,  Canada,  where  he  d.  Sept.  o,  1867.  Child  :  Harry 
I,. 

RUFUS  CHAMBERLAIN,  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Abbott  Chamber- 
lain, born  at  Milford,  June  5,  1819 ;  married  May  20,  1843,  Martha  Jane 
Upton.  She  was  born  at  Lyndeborough,  Jan.  21,  1821  ;  died  May  24, 
1892.  He  is  of  the  seventh  generation  from  Thomas  Chamberlain  of 
Woburn,  Mass.,  who  is  presumed  to  be  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the 
Chamberlains  of  Lyndeborough.  He  is  the  only  descendant  in  the  male 
line  now  living  in  Lyndeborough  of  the  many  Chamberlains  born  here. 
The  rest  have  emigrated  to  many  parts  of  the  country.  In  early  life  he 
worked  in  the  cotton  mills  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  but  returned  to  Lyndebor- 
ough and  settled  on  the  homestead  farm  which  has  been  in  the  family 


694  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

since  1768.  He  has  always  taken  a  lively  interest  in  the  business  affairs 
of  the  town,  and  has  filled  many  offices  of  trust.  For  nine  years  he 
was  selectman  and  helped  guide  the  financial  matters  of  the  town  during 
the  closing  years  of  the  Civil  War,  when  Lyndeborough,  in  common 
with  most  of  the  towns  of  New  Hampshire,  was  burdened  with  a  heavy 
debt.  He  has  been  a  trusted  counsellor  of  the  political  party  to  which 
he  belonged,  and  whose  principles  he  was  ever  ready  to  defend.  He  was 
the  parish  sexton  for  more  than  forty  years.  Children  :  — 

1.  EMILY,  b.  March  3,  1844,  m.  May  18,  1865,  Charles  F.  Tar- 

bell.     (See  Tarbell  gen.) 

2.  WALTER,  b.  Oct.  2,  1846.     Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War, 

and  d.  at  New  Orleans,  L,a.,  May  7,  1863.     (See  Chapter 
X.) 

3.  ELIZA  ANN,  b.  Oct.  16,  1848,  m.  Dec.  4,  1867,  Charles  H. 

Wilson  of  Deering.     He  was  b.  June  20,  1838.     Children  : 
Willis  H.,  Eugene  R.,  Alice  M.,  Walter  C. 

4.  SARAH  FLORENCE,  b.  Sept.  23,  1850,  d.  Feb.  26,  1853. 

5.  FRANK,  b.  Oct.  9,  1852,  m.  Oct.  23,  1873,  Sarah  M.  Barrett. 

Res.  in  Worcester.     Children  :  Mabel  Otis,  Alton  I,. 

6.  WILLIS  BROOKS,  b.  June  25,   1854,   m.  April  30,  1879,  S. 

Cornelia  Maynard  of  South  Lancaster,   Mass.     Children  : 
Emma  C.,  Marion  It. 

7.  RUFUS  WARREN,  b.  May  u,  1856,  m.  Dec.  25,  1876,  Carrie 

J.Wallace.     Res.  at  Omaha,   Neb.     Children:  Fred  W., 
Walter,  Fannie  M.,  Martha  F. 

JOHN  CHAMBERLAIN,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Cram) 
Chamberlain,  born  Sept.  16,  1759;  married  Molly .  Children  re- 
corded as  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  MOLLY,  b.  March  27,  1783. 

2.  JOHN,  -{- 

3.  SARAH,  b.  May  30,  1787. 

4.  MARTHA,  b.  March  28,  1789. 

5.  ABIGAIL,  b.  June  25,  1791. 

6.  ELIOT,  b.  Feb.  i,  1793,  d.  Jan.  12,  1796. 

7.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Feb.  21,  1795. 

8.  JONATHAN,  b.  Feb.  8,  1797,  d.  Feb.  5,  1797. 

9.  L/YDIA,  b.  April  10,  1798. 

10.  CHLOE,  b.  Aug.  5,  1800. 

u.  ELIOT,  b.  May  12,  1802,  d.  Oct.  10,  1802. 

JOHN  CHAMBERLAIN,  son  of   John  and  Molly Chamberlain, 

born  April  18,  1785  ;  married  Lucy .     Children  recorded  as  born  in 

Lyndeborough  :  — 


GENEALOGIES  695 

1.  CATHARINE  M.,  b.  Dec.  10,  1812. 

2.  WILLIAM  B.,  b.  July  18,  1814. 

3.  JOHN  R.,  b.  Oct.  i,  1816. 

4.  JOSEPH  M.,  b.  Aug.  5,  1818. 

CHASE. 

HARRY  R.  CHASE,  son  of  Rufus  and  Mary  A.  (Blanchard)  Chase, 
b.  Nov.  3,  1865;  married  Dec.  21,  1897,  Alice  J.,  daughter  of  Henry  F. 
and  Mary  J.  (Simonds)  Matthews  of  Wilton.  She  was  born  April  9, 
1865.  He  has  been  selectman  and  represented  the  town  in  the  Legisla- 
ture, is  a  prosperous  farmer  and  resides  in  Perham  Corner.  Children  :  — 

1.  HAZEL  J.,  b.  Nov.  17,  1898. 

2.  L,ILLA  B.,  b.  March  8,  1902. 

CHEEVER. 

WARD  N.  CHEEVER  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Lunenburg,  Mass., 
in  1861,  and  settled  in  South  Lyndeborough.  He  has  been  the  "Village 
Blacksmith  "  until  the  present  writing.  He  united  the  tilling  of  the 
soil  with  the  blacksmith's  trade  and  by  industry  and  perseverance  turned 
some  of  the  roughest  land  into  smiling  fields  and  orchards.  He  was 
born  July  21,  1831 ;  married  Amanda  E.  Chandler  of  Fairfield,  Vt.,  Nov. 
9,  1855.  She  was  born  Julys,  1833;  died  June  u,  1902.  Children,  all 
but  one  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  L,IZZIE  J.,  b.  in  lyunenburg,  Mass.,  June  23,  1860,  m.  L/ucas 

Young  of  Manchester. 

2.  WARD  E.,  b.  Sept,  13,  1862. 

3.  WILLIAM  H.,  -|- 

4.  HATTIE  A.,  b.  Oct.  20,  1871,  d.  March  27,  1874. 

5.  HERBERT  A.,  + 

WILLIAM  H.  CHEEVER,  son  of  Ward  N.  and  Amanda  (Chandler) 
Cheever,  born  June  15,  1864 ;  married  first,  May  Clark ;  second,  Carrie 
E.,  daughter  of  William  and  Ellen  (Karr)  Duncklee  of  Greenfield, 
March  10,  1887.  She  was  born  March  9,  1869.  Children  born  in  Lynde- 
borough :  — 

1.  HARRY  W.,  b.  July  5,  1888. 

2.  ALICE  M.,  b.  Feb.  4,  1891. 

3.  CHARLES  E.,  b.  Nov.  14,  1893. 

4.  PERLEY  W.,  b.  Sept.  26,  1897. 

5.  HOWARD  I,.,  b.  June  4,  1903. 

HERBERT  A.  CHEEVER,  son  of  Ward  N.  and  Amanda  (Chandler) 
Cheever,  born  Oct.  10,  1873 ;  married  S.  May,  daughter  of  John  C.  and 
Mercy  M.  (Wood)  Miller  of  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  20,  1894.  She  was  born 
Nov.  19  1863,  and  died  March  7, 1901  ;  married  second,  Jan.  i,  1903,  Carrie 
L.,  daughter  of  George  L.  and  Hannah  (Gibson)  Marsh,  born  Jan.  i,  1877. 
Children  by  first  wife  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 


696  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

i.  RALPH  J.,  b.  July  4,  1895. 
5.  SILAS  W.,  b.  Feb.  14,  1897. 
3.  MARY  N.,  b.  Aug.  18,  1898.     . 

CHENERY. 

MOSES  CHENERY  was  born  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  Oct.  9,  1796; 
married  Nancy  A.  Haley  of  Jamaica  Plain,  Mass.  She  was  born  May, 
1796 ;  died  April  8,  1869.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  and  bought  the 
farm  owned  and  occupied  by  a  Mr.  Webber.  The  house  was  built  by 
Timothy  Ordway,  Sr.,  where  Chas.  J.  Cummings  now  lives.  Mr.  Chenery 
lived  there  until  his  death,  June  17,  1861.  Children  :  — 

1.  HARRIET  J.,  m.  Dr.  William  A.  Jones.     (See  Jones  gen.) 

2.  ALMIRA  D.,  b.  Oct.  13,  1838,  d.  in  1849. 

CHENERY. 

JOHN  CHENERY,  born  July  7,  1826;  married  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Well- 
man  of  Temple,  Aug.  13,  1862.  She  was  born  Dec.  8,  1833.  He  died 
Nov.  22,  1904.  Children  :  — 

1.  ELSIE  JANE,  b.  Oct.  6,  1863,  d.  Aug.  17,  1864. 

2.  ANGIE  F.,  b.  Jan.  8,  1869,  m.  John  W.  Follansbee  of  Mont 

Vernon,  Sept.  6,  1887. 

CLAGGETT. 

REV.  ERASTUS  BALDWIN  CLAGGETT,  (See  Church  History) 
born  in  Newport,  May  9,  1815;  died  at  New  Fairfield,  Conn.,  May  16, 
1877 ;  married  Mary  A.  Paine.  We  can  get  no  record  of  the  dates  of  the 
birth  of  their  children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough.  But  they  were  bap- 
tized as  follows  :  — 

1.  ERASTUS  PRENTICE,  b.  Sept.,  1845,  bap.  Jan.  i,  1847. 

2.  SUMNER  EVERETT,  bap.  June  29,  1848. 

3.  ELIZABETH  PAINE,  bap.  July  i,  1852. 

4.  CHARLES  WENTWORTH,  bap.  Nov.  7,  1858. 

5.  HENRY  MORRIS,  bap.  Sept.  4,  1862. 

CLARK. 

MAJ.  PETER  CLARK  came  to  Lyndeborough  Jan.  23,  1775,  from 
Braintree,  Mass.  His  brother  John  came  the  same  year  from  the  same 
place.  They  were  descendants  of  Hugh  Clark,  who  came  to  this  country 
from  England  and  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass. 

Peter  and  John  were  of  the  fifth  generation  from  Hugh  Clark. 

Peter  was  born  Feb.  4,  1743;  married  Hannah  Eppes  of  Braintree, 
Mass.,  Oct.  20,  1763.  She  died  Dec.  21,  1814.  He  died  Oct.  14,  1826.  He 
settled  on  lot  no,  second  division,  where  Henry  E.  Holden  now  lives. 
Soon  after  coming  to  Lyndeborough  he  joined  the  Continental  Army,  and 
in  1775  was  commissioned  a  captain  in  the  gth  regiment,  N.  H.  Militia. 


GENEALOGIES  697 

(See  p.  592).  After  the  war  he  returned  home,  and  was  evidently  a 
very  useful  citizen.  He  was  moderator,  town  clerk  and  selectman  in 
1777,  and  it  would  be  interesting  to  know  just  how  he  performed  the 
duties  of  those  offices  on  town  meeting  day.  He  was  moderator  in  1777, 
1783,  1788,  1792,  1793,  1796,  1798  and  1800 ;  town  clerk,  1777,  1778,  1788, 
1789,  1793  ;  selectman,  1777,  1778,  1788,  1789,  1793,  1800,  and  1801 ;  repre- 
sentative to  the  General  Court  in  1790,  1791,  1792,  1794.  In  politics  he 
was  a  "  federalist,"  in  religion  a  "  puritan."  He  had  a  profound  regard 
for  the  Scriptures,  and  was  very  regular  in  his  devotions.  He  was  a 
strict  observer  of  the  Sabbath  and  regular  in  his  attendance  at  church. 
He  was  chosen  "deacon  "  of  the  Congregational  church  in  1783  and  re- 
tained the  office  until  his  death,  although  he  voluntarily  ceased  to 
officiate  some  years  before.  He  was  a  man  of  much  influence  in  civil  and 
religious  life,  and  during  the  early  years  of  his  official  duties,  was  one  of 
the  very  few  men  in  the  town  of  his  adoption  who  were  regarded  quali- 
fied to  transact  the  business  of  the  town.  He  was  very  systematic  in  his 
habits.  He  wore  the  long  stockings,  knee  and  shoe  buckles  and  the  old 
fashioned  cue  as  long  as  he  lived. 

He  built  a  "pottery"  and  manufactured  the  brown  earthenware  that 
was  in  such  common  use  in  those  days.  His  son  Peter  also  built  a  "pot- 
tery "  near  where  John  H.  Goodrich  lives,  and  the  two  did  an  extensive 
business.  The  clay  was  brought  from  Amherst,  N.  H.,  and  the  products 
of  the  potteries,  crocks,  jugs,  bean  pots,  etc.,  were  peddled  out  in  the 
neighboring  towns.  It  is  said  that  more  business  was  done  around  these 
"plants"  in  those  days  than  anywhere  else  in  town.  The  old  pottery 
was  destroyed  about  fifty  years  ago.  He  was  one  of  the  few  who  kept  a 
diary  of  events  in  those  days,  and  we  here  insert  extracts  from  it  of  the 
stirring  times  of  the  Revolutionary  War;  also  a  letter  written  to  his 
family  from  the  battlefield  of  Bennington  :  — 

Jan.  23,  1775  Set  out  for  L,yndeborough  with  my  family 

"  25,     "  Arrived  at  Lyndeborough 

Feb.  20,    "  ,1/ayed  out  the  Highway  through  my  field  from  the  mill  to 

Woodbury's 

Mar.  15,    "  Began  to  saw  at  my  mill 

Apr.  6,      "  Hauled  timber  for  my  house 

"     19,    "  The  fight  began  at  Concord 

Oct.   25,    "  Hauled  timber  for  barn  and  shop 

Nov.  2,     "  Raised  my  house.     Killed  my  ox 

Dec.  29,    "  Finished  boarding  my  house 

Feb.   i,  1776  Began  to  build  my  chimney 

"  26,      "  MOVED  in  to  my  HOUSE 

July  9,       "  Raised  my  barn 

"     12,    "  Raised  17  men  for  Concord 

Aug.  10,    "  Set  out  for  Bennington 

"     n,    "  Arrived  at  do. 

"     14,    "  Marched  out  of  Bennington 

"     1 6,    "  Battle  fought  at  St.  Croix 

"    25,    "  Hooper  of  New  Boston  died  with  his  wound 

Sept.  6,    "  Marched  to  St.  Croix 

"     10,    "  Marched  for  Stillwater 


698  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Sept.  18,  1776  Set  out  from  Stillwater  for  home 

"     20,    "  Set  out  from  Bennington 

"    24,   "  Arrived  at  Lyndeborough 

"     29,    "  Orders  came  to  raise  men 

Oct.  4,   1777  Set  out  to  go  to  the  army 

"      7,    "  Arrived  at  Bennington 

"      9,    "  Marched  from  Benniugton  as  far  as  St.  Croir 

"     10,    "  Arrived  at  Batten  Hill 

"     u,    "  Marched  for  Fort  Edward 

"     12,    "  Arrived  at  Fort  Edward 

"     14,    "  Marched  at  night  to  Fort  George 

"     15,    "  Returned  to  Fort  Edward 

"     16,    "  Marched  to  Saratoga 

"     17,    "  Burgoin  and  his  army  gave  up  and  marched  off 

"     18,    "  We  set  out  from  Saratoga 

"     19,   "  Lodged  at  Mrs.  Rown 

"     21,    "  Lodged  in  Northfield 

"     22,    "  Lodged  in  Dublin 

"     23,    "  Arrived  at  Lyndeborough 

Apr.  3,  1779  Fell  wood  by  Richardson's 

June  15,    "  Ruben  Bachelder  raised  his  house 

July  20,     "  Went  to  Goffstown  to  muster  men 

Sept.  6,     "  Raysed  men  for  Portsmouth 

Oct.  20,     "  Esq.  Fuller  run  the  line  between  Mr.  Bullock  and  I 

Jan.  24,  1780  School  began  at  Capt.  Barren's 

May  19,    "  dark  day  at  n  o'clock  as  Dark  as  night 

Nov.  25,   "  School-house  burnt 

Dec.  4,      "  Worked  on  School  house 

Ang.  14,  1793  Raised  school  house 

Nov.  21,    "  Jonathan  Barren  drowned 

May  20,  1797  Had  the  last  newspaper 

July  22,    "  Began  to  take  the  paper 

Jan.'4i2,  1800  Meeting-house  dressed  in  mourning  for  Gen1  Washington 

Nov.  4,     "  Polly  Lewis  ran  away  with  Dickerman 

Dec.  24,    "  Town  singing  school  began  here 

Dec.  2,  1801  Raised  horse  shed  at  meeting-house. 

The  following  is  a  letter  written  by  Capt.  Peter  Clark  to  his 
wife  from  Bennington,  Vt. 

Bennington  (VT)  Aug  18,  1777 

These  with  my  love  to  you  and  my  dear  children  and  Brothers  and 
Sisters.  Hoping  you  are  well  as  I  am  at  present  Except  something  of  a 
cold  and  much  Fatagued  with  marching  and  last  Saturday's  action.  We 
are  now  about  twenty  miles  east  of  Stillwater.  We  came  to  this  Town 
last  Monday  from  Manchester,  last  Wednesday  the  whole  Brigade  was 
paraded  to  march  to  Stillwater  and  while  under  arms  the  General  Received 
intelligence  that  there  was  a  Large  Body  of  the  enemy  coming  to  Destroy 
the  Stores  at  Bennington.  Where  upon  the  Brigade  was  Dismissed  until 
towards  night,  and  then  sent  off  Lt.  Coll  Gray  of  Londonderry  with 
about  two  Hundred  men  who  early  the  next  morning  Discovered  the 
enemy  at  a  mill  about  7  miles  from  this  place,  and  finding  them  a  Large 


ff 


GENEALOGIES  699 

body  after  firing  at  each  other  a  few  times  Retreated  and  met  the  Brigade 
about  halfway  between  this  mill  and  Bennington  where  the  Brigade 
made  a  stand  and  threw  up  a  "  Slity  "  brest  work,  the  enemy  came  down 
within  about  a  mile  &  ^  of  us  and  made  a  stand.  Their  number  we 
could  not  find  out,  but  it  appears  by  prisoners  taken  there  was  about  15 
hundred.  The  next  day  was  Friday  and  by  Reason  of  Rainy  wether  noth- 
ing of  any  Consequence  was  done.  The  next  day  Saturday  Aug.  16  at  20 
minutes  past  three  in  the  afternoon  the  Battle  began  in  earnest  we  Being 
at  this  time  on  Every  part  of  them  and  as  near  as  I  can  tell  I  think  the 
battle  held  about  >£  an  hour  and  was  Equal  to  Bunker  Hill  Excepting 
there  was  not  as  many  cannon,  the  Enemy  had  two  Brass  Field  pieces, 
we  had  none,  the  I/ord  of  Hosts  sent  them  off  in  such  hast  they  Left  their 
all  and  run.  However  we  took  many  of  them  but  here  i  must  not  End 
for  we  had  another  battle  much  harder  than  the  first  for  we  were  all  most 
tired  out,  and  many  of  our  people  gone  with  the  Prisoners,  and  those  that 
pursued  those  that  fled  were  tnett  by  two  Regements  of  Hessia  Regulars 
about  Eight  Hundred  besides  Torys  who  were  all  fresh  hands  who  had 
not  been  in  the  first  Battle  which  brought  on  another  Battle,  which  con. 
tinued  untill  dark,  but  finally  they  were  obliged  to  flee  before  us  and 
leave  behind  them  two  more  Brass  field  pieces,  small  arms,  and  other 
things.  So  God  gave  us  a  Compleat  Victory  over  them.  Many  think  it 
to  be  all  things  considered  the  greatest  Victory  won  since  the  war  by  the 
Americans.  Peter  Clark. 

Children  of  Maj.  Peter  Clark  and  Hannah  (Eppes)  Clark,  five 
younger  born  in  L/yndeborough  :  — 

i.  PETER,  + 

2.  W ItU AM,  -f- 

3.  DANIEL,  + 

4.  BENJAMIN,  -}- 

5.  FRANCIS,  b.  Feb.  25,  1772,  d.  July  14,  1773. 

6.  FRANCIS,  + 

7.  HANNAH,  b.  March  14,  1776,  d.  April  3,  1776. 

8.  SAMUEL,  + 

9.  HANNAH,  b.  May  8,  1780,  m.  Jonathan  Parker  of  Chelms- 

ford,  Mass. 

10.  DEBORAH,  m.  Isaiah  Parker  of   Chelmsford,  Mass.     (See 
Parker  gen.) 

11.  JOHN,  + 

PETER  CLARK,  son  of  Peter  and  Hannah  (Epps)  Clark,  was  born 
Sept.  27,  1764;  married  Elizabeth  Punchard  of  Salem,  Mass.,  July,  1783. 
He  removed  to  Brownington,  Vt.,  but  returned  to  I/yndeborough,  where 
he  died  Feb.  3,  1851.  Children,  born  in  I/yndeborough  :  — 

i.  PETER,  b.  Aug.  13,  1784,  m.  Jane  Aiken,  who  was  b. 
March  10,  1785.  He  d.  Dec.  25,  1853.  He  lived  in  Fran- 
cestown  and  Nashua,  ultimately  removing  to  Boston.  He 


700  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

was  a  man  of  much  enterprise,  had  large  business  inter- 
ests and  was  closely  connected  with  the  railroad  interests 
of  New  England.     Children  :    Peter,  John   L,.,  Benjamin, 
Jane  M.,  James  G. 
2.  BENJAMIN,  b.  July  i,  1787,  d.  Jan.  5,  1806. 

WILLIAM  CLARK,  son  of  Peter  and  Hannah  (Epps)  Clark,  was  born 
May  18,  1766;  married  Dec.  20,  1787,  Sarah  Barren  of  Lyndeborough. 
She  was  born  1771 ;  died  March  14,  1855.  He  died  Nov.  n,  1855.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  drover,  and  was  selectman  in  1798,  1799,  1800,  1801, 
and  1802.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  Sept.  8,  1788,  m.  Daniel  Gould  of  L/yndeborough, 

and  rem.  to  Illinois. 

2.  WILLIAM,  -(- 

3.  HANNAH,  b.  Feb.  13,  1793,  m.  Alfred  Killam  of  L/yndebor- 

ough,  d.  Feb.  19,  1812,  of  spotted  fever. 

4.  JONATHAN,  -|- 

5.  PETER,  + 

6.  L,UCY,  b.  Aug.  3,   1800,  m.  John  Caryl  of   L/yndeborough. 

(See  Caryl  gen.) 

7.  DEBORAH,  b.  May  3,  1803,  d.  Feb.  19,  1812,  of  spotted  fever. 

8.  OLIVE,  b.  Aug.  5,  1805,  m.  Samuel  Jones  of  L/yndeborough. 

(See  Jones  gen.) 

9.  BENJAMIN  F.,  -}- 

10.  MICAH,  B.,  b.  Dec.  19,  1810,  d.  July  30,  1811. 

11.  HANNAH  D.,  b.  Oct.  12,  1812,  d.  Feb.  13,  1865,  m.  George 
F.  Gilmore  of  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

12.  BARRON,  b.  Sept.  8,  1815,  d.  April  18,  1826. 

REV.  WILLIAM  CLARK,  son  of  Wm.  and  Sarah  (Barren)  Clark; 
born  Jan.  31,  1791  ;  died  June  25,  1853  ;  married  Nancy  Herrick  of  Green- 
field, N.  H.,  May,  1814.  She  was  born  March  i,  1788;  died  July  4,  1850. 
He  was  licensed  to  preach  Sept.,  1832 ;  removed  to  Carlyle,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  was  for  many  years  pastor  of  a  Presbyterian  church.  Children,  born 
in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  HANNAH  E.,  b.  Feb.  16,  1815;  m.  Dr.  J.  H.  Ells,  Nov.  27, 

1839- 

2.  MARY  H.,  b.  Dec.  n,  1816,  d.  April,  1855. 

3.  NANCY  D.,  b.  Aug.  13,  1818,  d.  Dec.,  1884. 
JONATHAN  CLARK,  born  July  4,  1795  ;    married   Sarah    Putnam  of 

Lyudeborough,  Dec.  16,  1817.     She  was  born  Aug.  19,  1793  ;  died  May  30, 
1890.     He  died  Oct.  23,  1879.     Children,  all  born  in  Lyudeborough  :  — 

1.  JONATHAN,  b.  March  8,  1819,  d.  Aug.  8,  1822. 

2.  JONATHAN  B.,  b.  June  7,  1822,  rem.  to  California,  d.  Dec. 

24,  1876. 


GENEALOGIES  701 

3.  DAVID  P.,  -f 

4.  SARAH  M.,   b.  June  26,    1825,   m.   C.  A.   Blood  of   North 

Chelmsford,  Mass.,  d.  Dec.  24,  1894. 

5.  BENJAMIN,  b.  Nov.  3,  1827,  d.  Feb.  6,  1831. 

6.  ABBY  A.,  b.  Oct.  3,  1830,  m.  Hiram  Cummings  of  L/owell, 

Mass.,  Feb.  n,  1849,  d.  Nov.  16,  1889. 

7.  HANNAH  D.,  b.  April  3,  1834,  res.  in  Methuen,  Mass. 

DAVID  P.  CLARK,  born  Nov.  14,  1823;  removed  to  North  Chelms- 
ford, Mass.;  married  Jan.  31,  1848,  Eliza  J.  Blood  of  North  Chelmsford, 
Mass.  She  was  born  Oct.  26,  1825.  Children:  — 

1.  ABBY  F. 

2.  FRANK  H. 

3.  I, AURA  E. 

4.  EMMA  A. 

5.  MARY  G. 

CAPT.  PETER  CLARK,  son  of  William  and  Sarah  (Barren)  Clark; 
born  Oct.  12,  1797  ;  married  first,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Chloe 
(Farrington)  Jones  of  Lyndeborough,  Nov.  20,  1823.  She  was  born  Dec. 
21,  1798;  died  Feb.  16,  1839;  married  second,  Lucy,  daughter  of  Benja- 
min and  Sarah  (Clark)  Goodrich  of  Lyndeborough,  Feb.  19,  1840.  She 
was  born  Jan.  13,  1808  ;  died  July  6,  1878.  He  died  Sept.  25,  1879. 

He  received  his  education  in  the  common  schools  of  the  town,  and 
when  a  young  man  learned  the  potter's  trade,  at  which  he  worked  for 
several  years.  He  took  great  interest  in  military  affairs,  and  joined  a 
cavalry  company  attached  to  the  22nd  Regiment,  N.  H.  Militia,  which 
was  composed  of  men  from  Lyndeborough  and  adjoining  towns,  and  rose 
to  the  rank  of  captain,  and  by  this  title  he  was  ever  afterward  known. 
He  united  with  the  Congregational  church  in  early  life,  and  was  a  con- 
stant attendant  at  church  and  served  as  warden  many  years.  In  1842  he 
removed  to  North  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  where  he  lived  five  years,  return- 
ing to  North  Lyndeborough  in  1847.  In  1854  he  purchased  the  farm  at 
the  "Centre"  known  as  the  "Squire"  Stiles  place,  where  the  remainder 
of  his  life  was  passed.  He  was  a  genial  man,  fond  of  a  song  or  story,  a 
kind,  helpful  neighbor  and  hospitable  to  all. 

He  was  the  hero  of  an  incident  that  was  much  talked  of  at  the  time  : 
While  travelling  alone  about  two  miles  south  of  Amherst  village  on  the 
afternoon  of  July  18,  1850,  he  was  attacked  by  two  highwaymen,  who 
sprang  from  the  woods  a  little  in  advance  of  his  team.  One  seized  his 
horse  by  the  bit,  while  the  other  presented  a  pistol  at  his  head  and  de- 
manded "  his  money  or  his  life."  But  they  were  mistaken  in  their  man. 
Capt.  Clark  had  the  courage  and  grit  of  his  Revolutionary  ancestors,  and 
did  not  propose  to  surrender  valuables  without  a  struggle.  His  only 
weapon  was  a  heavily  loaded  whip  in  the  wagon.  Seizing  this  he  sprang 
upon  his  assailant,  dealing  him  a  blow  that  felled  him  to  the  ground.  At 
the  same  instant  the  other  man  fired  point  blank  at  Mr.  Clark's  head, 
the  pistol  being  held  so  close  that  his  face  was  filled  with  powder  ;  then 
ensued  a  hand  to  hand  struggle,  the  frightened  horse  meanwhile  turning 


702  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

around  in  the  road.  His  assailants  getting  the  worst  of  the  encounter, 
jumped  into  the  wagon  and  drove  rapidly  away,  leaving  Mr.  Clark  master 
of  the  situation,  but  minus  his  team.  He  walked  to  Amherst  village, 
where  his  burned  and  blood-stained  face  created  much  excitement.  His 
horse  was  driven  to  Boston  that  night.  It  was  subsequently  recovered, 
but  that  ninety-mile  drive  practically  ruined  it.  The  town  of  Amherst 
offered  a  reward  of  two  hundred  dollars  for  the  capture  of  the  footpads, 
but  they  were  never  found.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough.  but 
William  H.:  — 
By  first  wife  :  — 

1.  BENJAMIN  JONES,  b.  Dec.  26,  1824,  d.  Jan.  23,  1899.     Was 

a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.     (See  Chap.  X.) 

2.  SARAH  DEBORAH,  b.  Dec.  27,  1827,  m.  Thomas  P.  Rand  of 

Francestown,  d.  Nov.  14,  1904.     (See  Rand  gen.) 
By  second  wife  :  — 

3.  WILLIAM  H.,  b.  Nov.  1 6,  1844,  in  North  Chelmsford,  Mass., 

m.  Abby  K.,  dau.  of  Thomas  P.  and  L/ydia  (Wheeler)  Rand 
of  Francestown,  Dec.  15,  1875.  She  was  born  July  31, 
1855.  Res.  on  Clark  homestead,  and  is  an  enterprising  and 
prosperous  farmer. 

4.  LUCY  ARABELLA,  b.  March  10,   1848,  m.  Ramsey  C.  Bout- 

well,  Nov.  20,  1872.  He  was  a  son  of  the  Rev.  Thurston 
Boutwell,  b.  in  Minnesota,  May  16,  1837,  d.  April  24,  1898. 

REV.  BENJAMIN  F.  CLARK,  born  Feb.  23,  1808 ;  married  Mehitable 
Atwood  of  Lyndeborough,  Nov.  23,  1837.  She  was  born  Nov.  29,  1806 ; 
died  June  6,  1853.  He  died  May  28,  1879,  at  North  Chelmsford,  Mass. 
In  his  youth  he  learned  the  potter's  trade.  In  1826  he  united  with  the 
Congregational  Church  at  Lyndeborough,  He  soon  felt  himself  called 
to  preach  the  gospel,  but  pecuniary  disaster  rendered  his  father  unable 
to  help  him  to  an  education.  Hearing  of  special  facilities  in  Tennessee 
for  those  who  were  willing  to  carve  out  their  own  fortunes,  in  April,  1827, 
he  set  out  for  that  distant  region  and  found  his  way  to  Boston  with  a 
bundle  of  clothing  and  twenty-five  dollars  in  his  pocket.  Thence  with 
two  companions  he  took  a  packet  to  Baltimore.  Resting  here  a  short 
time,  he  set  out  on  foot  with  one  of  his  companions  for  Marysville,  East 
Tennessee,  500  miles.  Reaching  his  destination  in  June  he  connected 
himself  with  the  literary  department  of  the  Southwestern  Theological 
Seminary.  He  was  not  long  satisfied  with  the  instruction  here,  and  in 
March,  1829,  he  found  his  way  350  miles,  again  on  foot,  to  Oxford,  Ohio. 
To  defray  the  expense  of  this  journey,  he  sold  his  watch  and  overcoat. 
At  Oxford  he  completed  his  preparatory  studies  and  entered  Miami 
University,  graduating  with  high  honor  in  1833.  By  acting  as  private 
tutor  in  mathematics  and  teaching  singing,  with  the  economy  taught  by 
necessity,  he  was  able  to  support  and  educate  himself. 

He  was  principal  of  Rising  Sun  Seminary,  in  Rising  Sun,  Indiana, 
from  October,  1833,  to  October,  1834  ;  studied  theology  at  Lane  Semi- 
nary two  years  and  a  half,  commencing  in  the  autumn  of  1834.  Here, 


GENEALOGIES  703 

among  other  eminent  teachers  he  enjoyed  the  instruction  of  Lyman 
Beecher.  Licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Oxford,  Ohio,  in 
October,  1837,  he  returned  to  his  home  in  Lyndeborough.  He  married 
first,  Mehitable,  daughter  of  Paul  and  Judith  Atwood  of  Lyndeborough. 
Three  children  were  the  result  of  this  union.  She  died  June  16,  1853, 
and  he  married  second,  Mrs.  Julia  Ann  Atwood  of  Amherst,  N.  H., 
widow  of  the  late  Dr.  Moses  Atwood  of  New  Boston,  N.  H.  She  died 
at  North  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  Feb.  4,  1889. 

The  pastor  of  the  church  in  Lyndeborough  being  ill,  Mr.  Clark  sup- 
plied his  pulpit  the  first  seven  months  in  1838,  also  Mt.  Vernon  and 
Francestown  pulpits  three  months  of  the  same  year. 

From  January,  1839,  until  August,  1839,  he  was  at  Andover  Theologi- 
cal Seminary.  In  August,  1839,  he  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  Congregat- 
ional Church  at  North  Chelmsford,  Mass.  At  this  time  this  church  had 
been  without  a  pastor  seven  years  and  was  greatly  reduced,  but  with  his 
accustomed  heartiness  and  energy,  he  entered  into  the  work  of  building 
up  the  village,  schools  and  church,  and  was  eminently  successful,  retain- 
ing his  interest  in  them  all  through  life. 

During  his  ministry  there  were  received  by  profession,  105  ;  by  letter, 
77  ;  total,  182.  His  salary  all  through  his  pastorate  was  $600.  He  never 
had  a  vacation.  He  preached  three  times  each  Sabbath.  A  good  singer, 
he  was  instrumental  in  improving  the  singing  of  the  Sabbath  School 
and  choir. 

He  was  genial  and  companionable,  of  a  very  social  disposition,  fond  of 
a  story,  apt  at  a  joke  and  as  ready  to  take  as  to  give  a  pleasantry.  He 
was  quite  popular  in  his  vicinity  as  a  lyceum  lecturer.  One  of  his  best 
lectures  was  entitled  "  Changes  in  New  England  manners  and  customs 
during  the  last  70  years,"  illustrated  by  old  folks  in  costume  singing 
songs"  of  Ye  olden  time  "  carding  and  spinning  on  the  large  and  small 
wheels  etc.  This  led  the  way  for  the  old  folks'  concerts  so  popular  for  a 
time. 

Mr.  Clark  was  on  the  school  committee  of  Chelmsford  for  20  years  and 
for  many  years  and  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  a  director  in  the  Stony 
Brook  Railroad  Corporation.  He  died  at  North  Chelmsford,  Mass., 
May  28,  1879.*  Children,  all  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  JOHN  H.,  b.   Dec.   25,  1838,  m.   Marion,  dau.   of  Neil  Mc- 

Lane  of  New  Boston. 

2.  FRANCELIA,  Feb.  i,  1844,  d.  April  15,  1858. 

3.  MARY  E.,  b.  Nov.  n,  1847,  d.  July  17,  1849. 

DANIEL  CLARK,  son  of  Maj.  Peter  and  Hannah  (Epps)  Clark,  born 
March  14,  1768 ;  married  Mary  Whitmarsh  of  Lyndeborough,  Nov.  25, 
1790.  She  was  born  Sept.  20,  1768;  died  April  3,  1852.  He  died  Aug.  n, 
1828.  Children :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  Sept.  27,  1791,  d.  May  9,  1841. 

2.  DANIEL,  b.  March  26,  1793,  m.  Sally  Hall.     He  d.  1863. 

*  The  facts,  and  often  the  exact  language  of  this  sketch  are  taken  from  the  Memorial 
Address  at  the  funeral  of  Rev.  Benj.  F.  Clark,  May  31,  1879,  by  Wni.  P.  Alcott,  acting 
pastor. 


704  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

3.  PETER,  b.  Aug.  n,  1794,  m.  Betsey  Whitmarsh,  Dec.  2?, 
1817,  d.  Oct.  18,  1855.  She  was  b.  May  17,  1789,  d.  Aug. 
5,  1849. 

BENJAMIN  CLARK,  son  of  Maj.  Peter  and  Hannah  (Epps)  Clark  ; 
born  Feb.  26,  1770";  married  Susanna  Bass  of  Braintree,  Mass.,  Feb.  7, 
1793.  She  was  born  May  16,  1768;  died  Nov.  3,  1824.  He  died  Aug.  n, 
1844.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough : — 

1.  HANNAH,  b.  Dec.  3,  1793. 

2.  SUSANNA,  b.  Jan.  29,  1795,  d.  Dec.  29,  1796. 

3.  FRANCIS,  b.  May  i,  1796,  m.  Julia  L/iscomb,  June  5,  1821. 

4.  BENJAMIN,  b.  Feb.   23,   1798,  m.  Sophie  Knight,  May  21, 

1823. 

5.  JONATHAN,  b.  Jan.  25,  1800,  d.  Jan.  4,   1889,  m.  Hannah 

Cross. 

6.  PETER,  b.  Jan.  24,  1802,  m.  Philena  Mann,  Sept.  12,  1827. 

7.  DR.  HOWARD,  b.  Jan.  31,   1804,  m.  Gilty  L/etson,  July  13, 

1834. 

8.  SUSANNA,  b.  Dec.  12,  1805,  d.  Dec.  15,  1805. 

9.  DANIEL,  b.  Nov.  n,  1806,  m.  Elizabeth  Avery,  Mar.  6,  1827. 

10.  WILLIAM,  b.  Nov.  2,  1808,  d.  Nov.  19,  1808. 

11.  WILLIAM,  b.  March  19,  1811,  m.  Fanny  H.  Silver,  Oct.  4, 

1837- 

12.  HENRY,  b.  Sept.  15,   1815,  m.  Harriet  D.  Badger,  March 

22,    1838. 

FRANCIS  CLARK,  son  of  Maj.  Peter  and  Hannah  (Epps)  Clark  ;  born 
April  14,  1774 ;  married  Mehitable  Gould  of  Lyndeborough,  Dec.  24,  1795. 
He  died  Oct.  21,  1824.  Children  :  — 

1.  DORCAS,  b.  Nov.  25,  1796. 

2.  MEHITABLE,  b.  Oct.  31,  1798. 

3.  DEBORAH,  b.  May  16,  1801,  d.  Oct.  29.  1812. 

4.  POLLY,  b.  April  21,  1803,  m.  Jonathan  Dodge,  Jan.  i,  1824. 

5.  FRANCIS,  b.  June  16,  1805. 

6.  Harriet,  b.  Aug.  27,  1808. 

7.  PAULINA,  b.  Sept.  6,  1811,  d.  March  2,  1843. 

8.  DEBORAH,  b.  Sept.  21,  1813,  d.  July,  1834. 

9.  CHARLES  L,.,  b.  Dec.  2,  1816. 

10.  WILLIAM,  b.  July  6,  1819. 

SAMUEL  CLARK,  son  of  Maj.  Peter  and  Hannah  (Epps)  Clark  ;  born 
March  19,  1777;  married  first,  Betsey  Cleaves;  she  died  Oct.  i,  1825; 
married  second,  Abigail  Currier.  He  died  April  17,  1857.  Children:  — 

1.  BETSEY,  b.  1795. 

2.  HENRY,  b.  1798,  d,  1802. 


GENEALOGIES  705 

3.  MARY,  b.  1802,  m.  Trueworthy  Oilman,  d.  Nov.  15,  1843. 

4.  CLARISSA,  b.  1805,  m.  Franklin  Rand,  Oct.  16,  1839. 

5.  EMILY,  b.  1807,  m.  Capt.  Richard  Hall. 

6.  PAULINA,  b.  1809,  m.  Robert  Webb. 

DBA.  JOHN  CLARK,  son  of  Maj.  Peter  and  Hannah  (Epps)  Clark ; 
born  Jan.  4,  1785  ;  married  first,  Margaret  Rand  of  Lyndeborough,  Nov. 
18,  1806.  She  was  born  June  15,  1782  ;  died  Aug.  31,  1846.  Married  sec- 
ond, Nancy  Patterson  of  Greenfield,  N.  H.,  Dec.  9,  1847.  He  died  March 
J9>  ^55-  He  removed  to  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  and  became  a  prominent 
and  influential  citizen.  Children :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  Oct.  4,  1807,  in  Lyndeborough. 

2.  HANNAH,  b.  June  16,  1809,  in  Lyndeborough. 

3.  DEBORAH,  b.  Oct.  12,  1811,  in  Lyndeborough. 

4.  JOHN  PRESCOTT,  b.  April  n,  1814,  in  Lyndeborough. 

5.  PETER  H.,  b.  in  New  Ipswich,  Dec.  n,  1816. 

6.  JAMES  R.,  b.  in  New  Ipswich,  Nov.  27,  1822. 

JOHN  CLARK  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Braintree,  Mass.,  in  1775. 
He  settled  on  lot  126,  second  division,  near  the  North  Lyndeborough 
schoolhouse.  He  married  Margery  Hayward,  April  24,  1777.  She  died 
Nov.  26,  1808.  He  died  March  19, 1814.  Child,  born  in  Lyndeborough: — 

i.  SALLY,  b.  Nov.  19,  1778,  m.  Benjamin  Goodrich,  son  of  Rev. 
Sewell  and  Phebe  (Putnam)  Goodrich.  (See  Goodrich 
gen.) 

CLARK. 

MATTHEW  CLARK  was  descended  from  Dea.  James  Clark,  one  of  the 
sixteen  proprietors  who  settled  Londonderry  in  1719.  James  Clark  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Elizabeth  (Fulton)  Wilson,  May  22,  1722.  Her  interesting  ex- 
perience is  mentioned  in  the  history  of  Londonderry.  Their  eldest  son, 
John,  born  March  31,  1723,  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Matthew  and 
Elizabeth  (Lindsey)  Clark.  Matthew,  son  of  John  and  Margaret 
(Clark)  Clark,  born  1762,  married  Nancy,  daughter  of  John  and  Janet 
(McClintock)  Dickey  of  Derryfield,  N.  H.  in  1783.  He  removed  to  Wil- 
ton, N.  H.,  in  1798,  and  with  his  son,  James  L.,  came  to  Lyndeborough  in 
1815,  where  he  died  Oct.  23,  1827.  Children  :  — 

1.  JAMES  L.,  + 

2.  NANCY,  b.  March  30,  1795,  m.  Henry  Clark. 

JAMES  LINDSEY  CLARK,  son  of  Matthew  and  Nancy  (McClintock) 
Clark,  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Wilton,  N.  H.,  in  1815,  and  settled 
on  the  farm  where  Chas.  L.  Perham  now  lives.  (Home  lot  No.  60.)  This 
farm  was  one  of  the  first  occupied  in  the  history  of  the  town.  July  10, 
1736,  John  Hutchinson  of  Litchfield  gave  a  bond  to  Jonathan  Peal  of 
Salem,  Mass.,  one  of  the  original  proprietors,  that  he  would  have  within 
four  years  a  dwelling  house  on  home  lot  No.  60,  "  twenty  feet  by 
eighteen,"  and  twelve  acres  cleared,  broken  up  and  brought  to  and  fenced 


706  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

in.  In  the  deed  given  Sept.  27,  1760,  the  statement  is  made  that  these 
conditions  were  fulfilled.  The  farm  was  occupied  by  the  James  Hutchin- 
son  family  until  Feb.  19,  1794.  Later  owners  were  Samuel  Butterfield, 
David  Butterfield  and  Abel  Hill. 

James  Lindsey  Clark  was  born  in  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  May  15,  1790 ; 
married  June  27,  1815,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Timothy  and  Prudence 
(Chapman)  Baldwin  of  Wilton,  a  descendant  of  John  of  England,  who 
came  to  Billerica,  Mass.,  in  1655.  She  was  born  April  n,  1793  ;  died  Oct. 
18,  1820.  He  married  second,  in  1823,  Hannah  Baldwin,  sister  of  Re- 
becca, born  Feb.  23,  1795  ;  died  March  13,  1860. 

Children  of  James  I/,  and  Rebecca  (Baldwin)  Clark  :  — 

i  DAVID  DICKEY,  + 

2.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Dec.,  1819;  died  Oct.  9,  1828. 

Children  of  James  L.  and  Hannah  (Baldwin)  Clark :  — 

1.  REBECCA  B.,  married  Oliver  Perham.     (See  Perhani  gen.) 

2.  HANNAH  JANE,  b.  July  2,  1825,  m.  William  S.  Treadwell 

of  Peterborough,  N.  H.,  May  i,  1849,  res.  in  Peterbor- 
ough. 

3.  WILLIAM  HENRY,  b.  April  28,  1827,,  m.  Theresa  A.,  dau. 

of  William  H.  and  Sarah  Morrill  Heath  of  Deering,  N.  H., 
April  2,  1858,  res.  in  West  Medford,  Mass.  Children  : 
Walter  G.,  Evelyn  T. 

4.  JAMES  BROOKS,  b.  Oct.  15,  1828,  d.  Nov.  4,  1850.  . 

5.  ASA  BALDWIN,  b.  Oct.   17,  1831,  m.  Jan.  i,  1861,  Mary  E., 

dau.  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Cutter  McCoy  of  Peterborough. 
Was  a  grocer  in  Wilton  for  several  years,  now  a  resident  of 
Wellesley,  Mass.  Child  :  Alice  B. 

6.  ELIZABETH,  b  1835,  d.  Sept.  13,  1837. 

7.  FRANK  GREY,  -f- 

DAVID  DICKEY  CLARK,  born  Sept.  18,  1817;  married  April  22, 
1842,  Sophronia,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Chandler)  Dickinson  of 
Weathersfield,  Vt.  She  was  born  Jan.  26,  1816;  died  May  13,  1872.  He 
was  a  resident  of  the  town  for  many  years ;  died  March  i,  1890.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  WILLIAM  T.,  b.  May  7,  1843,  m.  Sept.  3,  1867,  L/.  Jennie, 

dau.  of  Isaac  and  Lydia  (Thompson)  Richards  of  East 
Monmouth,  Me.  Is  a  photographer  and  res.  in  Boston, 
Mass.  Children  :  Mary  A.,  Waldo  D. 

2.  MARY  JANE,  b.  March  25,  1845,  d.  Nov.  24,  1864. 

3.  GORHAM  B.,  b.  April  18,   1847,  <*•  July  24,   1865.     Was  a 

soldier  in  the  Civil  War.     (See  Chap.  X.) 

4.  EDNA  A.,  b.  April  7,  1849,  d.  Oct.  26,  1870,  m.  Jan.  4,  1869, 

Wallace  Clark  of  Peterborough.     Child  :  Harry  B. 


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GENEALOGIES  707 

5.  LAURA  A.,  b.  March  7,  1852,  m.  George  J.  Carson.     (See 

Carson  gen.) 

6.  JAMES  L.,  JR.,  b.  May  25,  1856,  m.  Dec.  30,  1885,  Lizzie  C., 

dau.  of  David  and  Mary  (Mitchell)  Wallace  of   Nashua, 
N.  H.     Children  :  Wallace  B.,  Marion  F. 

7.  SARAH  MELISSA,  b.  Nov.  17,  1859,  m.  May  i,  1888,  Alonzo 

J.    Gove  of   Alexandria,    where    they  reside.      Children  : 
Grace  E.  G.,  Ethel  B. 

REV.  FRANK  GREY  CLARK,  born  Feb.  22,  1838.  He  prepared  for 
college  at  Appleton  Academy,  Mont  Vernon,  N.  H.  and  was  graduated 
from  Amherst  College  in  1862.  He  became  the  principal  of  Francestown 
Academy  in  August  of  the  same  year,  and  resigned  that  position  in  the 
summer  of  1867.  He  was  eminently  successful  as  a  teacher,  and  brought 
the  old  "  Academy  "  into  a  high  state  of  efficiency.  Probably  it  was 
never  more  prosperous  during  any  period  of  its  history.  He  married 
Charlotte,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Cutter  McCoy  of  Peterborough, 
Aug.  ii,  1864.  She  was  assistant  teacher  at  the  Academy,  faithful  and 
competent,  and  their  many  pupils,  scattered  now  all  over  the  country, 
regard  them  with  loving  esteem.  Graduating  in  the  special  course  at 
Andover  Theological  Seminary  in  1869,  he  was  ordained  at  Francestown, 
Sept.  2  of  that  same  year,  and  served  as  city  missionary  at  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  until  April  i,  1873.  He  was  installed  over  the  Congregational 
church,  Rindge,  N.  H.,  June  3,  1873,  an^  after  a  pastorate  of  five  years 
was  dismissed  Dec.  31,  1878.  He  was  installed  over  the  church  at 
Gloucester,  Mass.,  Jan.  28,  1879,  an(i  dismissed  April  4,  1888.  He  resided 
at  West  Medford,  Mass.,  1888  and  1889,  and  was  acting  pastor  over  a 
church  at  Arlington,  Mass.,  for  eight  months  in  1889.  Installed  at  Ply- 
mouth, N.  H.,  Jan.  2,  1890.  He  was  a  delegate  in  the  Christian  Commis- 
sion in  front  of  Petersburg,  Va.,  in  1864.  Was  superintending  school  com- 
mittee in  Francestown,  1864  and  1865,  and  a  member  of  the  school  board 
iu  Manchester  in  1873.  He  has  published  a  number  of  sermons,  and 
compiled  and  edited  pamphlets  of  value  to  the  Congregational  denomina- 
tion. He  delivered  the  historical  address  at  the  anniversary  of  the  set- 
tlement of  Lyndeborough,  Sept.  4,  1889,  and  published  the  same  in  pam- 
phlet form.  This  address  was  the  result  of  much  research  among  old 
records,  and  has  been  largely  incorporated  in  this  history. 

CLARK 

HENRY  CLARK,  born  in  Chester,  Oct.  25,  1788;  married  Nov.  7,  1816, 
Nancy,  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Nancy  (Dickey)  Clark  of  Lyndebor- 
ough. She  was  born  in  Derry,  March  30,  1795,  and  died  in  Medford, 
Mass.,  March  10,  1873.  Her  father  removed  from  Derry  to  Wilton  in 
1798,  and  thence  to  Lyndeborough  in  1815.  He  lived  on  the  place  where 
Chas.  L.  Perham  now  lives,  and  was  the  father  of  James  Lindsey  Clark, 
whose  family  register  may  be  found  in  another  place. 

Henry  Clark  bought  a  farm  in  New  Boston  and  lived  there  until  1850, 
when  he  removed  to  Lyndeborough,  where  he  died  Apr.  u,  1867.  He 
had  charge  of  the  town  farm  for  one  year,  and  then  bought  the  place  at 
the  Centre  now  best  known  as  the  Fowler  place.  Henry  Clark's  father, 


708  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

John  Clark,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution.     Children,  all  born  in  New 
Boston :  — 

1.  GEORGE,  b.  Aug.  i,  1817,  m.  Cynthia  I,.  Davis  of  Unadilla, 

N.  Y.,  Feb.  6,  1842.  He  d.  in  Medford,  Mass.,  Jan.  i, 
1880.  She  d.  Nov.  9,  1883. 

2.  CHARLES  F.,  b.  April  19,  1819,  m   April  24,  1842,  L/ydia  M. 

Rines  of  Wilton.  He  d.  in  Boston,  May  25,  1893.  She  d. 
March  17,  1860. 

3.  JAMES  L/.,  born  April  3,   1821,  m.  Nov.  8,  1841,  Sarah  A. 

Phelps  of  Andover,  N.  H.  He  d.  in  Yarmouth,  Mass., 
Dec.  12,  1864.  Shed.  1898. 

4.  HEPZIBAH  H.,  b.  Sept.  23,  1823,  m.  May  21,  1843,  Gilman 

Griffin.  He  d.  in  Somerville,  Mass.,  Sept.  18,  1856.  She 
d.  Jan.  17,  1894. 

5.  NANCY  M.,  b.  Jan.  22,   1826,  m.  Sept.  6,   1849,  Orvid  M. 

Fowler  of  Johnson,  Vt.  He  d.  in  Medford,  Mass.,  May  20, 
1899.  She  res.  in  Medford,  Mass. 

6.  HENRY,  b.  May  n,  1828,  m.  Oct.  20,  1852,  Julia  M.  Tayler 

of  Chelsea,  Mass.  She  d.  Nov.  26,  1866.  He  m.  second, 
Nancy  J.  Dennison  of  Hampton,  111.,  July  30,  1868,  where 
they  are  still  living. 

7.  WILLIAM  D.,  b.  Dec.  19,  1831,  m.  Mary  B.  Snell  of  L,ud- 

low,  Vt.,  July  i,  1855.  He  d.  in  Chicago,  111.,  Aug.  17, 
1900. 

8.  ELEANOR  J.,  b.  Aug.  12,  1834,  m.  March  30,  1856,  Stephen 

Crocker  of  Halifax,  Mass.,  m.  second,  Isaac  H.  Locke  of 
Alexander,  N.  H.,  June  8,  1867.  He  d.  in  Whitman, 
Mass.,  July  23,  1903.  She  res.  at  Whitman. 

9.  FRANKLIN   AUSTIN,  b.  Apr.   13,    1837,    m.   Oct.   28,   1862, 

Amelia  Cook  of  Medford,  Mass.     Res.  in  Ossipee,  N.  H. 

10.  DUDLEY  H.,  b.   Sept.   2,    1838,   m.  July  25,   1861,  Eldora 
Butterfield  of  Wayland,  Mass.     He  d.  in  Medford,   Mass., 
Nov.  12,  1865.     She  d.  Aug.,  1873. 

CLEMENT. 

CHARLES  O.  CLEMENT,  son  of  Archibald  and  Margaret  (Sylvester) 
Clement ;  born  in  Warren,  Me.,  Nov.  3,  1851 ;  married  June  28,  1873, 
Mary  A.,  daughter  of  Salathiel  L.  and  Mary  J.  (Carpenter)  Wheeler  of 
Windsor.  She  was  born  June  14,  1856.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  in 
1873  and  built  a  house  in  South  Lyndeborough.  He  is  a  carpenter  by 
trade,  and  is  in  the  employ  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford 
R.R.;  resides  in  Dedham,  Mass.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  : — 

i.  BERTIE  L,.,  b.  April  2,  1874,  m.  Oct.  3,  1896,  Mrs.  Emma  J. 


GENEALOGIES  709 

Farnum.  Children:  Charles  W.,  Anna  I,.  Res.  in  Ded- 
ham,  Mass. 

2.  MABEL   M.,  b.    April   9,    1877,    m.  Arthur   K.  Woodward. 

(See  Woodward  gen.) 

3.  PERLEY  E.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1882.  l V,V' 

COCHRANB. 

WILLIAM  K.  COCHRANE  purchased  the  Boardman  place  in  North 
Lyndeborough  in  1856  and  lived  there  until  1860,  when  he  removed  to 
Goffstown,  N.  H.  He  married  Lydia  Swasey.  She  died  March  17,  1879. 
He  died  April  27,  1878.  Children  :  — 

1.  ELLEN  1^.,  b.  in  Newbury,  Vt.,  Nov.  22,  1832. 

2.  WILLIAM  H.  D.,  b.  in  North  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  Dec.  29, 

1838,  m.  Irene  A.  Stokes  of  Manchester,  N.  H.,  April  12, 
1870.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War,  and  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  L,ieut.  Col. 

COIvBURN. 

JAMES  L.  COLBURN,  son  of  Leonard  and  Mary  T.  (Livingston)  Col- 
burn  ;  born  in  New  Boston,  July  8,  1842  ;  married  June  7,  1865,  Nancy  J., 
daughter  of  William  and  Lois  (Carson)  Hopkins.  He  lived  for  a  while 
after  his  marriage  in  Francestown,  then  in  Revere,  Mass.,  removing 
thence  to  Medford,  Mass.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  in  1900  and  bought 
the  mill  known  as  Buttrick's,  or  the  Eaton  mill.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Civil  War,  and  was  for  a  long  time  in  the  rebel  prison  at  Danville.  Child, 
born  in  Francestown  :  — 

i.  BERTRAND  W.,  b.  July  17,  1869. 

COIvSON. 

JAMES  COLSON,  born  in  Monroe,  Me.,  Sept.  25,  1834 ;  married  first, 
Tamson  Steele  of  Sebec,  Me.  She  was  born  June  17,  1840;  died  March 
15,  1866 ;  married  second,  July  3,  1869,  Dorcas  Libby  of  Lawrenceville, 
Canada.  She  was  born  Dec.  26,  1843.  He  was  an  employee  of  the  Elgin 
Watch  Co.,  Elgin,  111.  for  many  years.  Came  to  Lyndeborough  in  1893. 
Resides  on  the  Nelson  Cram  place,  South  Lyndeborough. 

CONANT. 

ALBERT  S.  CONANT,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  E.  (Reynolds) 
Conant;  born  July  22,  1840,  in  Antrim  ;  married  first,  Almanda  J.,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  and  Betsey  A.  (Kidder)  Ford  of  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  12, 
1868.  She  was  born  Jan.  27,  1851 ;  died  Nov.  n,  1878;  married  second, 
Oct.  ii,  1879,  Abbie  J.,  daughter  of  John  G.  and  Roxanna  (Hutchinson) 
Raymond  of  Milford,  born  Aug.  29,  1848.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough 
from  Greenfield  in  1853.  Resided  first  at  the  Dolliver  homestead  and 
later  removed  to  South  Lyndeborough  village.  Is  a  carpenter,  and  was 
a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  Child  by  first  wife :  — 


710  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

1.  CORA  J.,  b.  in  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  April  7,  1870,  m.  Fred  T. 

Banks  of  Nashua,  Nov.  28,  1889. 
By  second  wife  born  in  Lyndeborough  : 

2.  SAMUEL  J.,  b.  Nov.  24,  1880,  d.  in  infancy. 

3.  FLORENCE  J.,  b.   Aug.    15,  1882,  m.   Dec.   26,  1903,  Arthur 

L,.  Burnham  of  Hillsboro. 

CHARLES  W.  CONANT,  son  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  E.  (Reynolds) 
Conant,  born  in  Antrim,  Nov.  27,  1843 ;  married  Adaline  Gates  of  Leomin- 
ster,  Mass.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  Resides  in  Leominster, 
Mass.  (See  Chapter  X.) 

CRAM. 

JOHN  CRAM,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Weare)  Cram,  born  at 
Hampton  Falls,  Mass.,  Jan.  12,  1685;  married  Feb.  18,  1707,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Henry  and  Sarah  (Ballard)  Holt  of  Andover,  Mass.  She 
was  born  at  Andover,  Aug.  17,  1678,  and  died  at  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  i, 
1757.  He  died  at  Amherst,  1759.  So  far  as  authentic  records  show  he 
was  the  first  settler  in  Salem-Canada,  now  Lyndeborough. 

For  a  biographical  sketch  of  John  Cram  see  chapter  XXXIII. 

The  three  older  children  were  born  at  Hampton  Falls.  The  others  at 
Woburn,  Mass.  Children:  — 

1.  JONATHAN,  -+- 

2.  HUMPHREY,  b.  Nov.  8,  1710,  m.  Hannah . 

3.  PHEBE,  b.  July  8,  1712,  m.  Moses  Stiles.     (See  Stiles  gen.) 

4.  JOSEPH,  b.  Sept.  23,  1713,  d.  Dec.  24,  1794. 

5.  HULDAH,  b.   May  5,   1715,   m.   Ephraim  Woodward.     (See 

Woodward  gen.) 

6.  JOHN,  b.  April  10,  1717,  m.  Sarah . 

7.  SARAH,  b.  June  27,  1719,  m.  Ephraim  Putnam.     (See  Put- 

nam gen.) 

8.  ELIZABETH,  m.  Jonathan  Chamberlain.     (See  Chamberlain 

gen.) 

9.  ELI,  b.  March  10,  1721. 

10.  BENJAMIN,  -\- 

The  last  children  were  two  sets  of  twins. 

JONATHAN  CRAM,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Holt)  Cram;  born  at 
Hampton  Falls,  Feb.  21,  1708;  married  Dec.  i,  1732,  Mary,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Mary  Chamberlain  of  Billerica,  Mass.  She  was  born  Jan.  20, 
1706,  and  died  in  Lyndeborough,  Jan.  5,  1770.  He  died  Jan.  23,  1790.  He 
was  the  original  settler  on  the  land  where  Mrs.  John  Putnam  lives,  since 
known  as  the  Jonathan  Cram  place.  The  five  older  children  were  born  at 
Wilmington,  Mass.,  the  others  in  Lyndeborough.  Children :  — 

1 .  JONATHAN,  .+ 

2.  MARY,  b.  June  6,  1735,  d.  June  5,  1738. 

3.  DAVID,  -f 


•'  PROUD    AND    TRUE.  " 

COAT    OF    ARMS    OF    VOX   CRAM    FAMILY    OF   GERMANY. 
FROM    WHICH    THE    CRAMS     IX     AMERICA    DESCEXDED. 


GENEALOGIES  711 

4.  JACOB,  -f 

5.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Nov.  4,  1741,  m.  John  Carkin.     (See  Carkin 

gen.) 

6.  RACHEL,  b.  April  16,   1744,  m.  Ephraim  Putnam,  d.  April 

29,  1833.     (See  Putnam  gen.) 

7.  SOLOMON,  -}- 

8.  URIAH,  + 

JONATHAN  CRAM,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Chamberlain)  Cram  ; 
born  June  8,  1733  ;  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Susanna  (Stiles) 
Putnam.  She  was  born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  June  28,  1736.  He  settled  on 
Abbott  Hill,  Wilton,  and  endured  the  privations  common  to  the  pioneers 
of  a  new  country.  Children,  all  born  in  Wilton  :  — 

Sarah,  Jonathan,  Phillip,  Susanna,  Mary,  Mehitable,  Zeniah. 

DAVID  CRAM,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Chamberlain)  Cram,  born 
at  Wilmington,  Mass.,  June  26,  1737  ;  married  Mary  Badger,  daughter  of 
John  Badger  of  England,  who  was  very  early  a  settler  in  Salem-Canada. 
She  died  in  Lyndeborough,  March  10,  1825.  He  died  in  Lyndeborough, 
June  25,  1825.  He  was  the  first  settler  on  the  hill,  about  a  mile  east  of 
South  Lyndeborough  village,  where  he  lived  until  his  death.  This  farm 
has  been  in  the  posssession  of  his  descendants  ever  since,  and  is  now 
occupied  by  his  grandson,  Luther.  His  wife,  Mary  Badger,  was  one  of 
the  four  children  of  John  Badger,  whose  wife,  Mary  McFarland,  went 
three  miles  one  winter  night  to  obtain  help,  an  account  of  which  may  be 
found  in  the  sketch  of  the  Badger  family.  Children,  all  but  eldest,  born 
at  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  at  Wilton,  Dec.  29,  1761,  m.  Ambrose  Lakin. 

2.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Jan.  2,  1764,  m.  Oct.  14,  1789,  Isaac  L/ewis. 

3.  L/OUISA,  b.  Sept.  14,  1765,  m.  Darius  Jeffries. 

4.  DAVID,  -f- 

5.  HANNAH,  b.  May  26,  1769,  m.  first,  Samuel  Rogers  ;  second, 

William  Hastings. 

6.  GIDEON,  -4- 

7.  DEBORAH,  b.   July   21,    1773,    m.   June   6,    1799,  Ambrose 

Hutchinson. 

8.  ROBERT,  -f- 

9.  JONATHAN,  -\- 

10.  REBECCA,  b.  Feb.  27,  1782,  d.  Sept.  10,  1782. 

David,  Deborah,  Robert,  and  Jonathan  removed  to   Roxbury, 
Vt.,  where  they  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  there. 

DAVID  CRAM,  son  of  David  and  Mary  (Badger)  Cram,  born  May  26, 
1767 ;  married  Oct.  25,  1792,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Lucy 
(Spaulding)  Putnam.  She  was  born  at  Lyndeborough,  Jan.  16,  1773 ; 
died  in  Roxbury,  Vt.,  May  5,  1813.  He  early  removed  to  Roxbury,  Vt., 
where  he  was  one  of  the  first  settlers,  and  the  first  town  treasurer,  1796. 


712  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

He  also  held  other  public  office  and  was  an  influential  citizen.  His  chil- 
dren were  born  at  Roxbury,  with  the  exception  of  the  eldest.  Some  of 
them  came  to  L/yndeborough  :  — 

1.  EPHRAIM,  b.  at  I/yndeborough,  Sept.  15,  1793,  m.  Clarinda 

Cram,  d.  near  Great  Salt  Lake  in  1852. 

2.  PHILIP,  b.  March  18,  1795,  m.  Dec.  27,  1821,  Abigail  Heath. 

He  d.  April,  1883. 

3.  NAOMI,  b.  Aug.   21,  1797,  m.  Nov.  3,  1818,  James  Grant. 

(See  Grant  gen.) 

4.  LUCY,  b.  Sept.  4,  1799,  m.  March  28,  1820,  Joseph  Grant,  d. 

at  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  October,  1873. 

5.  SOLOMON,  -|- 

6.  HIRAM,  + 

7.  DAVID,  b.   May  8,   1805,  m.  first,  Susanna  Bridges,  March 

29,  1842  ;  second,   March  24,    1855,   Betsey  Burt.     He  d. 
Oct.  12,  1886,  at  Wilton. 

8.  ESTHER,  b.  Nov.  18,  1808,  m.  Aug.  19,  1830,  Alvin  Sawyer. 

She  d.  at  Boston,  June  26,  1898. 

9.  JOHN  P.,  b.  April  19,  1810.     Enlisted  in  the  Regular  Army 

and  was  last  heard  from  in  Prairie  Du  Chien,  Wis. 
Of  the  above  children  Ephraim  b.  Sept.  15,  1793,  m.  Clar- 
inda Cram.  She  d.  June  i,  1842.  He  d.  on  the  way  to 
California,  June  12,  1852.  They  had  ten  children  :  Sarah, 
Horace,  Chauncey  C.,  Clarinda,  Laura,  Ephraim,  Chris- 
topher, David,  Isaac,  Mary. 

SOLOMON  CRAM,  son  of  David  and  Sarah  (Putnam)  Cram,  born  at 
Roxbury,  Vt.,  Nov.  5,  1802,  and  died  at  Lyndeborough,  March  n,  1863  ; 
married  Jan.  17,  1826,  Mary,  daughter  of  James  and  Mary  (Grant)  Sar- 
gent. She  was  born  at  Hillsboro,  Oct.  28,  1804  ;  died  April  19,  1885.  He 
was  the  first  man  to  build  a  shop  and  carry  on  blacksmithing  in  South 
Lyndeborough  village.  The  two  older  children  were  born  at  Roxbury, 
the  others  at  I/yndeborough.  Children  :  — 

1.  MARY  J.,  b.  Oct.   5,  1827,  m.  first,  Samuel  Hodgeman  of 

Francestown,  Oct.  28,  1846 ;  second,  Alban  Buttrick. 

2.  SUSAN  B.,  b.  Jan.  n,   1829,  m.  John  W.  Sharp,  Dec.  19, 

1845.     Res.  at  Boston. 

3.  GEORGE  M.,  + 

4.  ORIN  N.,  -j- 

5.  AZRO  D.,  4~ 

6.  SARAH  E.,  b.    June  12,   1844,   m,   Nov.    28,    1867,  Joseph 

Sharp.     (See  Sharp  gen.) 

7.  EMMA  F.,  b.  Jan.  3,   1849,  m.  March  24,  1869,  Charles  B. 

Pinkham.     Res.  at  Milford. 


GENEALOGIES  713 

GEORGE  M.  CRAM,  son  of  Solomon  and  Mary  (Sargent)  Cram,  born 
June  20,  1831  ;  married  first,  Oct.  28,  1858,  Ellen  E.  Godding  of  Rindge ; 
second,  Mrs.  Louisa  (Godding)  Hastings.  His  first  wife  died  April  9, 
1865.  (For  George  M.  Cram's  war  record  see  Chapter  X.)  Children  :  — 

1.  GEORGE  E.,  d.  in  infancy. 

2.  CARRIE  E.,  d.  in  infancy. 

3.  OSCAR  E.,  + 

4.  CHARLIE  M.,  d.  in  infancy. 

OSCAR  E.  CRAM,  son  of  George  M.  and  Louisa  G.  Hastings  Cram ; 
born  in  Rindge,  April  2,  1866;  married  Feb.  9,  1892,  Lillian  M.,  daughter 
of  Edwin  and  Mary  E.  (Tarbell)  Swasey  ;  resides  in  Taunton,  Mass.,  and 
is  a  clerk  in  the  grocery  store  of  Cobb,  Bates  and  Yerxa  in  that  city. 

ORIN  N.  CRAM,  son  of  Solomon  and  Mary  (Sargent)  Cram,  born 
Jan.  25,  1836 ;  married  Dec.  30,  1862,  Caroline  M.,  daughter  of  Peter  and 
Mary  (Blunt)  Shedd  of  Tewksbury,  Mass.  She  was  born  Aug.  5,  1837  ; 
died  April  u,  1887.  He  died  Feb.  4,  1893.  Children  born  in  Lynde- 
borough  :  — 

1.  NELSON  S.,  b.  July  27,  1866,  d.  Oct.  16,  1904. 

2.  CHARLES,  b.  July  27,  1866. 

3.  GEORGE  W.,  b.  Aug.  20,  1867,  d.  Sept.  10,  1868. 

4.  REBECCA  W.,  b.  Dec.  6,  1869. 

5.  CARRIE  E.,  b.  Feb.  18,  1872,  d.  Oct.  n,  1872. 

AZRO  D.  CRAM,  son  of  Solomon  and  Mary  S.  (Sargent)  Cram,  born 
Aug.  6,  1838;  married  July  23,  1859,  Sarah  E.  Young.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  Civil  War.  (See  Chapter  X.)  Children  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

i.  ANDY  F.,  -}- 

i.  ADDIE  F.,  b.  May  7,  1866,  married  first,  Frank  A.  Haley. 

July  3,  1882  ;  second,  April  3,   1889,  Albert  E.  Burnham. 

Res.  at  lyowell,  Mass. 

3.  MARY  S.,  b.  Aug.  30,    1869,  m.   Nov.  9,    1889,   Willis  H. 

Draper. 

4.  ANNIE  M.,  b.  March  30,  1872,  m.  Harry  Draper. 

5.  CARRIE  B.,  b.  Sept.  n,  1875. 

ANDY  F.  CRAM,  son  of  Azro  D.  and  Sarah  (Young)  Cram  ;  born  Aug. 
n,  1860;  married  first,  Mrs.  Jennie  S.  Davidson  of  Manchester,  Oct.  15, 
1882 ;  married  second,  June  13,  1900,  Annie,  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Annie  (Brady)  Murphy  of  Durham,  Canada.  She  was  born  Aug.  16,  1868. 
Child  by  first  wife :  — 

1.  ADDIE  A.,  b.  Feb.  3,  1889. 
By  second  wife :  — 

2.  LESTER  A.,  b.  Aug.  27,  1901. 

HIRAM  CRAM,  son  of  David  and  Sarah  (Putnam)  Cram;  born  at 
Windsor,  Vt.,  Dec.  7,  1803;  married  Jan.  i,  1834,  Harriet  Tenney,  daugh- 


714  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

ter  of  William  and  Mary  (Butterfield)  Tenney,  born  in  Sharon,  N.  H., 
Aug,  13,  1808;  died  in  Peterborough,  March  9,  1857.  He  died  in  Shirley, 
Mass.,  Aug.  15,  1893.  Children,  six  elder  born  in  Sharon,  four  in  Lynde- 
borough  :  — 

1.  LUCY  M.,   b.   May  3,    1834,   m.  Oct.   18,   1852,  Samuel  M. 

Woods  of  Peterborough. 

2.  WILLIAM  H.,  b.  May  15,  1836,  m.  first  July  4,  1862,  Ellen 

P.  Henry,  m.  second,  Jan.  13,  1876,  Mary  Rutter. 

3.  MosES,  b.  June  10,  1839. 

4.  HENRY,  b.  April  10,   1841,  d.  Sept.  30,  1857,  in  Peterbor- 

ough. 

5.  JOHN  P.,  b.  May  3,  1842,  d.  June  14,  1863,  at  Port  Hudson. 

6.  DAVID  A.,  b.  Aug.  10,  1844,  d.  Aug.  29,  1862,  at  Bull  Run, 

Va. 

7.  HIRAM  T.,  -f 

8.  AUGUSTUS  B.,  b.  March  4,  1849,  m.  Oct.  31,  1871,  Anna  L. 

Hastings,  res.  Shirley,  Mass. 

9.  EDWARD  M.,  b.  Aug.  13,  1851,  m.  Nov.  28,   1878,  Ida  May 

Wilson,  res.  at  Peterborough. 

10.  EMMA  B.,  b.  Dec.  10,  1855,  d.  Oct.  30,  1858. 

HIRAM  T.  CRAM,  son  of  David  and  Harriet  (Tenney)  Cram  ;  born  at 
1/yndeborough,  March  5,  1847,  m-  Nov.  14,  1871,  Sophronia  R.  Robinson 
of  Jaffrey.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Hiram  and  Eliza  A.  (Smith)  Robin- 
son of  Rindge.  She  was  born  March  17,  1851.  Children,  all  but  Bernice 
born  at  Peterborough  :  — 

1.  ARTHUR  H.,  b.  July  23,  1874. 

2.  EVERETT  I,.,  b.  March  n,  1877. 

3.  LENA  B.,  b.  April  23,  1878. 

4.  BERNICE  C.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  May  22,  1881. 

5.  FLORENCE  M.,  b.  Nov.  23,  1886. 

GIDEON  CRAM,  son  of  David  and  Mary  (Badger)  Cram ;  born  Feb. 
25,  1771 ;  married  Amy,  daughter  of  Ensign  David  and  Abigail  (Carleton) 
(Johnson)  Putnam.  She  was  born  March  6,  1779;  died  Dec.  17,  1866.  He 
died  June  17,  1837.  Children,  all  born  at  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  DANIEL,  -|- 

2.  MARY,  b.  Nov.  25,  1803,  m.  July  30,   1850,  Herman  Pettin- 

gill,  d.  at  Amherst,  Jan.  18,  1886. 

3.  ABIGAIL,  b.  May  15,   1806,  d.  April  22,  1835,    at    Lowell, 

Mass. 

4.  LEWIS,  + 

5.  LOIS,  b.  March  2,  1813,  m.  Harvey  Holt  ot  Lyndeborough. 

(See  Holt  gen.) 

6.  LUTHER,  -f- 


GENEALOGIES  715 

7.  RHODA  EMILY,  b.  Nov.  18,  1820,  m.  first,  Eben  Palmer,  m. 

second,  Langdon  Adams.     She  d.  April  u,  1896,  at  Buf- 
falo, N.  Y. 

8.  AMY,  b.  Oct.  9,   1823,  m.  March  2,   1847,  George  W.  Bos- 

worth.     (See  Bosworth  gen.) 

DANIEL  CRAM,  son  of  Gideon  and  Amy  (Putnam)  Cram ;  born  April 
6,  1799 ;  married  first,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joel  and  Polly  (Colburn)  Holt, 
Dec.  18,  1822*  She  was  born  May  18,  1797;  died  Oct.  19,  1837.  Married 
second,  Oct.  13,  1853,  Susan  M.,  daughter  of  John  Whittemore  of  Chester. 
She  was  born  July  12,  1826;  died  June  8,  1855.  Married  third,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Abel  Blood  of  Merrimac.  She  was  born  June  9,  1806 ;  died 
Feb.  3,  1878.  He  was  a  very  public  spirited  and  useful  man  in  the  com- 
munity. First  clerk  of  the  Baptist  church  of  which  he  was  a  member 
and  deacon  and  a  liberal  supporter  of  preaching.  He  removed  to  Am- 
herst  and  died  there  Aug.  5,  1880.  Children,  all  but  youngest  born  in 
Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  lyAURA,  b.  July  6,  1824,  m.  Nov.  26,  1840,  William  Burtt  of 

Brookline.     She  d.  in  Milford,  Oct.  25,  1891. 

2.  JULIA  A.,  b.  Aug.  22,   1825,  m.  June  4,   1845,   Samuel  H. 

Hill,  res  in  Milford. 

3.  DANIEL  H.,  b.  April  9,  1827,  d.  Aug.  3,  1831. 

4.  DAVID,   b.   March  20,   1830,  m.  June   18,   1856,  Nancy  A. 

Scales  of  Townsend,  Mass.,  res.  in  Townsend.     Two  chil- 
dren, Charles  D.  and  Emma  M. 

5.  LOUISA,   b.   Feb.    16,    1832,    m.    Frank   Davis.      She  d.  in 

Palmer,  Mass.,  Jan.  13,  1878. 

6.  EMILY,  b.  Dec.  24,  1836,  m.  May  14,   1863,  Joseph  G.  Hoi- 

brook.     She  d.  in  Bedford,  Sept.  n,  1893. 

7.  DANIEL  W.,  b.  at  Milford,  July  25,  1854. 

LEWIS  CRAM,  son  of  Gideon  and  Amy  (Putnam  Cram  ;  born  Dec.  8, 
1808 ;  married  Jan.  18,  1831,  Anna,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah 
(Badger)  Woodward  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Feb.  23,  1801  ;  died 
in  Addison,  N.  Y.,  July  21,  1874.  He  died  at  Addison,  Jan.  13,  1887.  He 
removed  about  1836  to  Jasper,  N.  Y.  Children,  two  eldest  born  in  Lynde- 
borough, the  others  in  Jasper,  N.  Y.: — 

1.  LOUISA  A.  W.,  b.  Dec.  29,  1833,  d.  July  13,  1841. 

2.  GIDEON  I,.,  b.  Nov.  6,  1835,  d.  Nov.  22,  1835. 

3.  MARY  A.,  b.  Sept.  10,  1836,  m.  Mar.  30,   1854,  Isaac  June 

of  Addison,  N.  Y.     She  died  there  Sept.  17,  1881. 

4.  AMY  M.,  b.  April  29,  1840,  d.  April  19,  1850. 
4.  PUTNAM  A.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1843,  d.  Nov.  26,  1843. 

LUTHER  CRAM,  son  of  Gideon  and  Amy  (Putnam)  Cram;  born  Dec. 

8.  1818 ;  married  April  4,   1844,  Lucy,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and   Lois 
(Butler)  Hackett,  born  in  Lempster,  Feb.  14,  1819.     He  inherited  the 


716  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

homestead  farm,  and  with  the  exception  of  seven  years  spent  in  New 
York  state,  has  always  lived  there.  In  1853  he  went  to  Salamanca,  N.  Y., 
returning  to  Lyndeborough  in  1861.  While  there  he  held  some  public 
office.  In  Lyndeborough  he  has  been  honored  by  about  all  the  offices  in 
the  gift  of  the  town.  He  was  selectman  for  many  years,  and  represented 
the  town  in  the  legislature  two  terms.  He  has  always  encouraged  by  his 
active  work,  by  his  presence  at  meetings,  and  in  other  ways,  the  educa- 
tional and  temperance  interests  of  the  town.  He  has  also  been  promi- 
nent in  the  local  military  organizations,  and  in  early  life  was  their  drill 
master,  and  was  captain  of  the  Light  Infantry  Co.  At  this  writing,  1903, 
his  memory  of  the  persons  and  events  of  his  early  days  is  good  and  has 
been  of  material  benefit  to  this  history.  Children,  born  at  Lyndebor- 
ough : — 

1.  ABBIE  F.,  b.  July  10,  1845. 

2.  EVERETT  A.,  b.  Jan.   10,   1848.      (For  military  record  see 

Chap.  X.) 

3.  FRANK  W.,  + 

4.  MYRTIE  M.,  b.  June  25,  1863,  d.  Dec.  19,  1879. 

FRANK  WILLIS  CRAM,  son  of  Luther  Cram  of  Lyndeborough,  and 
Lucy  Almira  Hackett  of  Lempster,  N.  H.  He  was  born  in  Lyndebor- 
ough,  Oct.  26,  1854;  married  first,  at  Fort  Gratiot,  Mich.,  in  February, 
1884,  to  Annie  May,  who  died  Jan.  18,  1885,  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  He  married 
second,  at  Grand  Haven,  Mich.,  Aug.  23, 1887,  Fannie  Hart  Warren,  born 
at  Chicago,  111.,  July  26,  1861,  daughter  of  Luther  Barstow  Warren  and 
Harriet  Louise  Woodward  of  New  York,  who  reside  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
Mr.  Cram  is  a  travelling  salesman,  and  resides  in  St.  Louis.  Children  :  — 

1.  FRANK  WILLIS,  JR.,  b.  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  8,  1885. 

2.  LOUISE  ALMIRA,  b.  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Nov.  7,  1887. 

3.  HATTIE  MYRTIE,  b.  at  St,  Louis,  Mo.,  Nov.  28,  1892. 

4.  LUTHER  EVERETT,  b.  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Nov.  24,  1894,  d. 

Jan.  26,  1897. 

5.  AMY  DEAN,  b.  at  St.  Louis,  December,  1897. 

ROBERT  CRAM,  son  of  David  and  Mary  (Badger)  Cram ;  born  June 
27,  1776;  married  Jan.  19,  1801,  Hannah  Webster,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Mary  Webster.  She  was  born  in  Hyde  Park,  Vt.,  April  5,  1775,  and 
died  there  Feb.  24,  1863.  He  died  at  Roxbury  Vt.,  Sept.  23,  1854.  He 
went  with  his  brother  Jonathan  to  Plattsburg  in  Capt.  Orcutt's  Co.  He 
was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Roxbury,  and  held  many  offices.  Children, 
born  at  Roxbury  Vt.  : 

Martin,   John,   James,    Hannah,  Daniel,  Anna,   Elhanan  W., 
Truman,  Betsey  E. 

JONATHAN  CRAM,  son  of  David  and  Mary  (Badger)  Cram;  born 
March  9,  1779;  married  March  15,  1804,  Lydia  Smith  of  Williamstown, 
Vt.  She  was  born  Nov.  4,  1784,  and  died  there  Sept.  7,  1840.  He  died  at 
Williamstown,  March  21,  1869.  According  to  the  History  of  Roxbury, 
Vt.,  Jonathan  Cram  was  a  sergeant  in  Capt.  Orcutt's  Co.,  which  marched 


GENEALOGIES  717 

to  Plattsburg,  Sept.  10,  1814,  and  returned  Sept.  16,  having  been  too  late 
for  the  battle.     Children,  all  born  in  Williamstown  :  — 

Allen,  Patty  A.,  Jonathan,  Lucinda,  Chester,  Joel,  L,angdon, 
Erastus,  Truman,  James  R.,  Lydia  L/.,  Mary,  Abigail, 
Reuben. 

JACOB  CRAM,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Chamberlain)  Cram;  born 
at  Wilmington,  Mass.,  Oct.  5,  1739;  married  Isabella  Hutchinson.  She 
was  born  Dec.,  1739,  and  died  in  Lyndeborough,  Feb.  3,  1812.  She  was 
from  Danvers,  Mass.  He  settled  on  what  is  now  known  as  Perham 
Corner,  upon  laud  that  was  easier  to  clear  and  more  free  from  stone 
than  the  average  wild  land,  and  so  it  is  said  that  he  was  able  to  enjoy  the 
comforts  of  life  a  little  earlier  than  his  pioneer  neighbors.  Children,  all 
born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  + 

2.  JACOB   -|- 

3.  OLIVE,  b,  Oct.  6,  1769,  m.  Nov.  25,  1788,  John  Cram.     She 

d.  March  16,  1851,  at  Hallowell,  Me. 

4.  ZEBULON,  -(- 

5.  RACHEL,    b.   July   5,    1777,    m.    March   30,    1799,    William 

Fuller. 

6.  SARAH,  b.  Aug.   25,    1781,  m.  Dec.,    1813,  Jesse  Fales  of 

L/itchfield,  Me.     She  d.  there  Aug.  27,  1869. 

7.  REBECCA,  b.  March  9,  1784,  m.  Dec.  5,  1804,  Andrew  Har- 

wood  of  L/yndeborough.     She  d.  Sept.  n,  1867. 

JOHN  CRAM,  son  of  Jacob  and  Isabella  (Hutchinson)  Cram,  born 
Nov.  4,  1763  ;  married  May  3,  1786,  Huldah,  daughter  of  Eleazer  and 
Hannah  (Putnam)  Woodward  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  June 
23,  1765 ;  died  Jan.  14,  1853.  He  died  Aug.  30,  1833.  Children  born  in 
Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  ISRAEL,  b.  July,   1790,  m.  July  9,   1818,  Abigail  Kendall. 

She  d.  June  n,  1864.  He  d.  Feb.  20,  1868.  Israel  Cram 
left  by  will  four  hundred  dollars  to  the  town  of  Lyndebor- 
ough, the  interest  of  which  is  to  be  used  annually  as  a 
literary  fund. 

2.  SARAH,  m.  William  A.  Pearsons,  Jan.  6,   1833.     Rem.  to 

Woburn,  Mass. 

3.  MEHITABLE,  b.  Nov.  2,  1801  ;  m.  Oct.  23,  1823,  Edgar  Rand 

of  L/yndeborough.     She  d.  May  5,  1832.     (See  Rand  gen.) 

JACOB  CRAM,  son  of  Jacob  and  Isabella  (Hutchinson)  Cram,  born 
Nov.  23,  1765  ;  married  Sept.  24,  1787,  Martha  Doak,  born  at  Lyndebor- 
ough, May  n,  1771,  and  died  at  Litchfield,  Me.,  Feb.  16,  1835.  He  died 
at  Litchfield,  Jan.  16,  1815.  He  removed  to  Litchfield,  Me.,  probably  in 
1793.  The  first  three  children  were  born  at  Lyndeborough,  the  others  at 
Litchfield :  — 


718  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

1.  WILLIAM,  b.  Feb.    16,   1788,  m,  first,  Dec.   27,    1821,   Zoa 

Moody;  second,  May  18,  1825,  Lucinda  White. 

2.  BETSEY,  b.  Nov.  26,   1789,  m.  May  7,  1813,  Stephen  Pills- 

bury.     She  d.  at  Hallowell,  Me.,  March  2,  1856. 

3.  JOHN,  b.  Nov.  16,  1791,  m.  Sept.  16,  1820,  Louisa  Benjamin. 

He  d.  at  Boston,  Aug.  20,  1823. 

4.  SAMUEL,  b.  Feb.  20,  1794,  d.  May  27,  1805. 

5.  STEPHEN,  b.  Sept.  10,  1796,  d.  Oct.  24,  1885,  at  Topsham, 

Maine. 

6.  SARAH  E.,  b.  Jan.  4,  1799,  m.  first,  Joseph  Norris;  second, 

Archibald  Horn. 

7.  NANCY,  b.  Dec.  26,  1801,  m.  Charles  French. 

8.  FANNY,  b.  Nov.  23,  1804,  m.  James  G.  Judkins. 

9.  SAMUEL,  b.  Feb.  12,  1806,  d.  1817. 

10.  ALVIN,  b.  Aug.  12,  1808,  d.  1810. 

ZEBULON  CRAM,  son  of  Jacob  and  Isabella  (Hutchinson)  Cram, 
born  March  29,  1772;  married  June  21,  1799,  Anice  Hutchinsoii  of  Lyude- 
borough.  She  was  born  June  19,  1775,  and  died  in  I/itchfield,  Me.,  Dec. 
22,  1844.  He  died  there  Feb.  n,  1852.  Children  born  at  Lyndeborough 
and  Litchfield :  — 

1.  REBECCA,  b.  June  21,  1800,  d.  June  25,  1852. 

2.  JOHN  H.,   b.   Dec.   22,    1802,  m.  April  15,   1835,  M.  Eliza 

Davis. 

SOLOMON  CRAM,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Chamberlain)  Cram ; 
born  at  Lyndeborough,  1744 ;  married  Mary  ,  born  at  Lynde- 

borough,  April  21,  1819.     He  died  May  i,  1825.     Children,  born  at  Lynde- 
borough :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  1772,  d.  Oct.  3,  1777. 

2.  SARAH,  b.  1774,  d.  Sept.  23,  1777. 

3.  JAMES,  b.  Aug.,  1777,  d.  Oct.  3,  1860. 

4.  MARY,  b.  1779,  d.  Sept.  24,  1781. 

URIAH  CRAM,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Chamberlain)  Cram,  born 
1750;  married  Eunice  Ellingwood.  She  was  born  1745;  died  Dec.  i, 
1831.  He  died  Oct.  2,  1831.  Children  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  HENRY,  -j- 

2.  JOSEPH,  born  April  22,    1784,  m.  Dec.   24,  1818,  Elizabeth 

Brown  of  Billerica.     He  died  July  21,  1858. 

3.  EUNICE  S.,    b.   August,    1786,    m.    William   Abbott.     (See 

Abbott  gen.) 

4.  JAMES,  + 

5.  L,YDIA,  b.  June  27,  1790,  d.  Aug.  3,  1794. 

HENRY  CRAM,  son  of  Uriah  and  Eunice  (Ellingwood)  Cram,  born 
1780;  married  Rhoda,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Lois  (Hoyt)  Carleton. 


GENEALOGIES  719 

She  was  born  June  29,  1783 ;  died  Oct.  8,  1855.     He  died  Nov.  30,  1848. 
Children  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  PETER  b.  July  14,  1807,  d.  at  Ulman's  Ridge,  Mo.,  Aug.  5, 

1869,  m.  Rebecca,  K.  Potter  of  Francestown.  Peter  Cram 
was  a  farmer  and  was  once  county  commissioner  and  select- 
man several  years.  He  removed  to  the  West  about  1858. 
Four  of  their  children  were  born  at  Mont  Vernon  and  three 
at  Decatur,  111.  Their  names  were  :  Rhoda  C.,  Moses  D., 
Illia  M.,  Henry  I,.,  Mark  P.,  Virgil  H.,  Eunice. 

2.  MOSES  H.,  b.  May  20,  1813,  d.  Aug.  27,  1848. 

JAMES  CRAM,  son  of  Uriah  and  Eunice  (Ellingwood)  Grain,  born 
March  13,  1788 ;  married  Lucy  Brown  of  Billerica.  She  was  born  Feb.  i, 
1804  ;  died  Nov.  i,  1884.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth 
(Noyes)  Brown.  He  died  June  29,  1861.  With  no  advantages  for  school- 
ing but  the  winter  terms  of  the  district  school  of  his  day,  and  no  higher 
text  book  than  Pike's  Arithmetic  he  became  a  good  land  surveyor  and 
was  much  employed  in  running  lines  in  the  town.  It  is  said  he  did  very 
satisfactory  work.  With  his  brother  Henry  and  nephew,  Peter  Cram, 
he  started  and  operated  an  iron  foundry  for  the  manufacture  of  pots, 
kettles,  andirons,  boxes  for  wheels-hubs,  etc.  Children  born  at  Lynde- 
borough :  — 

1.  NANCY  E.,  b.  Feb.  21,  1832,  d.  April  17,  1832. 

2.  ALBERT,  -|- 

3.  CHARLES  H.,   b.   Nov.  3,   1836,  m.   April   13,   1863,  Sarah 

Van  Buskirk.     Rem.  to  Watseka,  111. 

ALBERT  CRAM,  son  of  James  and  Lucy  (Brown)  Cram,  born  Nov. 
8,  1834;  married  May  31,  1869,  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary 
(Emerson)  Brown  of  Wilmington,  Mass.  She  died  Nov.  14,  1897. 
Children :  — 

i.  ADDIE  M.,  b.  Jan.  29,  1871,  d.  July  20,  1874. 

BENJAMIN  CRAM,  son  of  John  and   Sarah    (Holt)   Cram;    born  at 

Woburn,  Mass.,  March  10,  1721  ;  died  in  1823.    His  wife  was  Elizabeth 

Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  MARGARET,  m.  Jonathan  Chamberlain.     (See  Chamberlain 

gen.) 

2.  NATHAN,  + 

3.  BENJAMIN,  -(- 

4.  HUUDAH,  d.  at  Greenfield. 

5.  JONAH. 

6.  DAVID,  b.  1768,  d.  May,  1838. 

NATHAN  CRAM,  son  of  Benjamin  Cram  of  Woburu,  Mass.,  and 
Elizabeth,  his  wife,  born  in  Lyndeborough,  April  5,  1752;  married 
Rachel  Button,  born  at  Lyndeborough,  Sept.  9,  1757;  died  at  Hancock, 
Aug.  15,  1835.  He  died  at  Hancock,  Jan.  21,  1851.  Children  :  — 


720  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

1.  NATHAN,  b.  1771.     Died  young. 

2.  RACHEL,    b.  June    15,    1773,    m.    Nov.    30,    1797,  William 

Stuart  of  Peterboro.     She  d.  at  Peterboro,  Oct.  13,  1833. 

3.  NATHAN,  b.  Sept.  9,  1776,  m.  Elizabeth  White,  d.  at  Bel- 

fast, Me.,  Oct.  8,  1815. 

4.  JOSIAH  BUTTON,  + 

5.  HULDAH,  born  June  30,   1782,  m.  Nov.   27,   1804,    Gilbert 

McCoy  of  Belfast,  Me.     He  d.  Nov.  18,  1857. 

6.  SALLY  P.,  b.  Sept.   12,  1783,  m.  May  19,  1804,  Joseph  Tyr- 

rell of  Hancock.     She  d.  at  Dublin,  Dec.  18,  1863. 

7.  BETSEY,  b.  March  5,  1786,  d.  Sept.  7,  1805. 

8.  POLLY,  b.    May  9,    1788,  m.    March,    18,    1806,    Jonathan 

Barnard  of  Hancock,  d.  Sept.  n,  1801. 

9.  JOSEPH,  b.  at  Greenfield,  March  26,  1789,  m.  July  4,   1817, 

Sally  White  of  Peterboro.     He  d.   at  Peterboro,  Nov.   28, 

1873- 

10.  BENJAMIN,  b.  March  26,  1789,  (twin  with  Joseph),  m.  first, 
Jane  Alexander,  second,  Ruth  Nutt,  d.  at  Wilton,  111. 

n.  ANNA  H.,  b.  June  25,  1791,   m.   May  29,   1810,   Samuel 
Tyrrell  of  Hancock,  d.  at  Plum  Island,  111. 

12.  ABIGAIL  J.,   b.  July  3,    1793,    m.   Dec.   i,    1836,   Francis 
Thompson. 

13.  EZRA  DUTTON,  b.  June  10,  1795,  m.  I/ucy  Cilly.     He  d.  at 
Brooks,  Me.  Nov.  n,  1868. 

14.  PHEBE,  b.  April  21,  1797,  m.  first,  Meshack  Tenny,  m.  sec- 
ond, Gales,  m.  third,  Black,  m.  fourth,  Blair. 

15.  EPHRAIM,  b.  at  Antrim,  March  25,  1800,  d.  Sept.  5,  1800. 

16.  SAMUEL,   b.    at  Antrim,    Sept.    9,    1802,    m.    1831,    Sarah 
A.  Wheeler.     He  d.  at  Bennington. 

JOSIAH  DUTTON  CRAM,  son  of  Nathan  and  Rachel  (Button)  Cram  ; 
born  March  28,  1799 ;  married  Deidamia  Button,  daughter  of  Benjamin 
and  Sarah  (Stiles)  Button.  She  was  born  April  29,  1784;  died  at  Han- 
cock, July,  1858.  Children,  none  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

Deidamia,  Benjamin,  Josiah,  Sally,   Nathan,  Reuben,  Joseph, 
Sally,  Rachel,  Relief,  Reuben  D.,  Abigail. 

BENJAMIN  CRAM,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  Cram  of  Woburn, 
Mass.,  born  at  Lyndeborough,  in  1754  ;  died  July  31,  1836.  He  married 
Olive,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Cram)  Chamberlain,  born 
Aug.  16,  1750.  Children  :  — 

1.  DANIEL,  who  died  when  about  17  years  of  age. 

2.  BENJAMIN,  -}- 

BENJAMIN  CRAM,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Olive  (Chamberlain)  Cram, 


GENEALOGIES  721 

born  March  8,  1774;  married  July  16,  1799,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Eleazer 
and  Hannah  (Putnam)  Woodward.  She  was  born  Feb.  6,  1779.  He 
married  second,  Polly  Vose  of  Stoughton,  Mass.,  born  June  14,  1780;  died 
at  New  Ipswich,  Jan.  8,  1836.  He  died  at  New  Ipswich,  April  12,  1835. 
The  first  two  children  of  Benjamin  Cram  were  by  his  first  wife,  daugh- 
ter of  his  nearest  neighbor  in  I/yndeborough.  When  a  young  man  he 
used  to  drive  a  double  ox-team  from  Lyndeborough  to  Boston  to  sell  the 
produce  of  the  farm,  and  winters  he  lived  in  Boston,  for  the  better 
opportunities  to  earn  money.  His  first  wife  died  in  Boston,  where  he 
also  met  his  second  wife,  Polly  Vose,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Hannah 
(Holmes)  Vose.  Children  born  at  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  ABIJAH,  b,  December,  1800,  killed  by  falling  at  a  mill  rais- 

ing in  Troupsbury,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  13,  1826. 

2.  SARAH,  b.  June  12,  1804,  m.  Oct.   16,  1828,  Thomas  Whit- 

ing, b.  at  kyndeborough,  April  30,  1802,  d.  at  Jasper,  N. 
Y.(  Oct.  30,  1878.  Children,  all  born  at  Jasper,  N.  Y.:  - 
i.  Sarah,  b.  Aug.  7,  1829,  m.  William  Schenck,  Dec.  25, 
1849,  res.  at  Jasper;  2.  Austis,  b.  March  28,  1832,  res.  at 
Jasper,  d.  March  12,  1855  ;  3.  Oliver,  b.  Dec.  28,  1834,  m- 
Martha  A.  Prentice,  Dec.  19,  1858,  res.  at  Jasper,  N.  Y.; 

4.  Benjamin,  b.  July  25,  1838,  d.  Feb.  n,  1850,  res.  Jasper; 

5.  Harvey,  b.    May  24,    1841,    d.   Jan.    26,    1852,  res.    at 
Jasper;  6.  Cynthia,  b.  Nov.  8,  1844. 

3.  HANNAH  V.,    b.   Feb.   n,  1807,  m.  Oct.   19,  1831,  Alonzo 

Draper.     She  d.  Jan.  29,  1892. 

4.  MARY,  b.  Sept.  n,  1810,  d.  June  17,  1833. 

5.  L,UKE,  b.  July  25,   1812,  d.   March   18,  1879,  at  Fitchburg, 

Mass.,  m.  Nov.  29,  1840,  Sarah  A,  Preston. 

6.  DANIEL,,  + 

7.  HIRAM,  b.  Nov.   3,  1818,  d.   March  2,  1854,  at  Yuba  Co., 

Cal. 

8.  BENJAMIN  H.,  b.   March  19,  1820,  m.   Elizabeth  Bradbury 

Leighton,  Oct.  17,  1842. 

9.  JEREMIAH,  b.  April  n,  1822,  d.  Sept.  21,  1844. 

DANIEL  CRAM,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Polly  (Vose)  Cram;  born  in 
Lyndeborough,  Jan.  8,  1815  ;  died  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Jan.  10,  1898  ;  occupa- 
tion, contractor.  He  married  Feb.  22,  1841,  Mary  Ann  MacNulty,  born 
in  Northumberland,  Eng.,  June  2,  1817;  died  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Nov.  i, 
1898.  He  was  educated  in  the  village  school.  At  an  early  age  he  was 
compelled  to  work,  and  at  fifteen  did  a  man's  work  in  a  brick  yard.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  was  a  foreman  in  charge  of  railroad  construction. 
When  the  Boston  &  Albany  R.R.  was  in  course  of  construction  over  the 
Berkshire  hills,  he  had  charge  of  some  of  the  work.  He  was  one  of  the 
pioneer  contractors  of  Massachusetts,  having  built  reservoirs,  dams,  sea- 
walls, wharves  and  railroad  work  in  and  around  Boston.  He  also  went 


722  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

up  into  New  York  state  in  the  '50*3  and  built  a  railroad.  In  1850  he  had 
the  "  gold  fever,"  and  crossed  the  isthmus  of  Panama  to  California,  where 
he  erected  the  first  crushing  machine  put  up  in  that  country,  for  the 
Fremont  Mining  Co.  He  also  had  very  valuable  claims,  but  had  to  sell 
them  for  a  small  price  and  come  away,  being  sick  with  the  fever  so  prev- 
alent in  those  days  in  California. 

During  the  Rebellion  he  was  one  of  a  firm  which  had  a  large  govern- 
ment contract  to  supply  certain  regiments  with  beef.  In  1876  he  went  to 
Canada,  having  a  large  contract  on  the  celebrated  Welland  Canal  at  St. 
Catharine,  Ont.,  remaining  three  years.  He  then  came  over  to  New 
York  state,  had  contracts  on  the  four-tracking  of  the  N.  Y.  Central, 
and  also  on  the  Delaware,  Lackawanna  &  Western  R.  R.  He  was  of  an 
inventive  turn,  having  invented  and  patented  a  cap  for  a  derrick  at  eighty 
years  of  age.  He  retired  from  active  work  about  his  seventy-fifth  year. 
He  had  always  been  a  Baptist  in  faith,  and  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven 
he  was  baptized  and  taken  into  the  church.  He  was  a  man  of  wonder- 
ful strength  and  fine  physique,  standing  six  feet  high,  weighing  250  Ibs. 
He  lifted  1,125  Iks.  dead  weight,  without  harness,  three  railroad  rails, 
in  the  presence  of  a  number  of  people  in  East  Boston.*  Children,  all 
born  in  Boston  :  — 

1.  GEORGE  WASHINGTON,  -f- 

2.  MARY  JANE,  b.  June  25,  1843. 

3.  ELIZABETH  ANN,  b.  Aug.  14,  1845. 

4.  DANIEL  HENRY,  b.  Aug.   12,    1847,  m.  Alice  B.  Barry  of 

Boston,  Mass. 

5.  SARAH  MELISSA,  b.  July  24,  1849,  m.  Menas  Faustinode  de 

Mena  of  Porto  Rico. 

6.  JOSEPHINE  LILLY,  June  n,  1852,  m.  Eugene  Francis  Smith 

of  Newark,  N.  J. 

7.  ADELINE    NELDA,    b.    Sept.    13,    1854,    m.    Alva    Leonard 

Spring,  d.  New  York  City. 

8.  IDA  MAY,  b.  Jnly  25,  1856,  d.  Boston,  May  16,  1858. 

9.  BENJAMIN  MANLY,  b.  Aug.  19,  1858,  m.  Olive  Orinda  Hunt 

of  Bath,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  7,  1883. 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON  CRAM,  son  of  Daniel  and  Mary  Ann 
(MacNulty)  Cram,  was  born  at  East  Boston,  Mass.,  Jan.  25,  1842  ;  married 
Lydia  Ann  Bartlett  of  Newburyport,  Mass.,  Jan.  25,  1865,  who  was  born 
July  n,  1841,  daughter  of  Horace  William  Bartlett  of  Salem,  Mass.,  and 
Ann  Maria  Currier  of  Newburyport,  Mass.  He  was  by  occupation  a  rail- 
road contractor.  Mr.  Cram,  though  but  a  grandson  of  I/yndeborough, 
with  commendable  loyalty  to  his  kindred,  wished  to  have  a  name  and 
place  with  his  worthy  ancestry  in  our  history.  When  he  had  been  re- 
quested by  a  relative  to  give  some  account  of  what  he  had  done  in  his 
line  of  work,  he  gave  a  summary  of  his  achievements  which  is  so  re- 
markable as  to  have  few  parallels  anywhere.  He  is  a  railroad  contractor 
and  builder  and  wrote,  "  I  built  the  Bethel  and  Hawleyville  Branch 

*  Substance  of  above  sketch  given  by  his  son  George  Washington  Cram. 


GENEALOGIES  723 

Road,  the  Peterboro  R.  R.  from  Wilton  to  Greenfield,  N.  H. ;  the 
Swampscott  &  Marblehead  Branch  road,  the  North  Brookfield  Branch 
road,  the  additional  tracks  from  New  Rochelle  Junction  to  Mamaroneck, 
for  the  N.  Y.,  N.  H.  &  H.  R.  R.  Co.,  that  portion  of  the  Meriden,  Water- 
bury  &  Cromwell  R.  R.  through  Waterbury,  difficult  work  it  was  too ; 
and  the  contract  for  the  rock  excavations  through  the  Newtons  in  1896- 
1897,  for  the  Boston  &  Albany  R.  R.  Co.,  and  portions  of  the  old  Boston 
&  Hartford  R.  R.  east  of  Willimantic  and  west  of  Waterbury,  Conn,  the 
Delaware,  I/ackawanna  &  Western  R.  R.  through  Steuben  Co.,  and  sub- 
contract for  sections  17  and  18,  earth  work  and  timber,  do.  the  Welland 
Canal  through  Thorold,  Canada.  I  have  built  Waterworks,  Sewers  in 
various  cities  and  towns  here  in  the  New  England  States." 

"I  superintended  and  built  the  dam  for  the  Borough  of  Norwalk,  Ct., 
in  Lewisboro,  N.  Y.  I  do  not  suppose  every  grandson  of  I/yndeborough 
has  built  as  many  miles  of  railroad  as  I  have  here  in  the  New  England 
States.  I  have  done  more  large  contracts  than  my  father  and  brother 
together  have  done." 

"  The  Sewer  contracts,  large  ones,  were  for  the  city  of  Salem,  towns  of 
North  Brookfield  and  Southbridge,  Mass.  The  same  for  the  Borough  of 
Norwalk,  Conn.,  in  the  town  of  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y.,  New  Bedford 
Water  Works,  City  of  Salem  extensions  to  the  Willows ;  So.  Norwalk, 
Ct.,  Norwalk  and  Waterbury,  Ct.,  and  Welland  Canal."  Children  :  —  . 

1.  ALBERT  STEVENS,  b.  at  Newburyport,  Oct.  31,  1865,  d.  at 

Norwalk,  Conn.,  Oct.  26,  1890.  He  studied  law  during 
the  years  1884  and  1885,  at  the  law  school  of  Yale  Uni- 
versity, New  Haven,  Conn.  He  had  to  give  up  studying, 
owing  to  ill  health. 

2.  GEORGE  EVERSLEIGH,  b.  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  Oct.  14,  1875. 

He  graduated  from  the  Norwalk  ' '  Over  River ' '  school  in 
1892,  and  prepared  with  private  tutors  for  the  Sheffield 
Scientific  School.  He  graduated  from  the  Sheffield  Scien- 
tific School  June  28,  1898,  with  the  degree  of  Ph.B.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Freshman  boat  crew  of  1898,  which 
beat  the  Harvard  and  Columbia  Freshmen  boat  crews  at 
New  lyondon.  He  pulled  the  bow  oar.  He  entered  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  Columbia  University 
in  the  City  of  New  York,  October,  1897.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  of  which  the  entire 
family  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  W.  Cram  are  members. 

3.  ALICE  BARTLETT,  b.  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  Oct.  15,  1877. 

4.  CLARENCE  CURRIER,  b.  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  Feb.  28,  1880. 

JOHN  CRAM,  son  of  John  and  Susanna  (Fuller)  Cram,  born  in 
Wilton,  Oct.  15,  1768;  married  Nov.  25,  1784,  Olive,  daughter  of  Jacob 
and  Isabella  (Hutchinson)  Cram  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Oct. 
6,  1769;  died  at  Hallowell,  Me.,  March  16,  1851.  He  died  at  Hallowell, 


724  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

Me.,  June  4,  1818.    Two  of  their  children  born  at  Lyndeborough  and  the 
last  two  at  Gardiner,  Me. :  — 

1.  DANIEL,   b.  July  23,   1790,  m.  Polly  French  of  Jay,  Me., 

March  20,  1813.     He  d.  at  Hallowell,  Me.,  May  8,  1827. 

2.  OLIVE,  b.  June   14,  1792,  m.   Nov.   3,  1814,  Jeremiah  Mc- 

Causlin,  d.  Oct.  18,  1851,  at  West  Gardiner,  Me. 

3.  BENJAMIN,  b.  Jan.  3,  1802,  m.  Sept.  30,  1824,  Phebe  Good- 

win of  Hallowell,  Me.     He  d.  at  New  Orleans,  June  4,  1829. 

4.  JACOB,  b.  Aug.  2,  1804,  d.  young. 

CUMMINGS. 

DBA.  SAMUEL  S.  CUMMINGS  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Bed- 
ford,  N.  H.,  in  1850.  He  came  on  a  bed,  having  been  accidently 
shot  at  a  muster,  and  his  shoulder  shattered.  He  lived  at  the  Center  in 
the  house  with  Nathaniel  Jones  for  a  short  time  and  then  removed  to  a 
farm  about  a  mile  north  of  the  South  Village  where  he  lived  the  remain- 
der of  his  days.  He  was  made  a  deacon  of  the  Baptist  Church  in  1881. 
He  was  born  in  Bedford,  N.  H.,  July  26,  1818  ;  married  Mary  E.  Dow  of 
Wolfboro,  N.  H.,  Sept.  7,  1845.  She  was  born  Jan.  5,  1828.  He  died 
Sept.  7,  1897.  Children  :  — 

1.  CHARLES  P.,  + 

2.  MARY  T.  ELLA,  b.  in  Bedford,   N.   H.,  July  29,  1848,  m. 

James  F.  Haley  of  Salem,  Mass.,  Nov.   28,  1867,  d.   Nov. 
5,  1881. 

3.  L/YDIA  J.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  April  18,  1850,  d.  Aug.  28, 

1854. 

4.  ALFARETTA,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  April  24,  1853,  d.  June  5, 

1854. 

5.  WILLIE  H.,  b.  in  L/yndeborough,  Sept.  25,  1855,  m.  Minnie 

F.  Roach  of  Boston,  Mass.,  June  27,  1887.     She  was  born 
March  27,  1861.     Res.  in  Manchester,  N.  H. 

6.  SANFORD  S.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Jan.  24,  1858,  m.  Jennie 

S.  Jacobs  of  L/ynn,  Mass.,  April  4,  1884.     She  was  b.  Jan. 
14,  1864.     Res.  in  Lynn,  Mass. 

7.  HARRY  E.,  b.  Nov.  24,  1860,  m.  Sadie  E.  Blake  of  Lynn, 

Mass.,  May  31,  1888.     She  was  b.  Feb.  5,  1868.     Res.  in 
Beverly,  Mass. 

8.  EMMA  A.,  b.  April  7,  1853,  d.  Oct.  i,  1854.     (Adopted) 

CHARLES  P.  CUMMINGS,  son  of  Samuel  S.  and  Mary  (Dow)  Cum- 
mings,  born  in  Bedford,  N.  H.,  April  16,  1847;  married  Nellie  E.  Wood- 
worth  of  Fayette,  Me.,  Nov.  30,  1871.  She  was  born  July  16,  1849.  He 
is  a  carpenter  and  resides  in  Manchester,  N.  H. 

CUMMINGS. 
LANGDON  B.  CUMMINGS.     Langdon,  Nathan,  and  Charles  J.  Cum- 


GENEALOGIES  725 

mings  were  brothers.  Langdon  B.,  born  March  13,  1826  ;  married  Sept. 
5,  1861,  Sarah  A.  French,  daughter  of  Sumner  French  of  I/yndeborough. 
She  was  born  Dec.  9,  1844.  He  removed  to  Milford,  N.  H.,  and  died 
April  29,  1887.  Children  :  — 

1.  MARY  H.,  b.  March  n,  1863,  in  I/yndeborough. 

2.  NELLIE  M.,  b.  Jan.  19,  1868,  m.  Fred  N.  Burnham  of  Mil- 

ford,  N.  H.,  Jan.  21,  1890. 

3.  CHARGES  P.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1871. 

4.  MARSHALL  F.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1871. 

5.  ABBIE  B.,  b.  Jan.  25,  1874. 

NATHAN  P.  CUMMINGS,  born  in  Rindge,  N.  H.,  June  29,  1828 ; 
married  July  3,  1851,  Mary  A.  Whitcomb  of  Rindge,  N.  H.  She  was 
born  June  21,  1833.  He  died  Sept.  3,  1883.  Children  :  — 

1.  NETTIE  M.,  m.  Robert  C.  Mason.     (See  Mason  gen.) 

2.  ELIZA  J.,  b.  Feb.  8,   1855,  m-  Myron  E.  Smith  of  Ashby, 

Mass.,  Feb.  22,  1882. 

3.  EMMA  E.,  b.  Feb.  25,  1857,  m.  Alton  Battles  of  Westminster, 

Mass.,  Dec.  25,  1882. 

4.  GEORGE  P.,  b.   March   15,    1859,  m.  Myra  L.   Brackett  of 

Peterboro,  N.  H.,  Jan.  16,  1889. 

5.  LULA  E.,  b.  Oct.  4,  1861,  m.  July  5,  1880,  Frank  O.  Baxter 

of  Boston,  b.  May  13,  1863. 

6.  HENRY  A.,  b.  Jan.  24,  1864. 

7.  ERNEST  J.,  b.  July  7,  1867,  m.  May  Lynch  of  Lynn,  Mass. 

8.  BURTT  L.,  b.  Aug.  15,  1871. 

9.  SADIE  G.,  b.  May  9,  1876. 

ERNEST  J.,  BURTT  L>,  SADIE  G.  were  b.  in  Lyndeborough. 

CHARLES  J.  CUMMINGS  came  to  I/yndeborough  from  Rindge  in 
1861  ;  born  Dec.  9,  1830 ;  married  Nov.  27,  1852,  Sarah  Eliza,  daughter  of 
Nathan  and  Sarah  (Newell)  Moore  of  Sharon.  She  was  born  April  25, 
1834.  Resides  on  the  Chenery  place.  Children  :  — 

1.  WILLIAM  H.,  b.  at  Rindge. 

2.  VIOLA  E.,  b.  at  Sharon,  April  7,  1856,  d.  May  25,  1856. 

3.  MYRA  L.,  b.  at  L/eola,  Wis.,  May  14,  1858,  m.  Oct.  n,  1886, 

Charles  A.  Hibbard  of  Stoneham,  Mass.     He  d.  at  Lynde- 
borough,  July  4,  1891. 

4.  CHARLES  W.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  July  20,  1862,  d.  Oct.  i, 

1862. 

5.  FRANK  E.,  + 

FRANK  E.  CUMMINGS,  son  of  Charles  J.  and  Sarah  E.  (Moore) 
Cuminings,  born  July  24,  1863;  married  Oct.  i,  1885,  Minnie  F.,  daughter 


726  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

of  Brackley  and  Abigail   (Rutherford)  Rose  of  Wilton.     She  was  born 
May  14,  1865.     Child  :  — 

i.  IRWIN  E.,  b.  Aug.  19,  1886. 

CURTIS. 

The  name  Curtis  is  of  English  origin  and  was  first  adopted  by  a  family 
residing  in  Bucks  County,  England.  The  descendants  of  this  family 
spread  into  Essex  and  Lincolnshire  Counties  during  the  reign  of  Edward 
I,  and  also  to  Cambridgeshire  and  Hunts. 

From  this  line  was  one  Israel  Curtis,  born  in  London,  England,  who 
sailed  for  America  in  1725,  bringing  with  him  a  son  also  named  Israel. 
They  settled  in  Middleton,  Mass.,  where  the  younger  Israel  married 
Abigail  -  in  1744.  They  had  eight  children,  some  of  the  descen- 
dants of  whom  still  reside  in  Middleton,  Mass.  EH,  son  of  Israel  and 
Abigail,  born  Jan.  18,  1754,  married  Susanna  Wilkins  and  removed  to 
Reading,  Mass.  They  had  four  children  and  this  family  moved  to 
Lyndborough  May  8,  1796,  and  settled  on  what  has  since  been  known  as 
Beech  Hill,  then  a  part  of  Lyndeborough,  since  annexed  to  Mt.  Vernon. 

ELI  CURTIS,  son  of  Israel  and  Abigail  Curtis,  born  Jan.  18,  1754; 
died  Aug.  18,  1835  ;  married  Susanna  Wilkins.  Children  born  in  Reading, 
Mass.  :  — 


-f 

2.  ASHER,    -j- 

3.  EDITH, 

4.  SUSAN,  m.  John  Hartshorn.     (See  Hartshorn  gen.) 

ELI  CURTIS,  son  of  Eli  and  Susanna  (Wilkins)  Curtis,  born  Jan.  10, 
1784  ;  married  Sarah  Loring  of  New  Boston,  N.  H.  She  was  a  daughter 
of  William  Loring  and  granddaughter  of  John  Loring,  who  sailed  from 
England  under  command  of  Gen.  Wolf  and  fought  at  the  capture  of 
Quebec.  She  died  Nov.  30,  -  .  He  died  Aug.  7,  1876.  Although  Mr. 
Curtis  owned  a  farm  his  chief  occupation  was  lumbering,  sawing  the  logs 
in  his  own  mill  which  was  situated  east  of  where  E.  C.  Curtis  lives  on 
the  brook  running  from  Badger  Pond.  He  also  teamed  to  Boston,  carry- 
ing goods  both  ways  and  making  the  entire  trip  with  oxen.  He  was  firm 
in  his  religious  and  political  beliefs.  A  strong  Republican,  he  always 
considered  it  his  duty  to  be  at  town  meeting  and  cast  his  vote.  A  stanch 
Orthodox  and  member  of  the  Congregational  Church,  with  keen  black 
eyes,  snow-white  hair,  his  presence  at  church  was  noticeable  long  after 
deafness  prevented  his  hearing  a  word  the  preacher  said.  Children,  all 
born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  JOHN  L,.,  b.  July  19,  1817,  d.  April  16,  1834. 

2.  SARAH  A.,  b.  Nov.  15,  1818,  d.  April  30,  1894. 

3.  ELI  C.,  + 

4.  ISRAEL  W.,  + 

5.  WILLIAM,  b.  April  17,  1826,  d.  May  31,  1836. 

6.  BETSEY  A.,  b.  May  5,   1827,  m.  Robert   K.  L/ynch.      (See 

L/ynch  gen.) 


GENEALOGIES  727 

7.  WILLIAM  W.,  + 

8.  ISAIAH  B.,  -f- 

9.  ASHER,  + 

10.  HANNAH  D.,  b.  June  27,  1835,  m«  I*evi  A.  Tyler.     (See 
Tyler  gen.) 

11.  HIRAM  F.,  b.  Oct.  7,  1837,  d.  Mar.  19,  1896. 

12.  OLIVA  J.,  b.  May  23,   1842,  m.  John  Baldwin  of  Wilton, 
N.  H.,  d.  Sept.  19,  1866. 

ELI  CLARK  CURTIS,  son  of  Eli  and  Sarah  (Coring)  [Curtis ;  born 
May  3,  1821 ;  married  Betsey  A.,  daughter  of  Asher  and  Clarissa  (Carkin) 
Curtis,  Nov.  14,  1844.  She  was  born  May  21,  1827.  In  his  boyhood  days 
he  worked  in  his  father's  mill  and  in  the  timber  districts,  excepting  the 
few  weeks  that  was  then  considered  necessary  for  school  purposes.  But, 
nevertheless,  he  improved  the  spare  moments  in  reading  and  study,  and 
being  an  earnest  student,  succeeded  in  gaining  a  good  education.  He 
possessed  great  musical  ability,  and  devoted  much  time  and  money  to 
gaining  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  art.  Probably  no  one  in  the  state 
has  a  better  technical  knowledge  of  the  science  of  music  than  he.  For 
many  years  he  taught  singing  classes  in  adjoining  towns,  driving  there 
and  returning  home  the  same  night  after  a  hard  day's  work  in  the  woods. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Philharmonic  Institute  of  Boston,  and  a  leader 
of  church  choirs  for  many  years. 

He  was  largely  engaged  in  lumbering  operations,  owning  and  running 
a  saw  mill  on  his  farm.  For  the  last  twenty  years  farming  and  raising 
milk  for  the  Boston  market  has  been  his  business.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics  and  a  strong  supporter  of  the  Congregational  church,  of  which  he 
is  a  member  and  a  deacon.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Lafayette  Artillery 
Co.,  serving  as  captain  at  one  time.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War. 
(See  Chap.  X.)  He  was  a  charter  member  of  Pinnacle  Grange,  and  also 
a  charter  member  of  Hillsborough  County  Pomona  Grange.  He  has 
served  on  the  board  of  selectmen,  and  represented  his  town  in  the  legis- 
lature in  1872  and  1873.  His  wife,  Betsey  Ann  Curtis,  is  a  woman  of 
marked  individuality,  and  leaves  an  impress  upon  all  with  whom  she  be- 
comes associated.  With  a  good  musical  education  and  a  magnificent 
voice  she  was  indeed  a  noted  singer  in  her  day.  In  the  social  life  of 
Lyndeborough,  in  the  grange  that  was  dear  to  her  heart,  she  has  been  a 
helper  of  ability  and  influence.  Their  daughters,  Clara  and  S.  Kate,  were 
educated  as  teachers.  Children  :  — 

1.  ISAIAH  B.,  b.  Oct.  10,  1849. 

2.  CLARA  A.,  b.  Aug.  6,   1863,  m.  first,  Everett  A.  Cram  of 

L,yndeborough ;    second,    Samuel  J.,    son  of    James    and 
Nancy  (Morse)  Sheldon  of  Wilton,  N.  H.,  d.  May  19,  1884. 

3.  S.  KATE,  b.  March  4,   1858.    m.   Albert   K.    Swinnington. 

(See  Swinnington  gen.) 

ISRAEL  W.  CURTIS,  son  of  Kli  and  Sarah  fLoring)  Curtis,  born 
Dec.  21,  1823  ;  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Charlotte  (Merrill) 


HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Haggett,  Nov.  28,  1850.     She  was  born  Aug.   16,  1833.     He  removed  to 
Wilton,  N.  H.,  and  died  Oct.  8,  1889.     Children  :  — 

1.  ELI  J.,   b.   Dec.   29,  1851,  m.  first,  Elsie  Daniels;  second, 

Jan.  4,  1886,  Ella,  dau.  of  Nathan  and  Sarah  (Bruce) 
Richardson.  She  was  b.  March  12,  1854,  d.  June  27,  1891. 
He  d.  Aug.  31,  1891. 

2.  CLINTINA  S.,  b.  Dec.  28,  1854,  m.  Dr.  A.  A.  Whitney  of 

Adrian,  Mich. 

3.  HATTIE  L,.,  b.  Dec.  16,  1859,  d.  March  28,  1866. 

4.  NETTIE  C.,  b.  March  n,  1862,  d.  Sept.  13,  1878. 

5.  WALTER  J.,  b.  March  3,  1867. 

WILLIAM  W.  CURTIS,  son  of  Eli  and  Sarah  (Loring)  Curtis,  born 
June  28,  1829;  married  Oct.  23,  1851,  Hannah  D.,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Abigail  (Jones)  Parker.  She  was  born  Dec.  i,  1834.  He  received 
his  education  in  the  schools  of  Lyndeborough,  at  Mont  Vernon  academy 
and  had  private  instruction  by  Rev.  E.  B.  Claggett.  He  taught  school  for 
a  number  of  years,  and  was  superintendent  of  schools  for  seven  years. 
He  then  turned  his  attention  to  farming  and  lumbering.  Always  on  the 
alert  for  business,  he  bought  many  wood  lots  and  had  the  wood  cut  and 
shipped  from  Wilton.  He  also  kept  a  general  store  at  the  "centre  "  for 
a  number  of  years. 

He  packed  and  sealed  the  first  fruit  ever  sold  on  the  market  in  glass 
cans.  They  were  sold  by  J.  W.  Tufts  of  Boston,  pharmacist.  He  was 
the  first  to  ship  a  lading  of  apples  from  this  country  to  England  to  be 
sold  by  auction.  The  undertaking  was  a  success  and  he  followed  the 
business  of  buying  apples  for  twelve  years,  shipping  about  four  hundred 
thousand  barrels.  For  sending  a  most  excellent  package  to  Queen 
Victoria  he  was  made  a  purveyor  to  her  majesty.  The  apples  were 
selected  and  packed  by  Oliver  Perham  of  Lyndeborough.  The  queen 
accepted  the  fruit  and  acknowledged  its  receipt  by  a  letter  written  by 
her  private  secretary  and  sealed  by  her  own  hand.  He  made  a  study  of 
music,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  choir  for  many 
years.  He  was  active  and  energetic  in  all  that  he  undertook  to  do.  He 
was  connected  with  many  business  enterprises.  He  died  at  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  Jan.  24,  1904.  Children  :  — 

1.  ABBIE  F.,    b.   June    10,   1856,    m.   I^uke  Beard  of   Wilton, 

d.  Dec.  23,  1899.     Children :   Elmer,  Gertrude,  Florence. 

2.  CHARLES  P.,  b.  Oct.  4,  1858,  d.  Jan.  23,  1882. 

3.  WILLIS  C.,  b.  June  26,  1860,  m.  Feb.  9,  1891,  Carrie  Trow- 

bridge. 

4.  GEORGE  B.,  b.  Sept.  29,  1862,  d.  Oct.  16,  1862. 

ISAIAH  B.  CURTIS,  son  of  Eli  and  Sarah  (Loring)  Curtis,  born  July 
23,  1831;  married  June  6,  1855,  MaryJ.,  daughter  of  David  and  Bethiah 
(Wilson)  Holt  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Jan.  20,  1833.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

i.  ASHER  B.,  b.  April  8,  1856,  d.  July  19,  1862. 


GENEALOGIES  729 

2.  LIZZIE;  B.,  b.  Jan,  n,  1859,  d.  Sept.  19,  1862. 

3.  IDA  B.,  b.  Sept.  22,  1860,  d.  July  4,  1886.  • 

4.  LAVADE,  b.  June  20,  1863,  d.  Jan.  19,  1884. 

5.  DEI,BERT  W.,  b.  Oct.  6,  1864,  d.  Oct.  24,  1867. 

6.  LIZZIE  G.,  b.  April  3,  1870,  m.   Walter  S.  Tarbell.      (See 

Tarbell  gen.) 

7.  AGNES  C.,  b.  April  5,  1875. 

ASHER  CURTIS,  son  of  Eli  and  Sarah  (Coring)  Curtis,  born  Aug.  9, 
1833;  married  Clara,  daughter  of  Albert  and  Reliance  (Reed)  Farns- 
worth  of  Wilton,  N.  H.,  April  28,  1864.  She  was  born  Feb.  24,  1849.  He 
resides  on  the  Amaziah  Blan chard  place.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 
War.  (See  Chapter  X.)  Children  :  - 

1.  KTTA  J.,  b.  Aug.  25,  1865,  m.  George  P.  Chandler  of  Wil- 

ton,   N.    H.,    Sept.    15,    1885.     Children:    Eva,    Carl   L., 
,         Lora  A.,  Grace  B. 

2.  EDWARD  I,.,   b.  Dec.   8,    1867,  m.   Ella,  dau.  of  John  and 

Martha  (Blodgett)  Hall  of  South  Dudswell,  Canada.  She 
was  b.  March  28,  1867.  They  were  m.  Sept.  13,  1893. 
She  d.  March  4,  1905. 

3.  AUCE  C.,  b.  Nov.  19,  1874,  d.  April  9,  i! 


ASHER  CURTIS,  son  of  Eli  and  Susanna  (Wilkins)  Curtis;  born  July 
14,  1786;  married  Clarissa  A.,  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Betsey  (Duncklee) 
Carkin  of  Lyndeborough,  Dec.  22,  1818.  She  was  born  Nov.  13,1797; 
died  Dec.  8,  1880.  He  lived  on  one  of  the  best  farms  in  Johnson's  Corner. 
He  was  an  extensive  farmer  and  his  wife  an  expert  in  the  converting  of 
wool  into  yarn  and  cloth,  and  flax  into  a  great  variety  of  table  linen. 
This  old-fashioned  way  of  carding,  spinning  and  weaving,  by  which  our 
ancestors  were  clothed,  and  the  skill  and  labor  of  the  mothers  of  those 
days  in  making  their  families  comfortable  is  worthy  of  mention,  for  it  is 
almost  a  "  lost  art." 

Mr.  Curtis  used  to  burn  quantities  of  charcoal  and  carry  it  to  market. 
He  was  an  old-fashioned  Whig  and  Republican  in  politics  and  a  Congre- 
gationalist  in  religious  belief,  and  a  noted  singer  in  his  day.  He  died 
April  21,  1876.  Children  :  — 

1.  KII.BURN  S.,  -f- 

2.  BETSEY  ANN,  b.  May  21,  1827,  m.  Eli  Clark  Curtis. 


S.  CURTIS,  son  of  Asher  and  Clarissa  (Carkin)  Curtis, 
born  July  6,  1821  ;  died  Sept.  5,  1893  ;  married  first,  Z,ucy,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  L,ucy  (Burnham)  Woodward,  November,  1850.  She  was  born 
-  ;  d.  May  19,  1853;  second,  Frances  A.,  daughter  of  David  and 
Ann  (Cochran)  Holt,  Oct.  9,  1861.  She  was  born  Feb.  16,  1840.  He  was 
a  very  active,  energetic  man,  widely  known.  At  one  time  he  was  largely 
interested  in  the  buying  of  wood  lots  and  the  cutting  and  sale  of  wood. 
I/ike  all  the  Curtis  family  he  was  a  great  lover  of  music  and  a  member 
of  the  church  choir  for  years.  He  had  the  misfortune  to  become  almost 


730  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

wholly  blind  the  last  year  or  two  of  his  life.     Children,  all  by  second 
wife :  — 

1.  ALLISON  W.,  b.  Nov.  3.,  1862,  d.  Aug.  29,  1863. 

2.  ANNIE  M.,  b.  Dee.  19,  1864. 

3.  ELTON  G.,  b.  Oct.  26,  1867. 

4.  JOHN  M.,  b.  Sept.  3,  1869,  m.  Rosie  E.,  dau.  of  Jason  and 

Rosie  (Young)  Holt,  Sept.  u,  1894.     Child  :  Frances  A., 
b.  April  5,  1904. 

5.  ALFRED    Iy.,    b.    July   23,    1875.       Educated   at    Harvard 

College. 

DANFORTH. 

EDGAR  A.  DANFORTH,  son  of  Capt.  George  and  Sarah  (Melzer) 
Danforth,  born  May  12,  1846;  married  first,  Oct.  i,  1867,  Susie  A.,  daugh- 
ter of  John  and  Sophia  (Ober)  Marvell  of  Milford.  She  was  born  1847 ; 
died  Aug.  28,  1869  ;  second,  Jennie,  daughter  of  Stephen  and  Caroline 
(Austin)  Clay  of  Lowell,  Mass,  Aug.  13,  1870.  She  was  born  Jan.  10, 
1853;  died  Sept.  3,  1898;  third,  March  9,  1904,  Lizzie  M.,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Eliza  (Kenson)  Eaton,  and  widow  of  Frank  I/ovejoy.  She 
was  born  Nov.  14,  1853,  at  Amherst. 

In  1868  he  owned  and  operated  the  stage  line  from  Francestown  to 
Milford.  He  disposed  of  this  May  i,  1874,  and  in  1875  came  to  Lynde- 
borough  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Boston  &  Lowell  R.  R.  Company 
as  station  agent,  which  position  he  has  held  ever  since.  He  is  the 
present  efficient  town  clerk  and  has  held  that  office  18  years.  He  was  tax 
collector  14  years.  To  all  the  various  duties  of  his  positions  he  brings 
fidelity  and  courtesy. 

DASCOMB. 

JACOB  DASCOMB,  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth  (Farrington)  Das- 
cornb,  born  Aug.  15,  1760;  married  Aug.  n,  1785,  Rachel,  daughter  of 
John  and  Mary  (Ellingwood)  Dale.  She  was  born  July  24,  1762 ;  died 
July  i,  1827.  He  died  July  4,  1827.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution- 
ary army.  In  1809  he  removed  to  Wilton.  While  in  Lyndeborough,  he 
was  for  several  years  town  clerk  and  selectman.  Children  born  at 
Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  RACHEL,    b.   Nov.    15,    1745,  m.    Timothy  Putnam.      (See 

Putnam  gen.) 

2.  SARAH,  b.  Aug.  12,  1787,  m.  October,  1809.  Archelaus  Ful- 

ler.    (See  Fuller  gen. ) 

3.  JACOB,  b.  May  5,  1789,  d.  Dec.  17,  1789. 

4.  CALVIN,  b.  Oct.  29,  1790,  m.  Rachel  Putnam,  July  23,  1820. 

She  d.  Oct.  10,  1856.     He  d.  Oct.  13,  1859. 

5.  BETSEY,  b.  Aug.  14,  1792,  m.  1816,  John  Thurston. 

6.  LUTHER,  b.  March  15,  1795,  d.  Feb.  28,  1797. 

7.  MARY,  b.  June  3,  1797,  m.  Dec.  3,  1835,  Samuel  W.  Dutton 

of  Northfield,  Mass. 


GENEALOGIES  731 

8.  JACOB,  2ND.,  b.  Aug.   13,  1799.     Rem.   to  Andover,  Mass., 

Nov.  30,  1875.     Twice  married. 

9.  lyUTHER,  b.  Dec.  20,  1801. 

10.  JAMES,  b.  June  i,  1805. 

DICKEY. 

DAVID  G.  DICKEY,  son  of  Adam  and  Keziah  (Clement)  Dickey, 
born  Oct.  24,  1836 ;  married  first,  Oct.  16,  1864,  Mary  E.,  daughter  of 
John  J.  and  Abby  (Mudgett)  Balch.  She  was  born  July  17,  1842 ;  died 
March  26,  1900 ;  second,  Aug.  28,  1900,  Mrs.  Nellie  E.  Kenniston  of 
Andover,  Mass.  She  was  born  March  i,  1867.  He  came  to  Lyndebor- 
ough  from  Deering  in  1864.  Was  superintendent  of  the  town  farm  for  a 
number  of  years ;  was  selectman  and  held  other  town  offices ;  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  Child,  by  first  wife  :  — 

i.  NEIL  J.,  b.  Dec.  14,  1871,  d.  Feb.  13,  1883. 

DINSMORE. 

ABRAHAM  DINSMORE  and  Love,  his  wife,  were  evidently  among 
the  earliest  settlers  in  the  territory  of  Lyndeborough  that  was  used  to 
form  a  part  of  Temple.  Abraham,  Abraham,  Jr.,  and  Zebadiah  Dins- 
more  were  Revolutionary  soldiers  and  when  the  alarm  came  from  Ticon- 
deroga  marched  in  company  with  34  others  to  the  front.  Abraham  and 
Zebadiah  were  of  those  who  marched  to  Cambridge  from  Temple  on  the 
alarm  of  the  igth  of  April,  1775,  as  related  in  the  History  of  Temple. 
The  older  children  of  Abraham,  Jr.,  are  recorded  as  born  at  Temple,  but 
he  must  have  removed  to  Lyndeborough  for  children  are  also  recorded 
as  born  there.  Record  of  the  children  of  Abraham  and  Love  Dins- 
more  :  — 

i.  ABRAHAM  I,.,  b.  at  Temple,  Oct.  12,  1777. 
5.  SAMUEL,  b.  at  Temple,  June  24,  1779. 

3.  L,OVE,  b.  at  Temple,  May  26,  1781. 

4.  SARAH,  b.  at  Temple,  March  22,  1783. 

5.  EPHRAIM,  b.  at  L/yndeborough,  March  21,  1785. 

6.  GEORGE,  b.  at  L/yndeborough,  Dec.  21,  1787. 

DOLIJVER. 

CAPT.  JOHN  B.  DOLLIVER  was  born  in  Marblehead,  Mass,  April 
22,  1810.  His  father  was  in  the  U.  S.  Naval  Service  during  the  War  of 
1812.  His  grandfather  came  to  Lyndeborough  about  1775  and  purchased 
a  lot  of  wild  land  of  Jesse  Putnam,  the  deed  bearing  date  November, 
1775.  When  a  lad  of  four  years,  John  came  to  live  with  his  grand- 
parents, and  after  their  death  he  inherited  the  homestead  property.  He 
was  a  large  and  powerfully  built  man,  broad-shouldered  and  strong,  of 
great  endurance,  and  of  great  industry  withal.  He  was  genial  and  fond 
of  company,  enjoying  a  laugh  or  a  joke,  even  if  it  was  at  his  own  ex- 
pense. He  took  great  interest  in  military  matters  and  in  military  exer- 
cises and  was  captain  of  the  Lafayette  Artillery  at  one  time.  He  married 


732  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

first,  Lucetta  P.  Draper  of  Greenfield,  June  3,  1836.  She  was  born  April 
27,  1816 ;  died  April  9,  1852  ;  married  second,  Mrs.  Abbie  E.  Conant  of 
Greenfield,  N.  H.,  Feb.  3,  1853.  She  was  born  July  21,  1819 ;  died  Dec. 
29>  *%97'  He  died  Sept.  30,  1887.  Children,  all  born  in  Lynde- 
borough : — 
By  first  wife  :  — 

1.  lyUCETTA  J.,  b.  March  5,  1837. 

2.  SARAH  R.,  b.  Oct.  9,   1839,  m.  Henry  Holt  of  Greenfield 

3.  BENTON  J.,  b.  Jan.  15,  1841. 

4.  L/YDIA  K.,  b.  Nov.  13,  1843. 

5.  PERSIS  B.,  b.   Nov.   30,    1845,  m.   Frank   Brook  of  Green- 

field, d.  Nov.  28,  1889. 

6.  GEORGIANNA  M.,  born  March  9,  1847,  d.  July  6,  1870. 

7.  WILLIAM    H.,    + 
By  second  wife  :  — 

8.  FRANK  P.,  born  June  24,  1853.     Res.  in  San  Francisco. 

9.  GEORGE  S.,  born  Nov.  20,  1854,  d.  Feb.  5,  1887. 

10.  EDWARD  W.,  -f- 

11.  ABBIE  A.  G.,  b.  July  13,  1858,  m.  Fred  S.  Pickett,  Nov. 

14,  1882,  d.  Feb.  n,  1895. 

12.  SAMUEL  A.,  -|- 

13.  CARRIE  E.,  b.  Nov.   13,    1862,  m.   Warren  C.  Ordway  of 
Francestown,  d.  Nov.  26,  1888. 

14.  L/ouis  E.,  b.  Feb.  24,  1864.     Res.  in  San  Francisco. 

WILLIAM  H.  DOLLIVER,  son  of  John  B.  and  Lucetta  (Draper) 
Dolliver,  born  Dec.  26,  1849;  married  Emma  J.,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  J.  (Putnam)  Blanchard  of  Greenfield.  She  was  born  July  8,  1852. 
Children  born  in  I/yndeborough  :  — 

i.  FLOSSIE  L/.,  b.  Jan.  16,  1879. 
2-  GRACE  M.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1883. 
Two  of  their  children,  both  boys,  d.  young. 

EDWARD  W.  DOLLIVER,  son  of  John  B.  and  Abbie  (Conant)  Dol- 
liver, born  Oct.  i,  1856;  married  Sarah  (Wilson)  Temple  of  Frances- 
town,  March  18,  1877.  She  was  born  March  16,  1856.  He  is  a  black- 
smith and  farmer  and  has  a  residence  and  shop  on  the  Forest  road  near 
the  intersection  of  the  road  to  the  centre.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN  E.,  b.  Feb.  22,  1878,   at   Francestown,  m.  Edith  I. 

Smith,  Nov.  2,  1898.     She  was  b.  March  16,  1879.     Child  : 
Dorothy,  b.  Nov.  19,  1904. 

2.  BESSIE  C.,  b.  Jan.  31,  1884,  at  L/yndeborough. 

3.  LILLIAN  W.,  b.  Oct.  19,  1888,  at  L/yndeborough. 

SAMUEL  A.  DOLLIVER,  son  of  John  B.  and  Abbie  (Conant)  Dol- 
liver, born  Feb.  28,  1860;  married  Jan.  i,  1884,  Carrie  M.,  daughter  of 
Sewell  M.  and  Sarah  F.  (Putnam)  Buck.  She  was  born  Aug.  30,  1866. 


GENEALOGIES  733 

DONOVAN. 

The  Donovan  family  is  a  very  ancient  one,  whether  Irish  or  English 
history  is  to  be  credited.  Its  age  antedates  the  Danish  invasion  of 
England.  We  shall  not  attempt  to  trace  the  current  to  its  source,  how- 
ever, but  shall  give  instead,  a  brief  account  of  Rev.  Mr.  Donovan  and 
of  his  family.  He  was  born,  April  8,  1837,  in  the  parish  of  Myross, 
County  of  Cork,  Ireland,  and  came  to  America  with  his  parents  in  1847. 
He  lived  several  years  in  Nova  Scotia,  then  came  to  Fitchburg,  Mass., 
where  he  went  to  school  a  short  time.  He  went  into  Vermont  in  1857, 
and  began  preparation  for  college;  graduated  at  the  University  of 
Vermont  in  1864,  and  at  The  Newton  Theological  Institution  in  1867  ;  was 
ordained  at  Belchertown,  Mass.,  in  1867,  pastor  there  till  1869.  He  also 
had  one  pastorate  in  Rhode  Island,  two  in  New  York  State,  and  also  two 
in  New  Hampshire,  at  Cornish,  and  at  Lyndeborough  since  1886. 

He  was  married  in  Baldwinsville,  Mass.,  Nov.  28,  1867,  to  Miss  E.  M., 
daughter  of  the  late  Joseph  Nichols,  M.  D.,  of  Springfield,  New  Hamp- 
shire. She  was  born  April  20,  1838.  Child  :  — 

i.  WINFRED  NICHOLS  DONOVAN,  b.  Jan.  24,  1869,  in  Belcher- 
town,  Mass.  He  was  graduated  at  Colby  College  in  1892, 
and  after  teaching  a  short  time  entered  The  Newton  Theo- 
logical Institution,  graduating  in  1898.  He  is  now  assis- 
tant professor  of  Biblical  Interpretation  at  The  Newton 
Theological  Institution,  and  resides  at  Newton  Centre. 
Mr.  Donovan  married,  Dec.  23,  1895,  Miss  Nellie  Stuart, 
born  Oct.  27,  1870,  daughter  of  Francis  W.  Bakeman, 
D.D.,  and  Ellen  (Stuart)  Bakeman.  Children:  Francis 
Bakeman  and  Elizabeth  Nichols. 

DUNCKIvEE. 

The  Duncklee  family  of  Lyndeborough  is  of  Scotch  descent.  The  first 
to  come  to  Lyndeborough,  of  which  any  record  can  be  found,  was 
Hezekiah,  who  came  from  Danvers,  Mass.,  and  settled  in  that  part  of 
Lyndeborough  which  was  afterwards  made  the  town  of  Greenfield.  He 
was  of  the  fourth  generation  from  Elnathan,  who  came  to  America  from 
England  and  settled  in  Dedham,  Mass.,  in  1651.  It  is  not  known  just 
when  he  came  to  Lyndeborough,  but  he  was  a  soldier  in  Capt.  Peter 
Clark's  company  in  1777.  (See  Chapter  X.)  His  wife  was  Mehitable 
White,  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Aaron  Lewis,  also  of  Moses  White  of  Lynde- 
borough. They  were  children  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  White  of  Dedham, 
Mass.  Hezekiah  Duncklee  had  at  least  three  sons  of  record.  He  died 
in  Greenfield,  March  10,  1827.  Children  :  — 

1.  EBENEZER,  -|- 

2.  HEZEKIAH,  -\- 

3.  L/EONARD,    -f- 

EBENEZER  DUNCKLEE,  son  of  Hezekiah  and  Mehitable  (White) 
Duncklee ;  born  Sept.  3,  1781  ;  married  Lucy  Morgan  of  New  Boston. 


734  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

She  was  born  1794;  died  Aug.  19,  1856.     He  died  Dec.  22,  1864.     Reset- 
tled on  a  farm  near  the  Nathan  Richardson  place.     Children :  — 

1.  ISAAC  Iy.,  -+• 

2.  LUCY,  b.  July  25,  1827,  d.  July  29,  1858. 

3.  WILLIAM  R.,  -j- 

ISAAC  L.  DUNCKLEE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Lucy  (Morgan)  Dunck- 
lee;  born  Sept.  21,  1824;  married  first,  June  17,  1852,  Elizabeth  H., 
daughter  of  Williams  and  Hannah  (Lewis)  Woodward,  born  Feb.  13, 
1830;  died  Feb.  7,  1855.  Married  second,  Jan.  8,  1857,  Minerva  H.  Cud- 
worth  of  Greenfield.  She  was  born  Feb.  21,  1826;  died  June  20,  1904. 
Child  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  CHARLES  M.  b.  April  4,  1854,  d.  Oct.  21,  1858. 

Children  by  second  wife  :  — 

2.  L-IZZIE  A,  b.  Dec.  7,  1857,  d.  Sept.  14,  1858. 

3.  CLINTIE  M.,  b.  July3,  1862. 

4.  MINNIE  A.,  b.  May  6,  1865,  d.  June  18,  1867. 

WILLIAM  R.  DUNCKLEE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Lucy  (Morgan) 
Duncklee  ;  born  Oct.  22,  1831;  married  May  4,  1862,  Ursula  J.  Richards 
of  Goffstown,  born  June  29,  1845  >  died  April  15,  1899,  at  Lyndeborough. 
He  died  June  2,  1898.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X.) 
Children  :  — 

1.  WILLIE  A.,  b.  Jan.  n,  1863,  rem.  to  New  York. 

2.  MINNIE  J.,  b.  Feb.   16,   1866,  m.  William   E.  Richardson. 

(See  Richardson  gen.) 

3.  ANDY  U.,  b.  May  14,  1868,  rem.  to  California. 

HEZEKIAH  DUNCKLEE,  son  of  Hezekiah  and  Mehitable  (White) 
Duucklee,  born  Feb.  17,  1784;  married  Feb.  25,  1812,  Anna  Bachelder  of 
Greenfield.  She  was  born  April  2,  1782;  died  Aug.  10,  1857.  He  died 
Nov.  16,  1863.  Children  :  — 

1.  JULIA  ANN,  m.  Sherebiah  Manning.     (See  Manning  gen.) 

2.  JOHN  J.,  b.  May  12,  1817,  m.  Sarah  J.  Page,  Oct.  19,  1843, 

rem.  to  Pennsylvania,  d.  May  13,  1891. 

3.  LAJCY  M.,   b.  Feb.    27,   1819,   d.  Feb.   2,   1888,  m.  Stephen 

Carleton  of  Nashua. 

4.  JOSEPH  FLAVEL,  b.  May  21,  1822,  m.  Julia  M.  Patch,  Nov. 

22,  1857,  rem.  to  Francestown,  d.  April  3,  1894. 

5.  HENRY  H.,  b.  Sept.  23,  1825,  m.  Nov.  22,  1849,  Cornelia  E. 

Whittemore.     He  d.  May  20,  1888. 

LEONARD  DUNCKLEE,  son  of  Hezekiah  and  Mehitabel  (White) 
Duncklee ;  born  Jan.  10,  1794 ;  married  March  28,  1839,  Elizabeth  B., 
daughter  of  Aaron  Lewis,  born  May  2,  1816;  died  Dec.  19,  1896.  He 
died  April  19,  1863.  Child,  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

i.  DANIEL  WEBSTER,  b.  March  10,  1841,  rem.  to  Francestown. 


GENEALOGIES  735 

DUNCKLEE. 

EDWARD  P.  DUNCKLEE,  son  of  John  M.  and  Cynthia  (Center) 
Duncklee;  born  in  Greenfield,  Jan.  21,  1832;  married  Dec.  17,  1857, 
Amanda  O.,  daughter  of  John  M.  Follansbee.  She  was  born  at  Andover, 
Mass.,  March  13,  1837 ;  died  at  Boston  Aug.  18,  1895.  He  came  to  Lynde- 
borough  in  1876  from  Stoneham,  Mass.,  where  he  had  been  extensively 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  shoes.  He  bought  the  Gage  place  on  the 
mountain,  and  remodeled  and  enlarged  the  buildings,  bought  land  and 
established  the  now  well  known  Pinnacle  House,  a  resort  for  summer 
boarders.  Children,  born  at  Stoneham,  Mass.:  — 

1.  EMMA  A.,  b.  June  26,   1859,  m.  Oct.  25,   1876,  Charles  A. 

Moody  of  lyowell,  Mass.     Of  their  children,  one,  Zetta  A., 
was  born  in  L/yndeborough. 

2.  EDWARD  A.,  b.  July  27,  1871. 

DUREN. 

ROBERT  DUREN  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Daniel  Putnam,  and 
lived  where  the  Baptist  parsonage  is.  One  child,  recorded  as  born  at 
Lyndeborough :  — 

i.  OSGOOD  JOHNSON,  b.  May  13,  1829. 

BUTTON. 

The  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Dutton  families  of  Lyndeborough  was 
John  Dutton,  who  came  to  America  in  1630  and  settled  in  Reading,  Mass. 
His  son  Thomas,  with  his  wife  Susanna,  lived  in  Woburn  and  Reading, 
Mass.,  where  their  children,  nine  in  number,  were  born.  Thomas  died 
Jan.  22,  1667,  and  his  wife  died  Aug.  27,  1684.  They  had  a  son,  Thomas, 
who  married  Rebecca  Draper.  By  this  marriage  he  had  five  children. 
Their  son  Thomas  married  Harriet  Burge,  and  thirteen'children  were  the 
result  of  this  marriage,  all  born  in  Billerica,  Mass.  Josiah,  their  fourth 
son,  was  born  Feb.  21,  1716,  and  he  married  Sarah  Parker,  April  6,  1743. 
They  had  eleven  children,  and  were  the  parents  of  Benjamin,  Jacob,  Ezra 
and  William  Dutton,  who  came  to  Lyndeborough  in  the  early  days  of  its 
settlement.  Jacob  and  Ezra  settled  in  that  part  of  the  town  which  was  an- 
nexed to  Francestown  in  1792.  William  settled  on  the  land  now  owned 
by  Sewell  M.  Buck,  and  Benjamin  on  the  Dutton  homestead  farm  north 
of  the  mountain.  Reuben  inherited  the  farm  from  his  father,  Benjamin, 
and  raised  a  large  family  there,  and  then  Benjamin,  son  of  Reuben,  occu- 
pied the  farm.  It  is  abandoned  now,  nothing  but  a  cellar  hole  and  lilac 
bushes  to  mark  the  site.  Jacob  Dutton  married  Rhoda  Dix.  She  died 
in  Francestown  Feb.  6,  1807.  They  had  nine  children.  Five  of  them  are 
recorded  as  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  Jacob,  born  Dec.  20,  1781 ;  Joel,  born 
April  24,  1784;  Sara,  born  Feb.  10,  1786;  Olive,  born  Feb.  5,  1788;  An- 
drew, born  May  21,  1789.  Their  father  died  in  Francestown  Nov.  8,  1803. 

The  four  brothers  who  helped  settle  the  town  were  all  born  in  Notting- 
ham West,  now  Hudson,  and  came  to  Lyndeborough  some  time  previous 
to  1780.  They  served  in  the  Revolutionary  army,  and  their  service  is  de- 
scribed in  another  chapter.  Benjamin  was  here  as  early  as  1769,  for  his 


736  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

name  is  on  a  petition  to  have  Amherst  made  the  Shire  town,  dated  April 
5,  1769.     The  other  three  brothers  probably  came  a  little  later. 

There  is  a  record  of  Asa  Button  and  Phene,  his  wife.  Child  :  Phene, 
born  Feb.  24,  1776. 

BENJAMIN  BUTTON,  son  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Parker)  Button; 
born  April  27,  1746;  married  Sarah  Stiles.  He  died  Sept.  3,  1803.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  BENJAMIN,  b.  July  17,  1770. 

2.  SARAH,  b.  May  15,  1772. 
.3.  REUBEN  S.  + 

4.  JACOB,  b.  Sept.  26,  1776,  d.  Dec.  2,  1779. 

5.  SARAH,  b.  March  19,  1779. 

6.  AMY,  b.  July  24,  1781,  d.  July  6,  1782. 

7.  DEIDAMIA,  b.  April  29,  1784. 

8.  IvOis,  b.  Sept.  10,  1786,  d.  Dec.  i,  1803. 

9.  MOSES,  b.  Mar.  24,  1789. 

REUBEN  S.  BUTTON,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  Button,  born  Aug. 
26,  1774.  He  married  first,  Nancy  Clark ;  second,  I/ydia  Hyde.  He 
lived  on  the  Button  farm  north  of  the  mountain.  Children  by  first 
wife  : 

1.  L,EAFE,  b.  July  22,  1798. 

2.  BENJAMIN,  -|- 

3.  REUBEN,  b.  May  18,  1804,  m.  Arethusa  Evans  of  Peterboro. 

He  d.  at  Milford,  March  8,  1889. 

4.  MYNARD  and  MIANDA  (Twins),  b.  Dec.  2,  1806.     Mynard 

m.  Susan  Stevens  of  Andover,  Mass.  She  was  b.  at  An- 
dover,  March  23,  1814,  d.  at  Ayer,  Mass.,  Dec.  29,  1891. 
Of  their  two  children  Eliza  J.  was  b.  at  Lyndeborough, 
Aug.  18,  1834,  d.  at  Nashua,  July  10,  1849.  Philena  A. 
wasb.  at  Fraucestown,  July  12,  1847,  m.  Charles  W.  Ather- 
ton  of  Greenfield. 

5.  Lois,  b.  Aug.  17,  1809. 

6.  ROXANNA,  b.  April  n,  1813,  m.  John  Balch  of  Francestown. 
Children  by  second  wife  :  — 

7.  SAMUEL,  b.  June  13,  1824.     Rem.  to  the  west. 

8.  WILLIAM,  b.  May  27,  1825.     Rem.  to  the  west. 

BENJAMIN  BUTTON,  son  of  Reuben  and  Nancy  (Clark)  Button, 
born  June  24,  1801  ;  married  Jan.  27,  1835,  Betsey  E.,  daughter  of  Nehe- 

tniah  and (Putnam)  Rand.     She  was  born  Aug.  21,  1814.     He  died 

Oct.  27,  1869.     He  lived  on  the  farm  his  father  owned  in  the  northwest 
part  of    the  town,   nothing    but    the    cellar    hole    to    mark    the    site. 
Children :  — 
i.  ANN  E.,  b.  Jan.  5,  1838,  m.  June  3,  1857,  John  Gage. 


GENEALOGIES  737 

2.  MARY  J.,  b.  July  7,  1839,  m.  Edward  Kidder  of  Wilton. 

3.  BENJAMIN  W.,  b.  April  13,  1847,  d.  March  22,  1866. 

EZRA  BUTTON,  son  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Parker)  Button,  born  Aug. 
,3°)  J755  '.  married  Phebe ;  died  Feb.  4,  1794.  Children  :  — 

1.  RICHARD,  b.  Aug.  n,  1779. 

2.  THOMAS,  b,  Dec.   14,  1783. 

3.  PHEBE,  b.  Aug.  22,  1786. 

4.  MARY,  b.  Sept.  19,  1788. 

5.  ELIZABETH,  b.  May  19,  1791. 

CAPT.  WILLIAM  BUTTON.  Among  the  early  settlers  of  Lynde- 
borough  was  William  Button,  who  was  born  May  23,  1760,  at  Notting- 
ham West.  He  came  from  Westford,  Mass.,  probably.  He  married 
Susanna  Reed  of  that  town.  He  lived  where  Sewell  M.  Buck  now  lives. 
He  died  Oct.  9,  1807,  aged  48  years.  His  wife  died  in  1841,  aged  83  years. 
Their  children  are  all  recorded  as  born  in  Lyndeborough.  He  was  a 
captain  in  the  Continental  Army.  (See  Chapter  VII.)  Children :  — 

1.  REBECCA,  b.  April  20,  1782,  m.  John  Beasom.     (See  Bea- 

som  gen.) 

2.  JOHN,  b.  Jan.  19,  1784,  d.  Jan.  21,  1784. 

3.  WILLIAM,    -f 

4.  HILDRETH,  b.  Sept.   i,    1787,   m.  Sally  Putnam  of  L/ynde- 

borough. 

5.  SALLY,  b.  Oct.  20,  1789,  m. Stearns. 

6.  PERLEY,  b.  July  21,  1792,  m.  Fanny  Wilkins. 

7.  SUSANNA,  b.  Oct.  18,  1795,  m.  Russell  Upton. 

8.  WARREN,  b.  Jan.  i,  1798. 

9.  IvUCiNDA,  d.  unm. 

10.  REED,  b.  April   10,    1803,   m.   first,  Oct.   26,   1828,  Betsey 
Burnap,  m.  second,  Betsey  Wheeler. 

WILLIAM  Button,  son  of  William  and  Susannah  (Reed)  Button, 
born  April  20,  1785  ;  married  Sarah  Beasom.  He  died  April  26,  1828. 
Sarah  (Beasom)  Button  died  in  Michigan,  Jan.  24,  1857.  He  early  re- 
moved to  Michigan,  and  was  in  the  banking  business  there.  His  descen- 
dants live  at  Adrian,  Mich.  Children  :  — 

1.  WILLIAM,  b.  March  8,  1813,  d.  Oct.  30,  1884. 

2.  JANE  P.,  b.  March  7,  1816,  m.  a  Robbins  and  rem.  to  Vine- 

land,  N.  J. 

3.  JOHN  A.,  b.  April,  1817,  d.  Oct.  27,  1861. 

4.  RODNEY  T.,  b.  Sept.  30,  1819,  d.  June  2,  1855. 

5.  HILDRETH,  b.  June  10,  1821,  d.  Nov.  5,  1846. 

6.  SARAH  A.,  b.  July  24,  1824,  d.  April,  1852. 

7.  ANTHONY  T.,  b.  April  22,  1826,  d.  March  22,  1870. 

8.  LUCINDA,  b.  Feb.  26,  1828,  d.  Sept.  23,  1851. 


738  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

EASTMAN. 

GEORGE  W.  EASTMAN,  son  of  Enoch  S.  and  Sarah  E.  (Blanchard) 
Eastman,  born  at  South  Tamworth,  N.  H.,  Jan.  26,  1858  ;  married  Annie 
E.,  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Martha  L,.  Hildrup  Musso.  She  was 
born  at  Lynn,  Mass.  They  were  married  June  29,  1877.  He  came  to 
Lyndeborough  from  Lynn,  Mass.,  in  1893,  and  settled  on  the  Adoniram 
Russell  place.  He  is  a  watchmaker  and  jeweler  by  trade,  and  has  the 
distinction  of  having  the  only  greenhouse  in  Lyndeborough.  Children : — 

1.  MABEL  L,.,  b.  at  L/ynn,  April  15,  1878. 

2.  HERBERT  W.,  b.  at  Lynn,  Aug.   15,  1882. 

3.  CLARENCE  A.,  b.  at  Foxboro,  Mass.,  Aug.   18,  1884. 

4.  HAROLD,  b.  at  Franklin,  Mass.,  Aug.  3,  1886. 

5.  EDITH  G.,  b.  at  Franklin,  April  22,  1888. 

6.  EDGAR  L.,  b.  at  Lynn,  May  10,  1890. 

7.  ROLAND  W.,  b.  at  Lynn,  March  n,  1892. 

8.  ARTHUR  G.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  Nov.  3,  1895. 

EATON. 

WARREN  A.  EATON,  born  at  East  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Dec.  8,  1843; 
married  July  9,  1865,  C.  Annie  Nichols  of  Nova  Scotia.  She  was  born 
July  19,  1841.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Cambridge  in  May,  1886, 
and  bought  the  water  power  known  as  Buttrick's  Mills.  Here  he  oper- 
ated a  saw  and  grist  mill  and  carried  on  a  small  farm  until  October,  1900, 
when  he  removed  to  Somerville,  Mass.  He  early  won  the  esteem  of  the 
people  of  Lyndeborough,  and  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  selectmen. 
Children:  — 

i.  CARL  A.,   b.  Dec.   29,   1880,  d.  in  Lyndeborough,  Feb.  2, 

1894. 

Charles  R.  Carter,  a  nephew  of  Mr.  Eaton,  lived  in  his  family, 
born  Aug.  10,  1878. 

FRANK  H.  EATON,  son  of  George  D.  and  Eliza  (Southwick)  Eaton ; 
born  Feb.  i,  1855;  married  April  10,  1886,  Georgia  Landers  of  Yarmouth, 
N.  S.  She  was  born  March  13,  1856.  He  is  a  brother  of  Warren  A.,  and 
came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Somerville,  Mass.,  in  1884.  He  bought  a 
farm  on  the  Forest  road  above  Joseph  Blanchard's  place,  and  lived  there 
until  1899,  when  he  returned  to  Somerville.  He  was  one  of  the  board  of 
selectmen,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  social  affairs  of  South  Lynde- 
borough. Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  BERTHA  A.,  b.  Oct.  24,  1888. 

2.  CHESTER  E.,  b.  March  28,  1890. 

3.  LEWIS  J.,  b.  Jan.  4,  1892. 

4.  LOTTIE  M.,  b.  April  2,  1895. 

5.  LENA  A.,  b.  Jan.  3,  il 


GENEALOGIES  739 

ELLJNGWOOD. 

SAMUEL  ELLINGWOOD  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Amherst  in 
1810  and  lived  on  a  place  now  owned  by  E.  C.  Curtis  in  the  south  part  of 
the  town.  There  is  a  record  in  the  town  book  of  births  of  Ebenezer,  son 
of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Ellingwood,  born  Dec.  31,  1774.  Joseph  may  have 
been  the  father  of  Samuel,  also.  Jacob,  one  of  the  sons  died  at  the 
town  farm.  One  of  the  daughters  married  Uriah  Cram.  (See  Cram  gen.) 
We  have  no  further  record  of  this  family. 

EMERY. 

ENVILLE  J.  EMERY  was  the  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  at  South 
Lyndeborough  for  a  number  of  years.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  about 
1855  from  Nashua,  N.  H.  Child  :  — 

i.  MADALON,  m.  Albert  Wheeler,  res.  at  East  Jaffrey. 

JOHN  M.  EMERY,  son  of  Jacob  and  Betsey  (March)  Emery ;  born 
July  n,  1829 ;  died  Sept.  6, 1891 ;  married  Ann  M.,  daughter  of  James  and 
Sarah  (Brown)  Bradford,  April  26,  1857.  She  was  born  July  21,  1841. 
John  was  a  brother  of  Enville,  and  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Nashua 
about  the  same  time.  He  was  a  fine  singer  and  taught  singing  school  in 
the  winter  season,  and  his  services  were  in  request  as  a  musician.  He  re- 
sided in  South  Lyndeborough.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  HARLAN  E.,  + 

2.  CLINTIE   A.,    b.  Sept.   13,   1871.     Is  a  teacher  and  res.  at 

Winthrop,  Mass. 

HARLAN  E.  EMERY,  son  of  John  M.  and  Ann  M.  (Bradford)  Emery; 
born  Jan.  14,  1868  ;  married  June  20,  1900,  May  B.,  daughter  of  Hubert  M. 
and  Eliza  A.  (Stephenson)  Potter  of  Lowell,  Mass.  She  was  born  July 
n,  1871.  Child,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

i.  GLADYS  E.,  b.  June  27,  1901. 

MORRIS  M.  EMERY,  son  of  Jacob  and  Betsey  (March)  Emery;  born 
March  23,  1821  ;  married  Lois  Heath  of  Henniker.  She  was  born  Sept. 
13,  1818;  died  Jan.  2,  1887.  He  died  March  n,  1886.  He  was  a  seaman, 
and  during  the  spring  and  summer  months  pursued  his  calling  on  the 
water,  but  generally  spent  his  winters  in  Lyndeborough.  Child,  born  in 
Lyndeborough  :  — 
i.  ALICE,  b.  Feb.  ii. 

EPES.* 

Daniel  Epes  in  the  county  of  Kent,  England,  left  a  widow,  who  mar- 
ried Gov.  Symonds  and  came  to  Ipswich,  Mass.,  bringing  with  her  a  son 
by  her  former  husband  named  Daniel,  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Gov.  Symonds,  by  whom  he  had  a  number  of  children.  One  of  them, 
Daniel,  married  Martha  Boardman  of  Cambridge,  April  17,  1672.  Francis, 
Joseph  and  Benjamin  Epes  were  children  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  (Pres- 
cott)  Epes,  and  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Lyndeborough.  They 
were  of  the  fourth  generation  from  Daniel,  the  immigrant  ancestor. 

*  This  name  is  now  spelled  Epps. 


740  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

FRANCIS  EPES.  The  name  of  Francis  Epes  appears  as  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  Lyndeborough.  He  was  the  second  son  of  Daniel  and 
Hannah  (Prescott)  Epes,  and  settled  north  of  the  mountain.  He  was 
born  Oct.  19,  1740,  and  married  Mary  Frost,  a  daughter  of  Gen.  Frost  of 
Kittery,  Me.  Their  first  child  is  recorded  as  born  July  24,  1768.  He 
was  evidently  much  respected  in  the  town,  and  entrusted  with  much  of 
the  town  business  in  those  early  days.  He  died  in  Francestown  in  1802. 
He  removed  to  that  place  in  1790  and  settled  on  the  old  Fairbanks  place 
south  of  Driscoll  Hill.*  His  wife  died  in  Lyndeborough.  Children, 
born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  July  24,  1768,  m.  Joseph  Kidder  of  Lyndeborough. 

2.  HANNAH,  b.  Jan  n,  1770,  d.  in  Francestown  in  1797. 

3.  SARAH,  b.  April  6,  1772,  m.  Samuel  Stevens  of  Francestown, 

d.  Aug.  8,  1796. 

4.  ELIZABETH,  b.  May  26,   1773,  m.  Israel  Balch  of  Frances- 

town,  d.  Dec.  14,  1846. 

5.  ABIGAIL,  b.  June  23,  1775,  m.  Samuel  Stevens  of  Frances- 

town,  d.  May  17,  1825. 

JOSEPH  EPES,  a  younger  brother  of  Francis,  also  settled  in  Lynde- 
borough. He  was  born  March  24,  1763,  and  married  Elizabeth  Rand  of 
Lyndeborough.  They  lived  at  one  time  on  the  place  now  owned  by  Mr. 
Bailey,  north  of  the  mountain.  He  removed  to  Orleans,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
died  Nov.  22,  1831.  She  died  at  the  same  place  June  24,  1849.  Children, 
born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  JOSEPH,  b.  Aug.  17,  1787. 

2.  ELIZABETH,  b.  April  3,  1791. 

3.  HANNAH,  b.  April  15,  1796. 

4.  LEWIS,  b.  July  17,  1798. 

5.  NEHEMIAH,  b.  April  9,  1801. 

6.  DANIEL,  b.  Oct.  27,  1793. 

There  is  also  a  record  of  Polly  and  Dolly,  twin  daughters  of 
Benjamin  Epes  and  Anna  his  wife,  b.  Nov.  24,  1787.  Henry, 
son  of  the  same,  b.  Aug.  10,  1789. 

FARRINGTON. 

DAVID  FARRINGTON  came  to  Lyndeborough  some  time  previous  to 
1800,  probably  in  1790,  though  the  exact  date  is  not  known.  He  married 
Mary  C.,  daughter  of  Dr.  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Cleaves)  Jones.  She 
was  born  Jan.  20,  1781.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.    Nov.   12,   1800,   m.  Caleb  Leonard   and  rem.  to 

Stockbridge,  Vt. 

2.  ABIGAIL,  b.  March  21,  1803,  m.  Oliver  Bixby.     (See  Bixby 

gen.) 

*  Francestowu  History. 


GENEALOGIES  741 

3.  ELIZA,  b.  Feb.  24,  1807,  m.  Nov.  6,  1828,  Nehetniah  Epps 

of  Francestown. 

4.  HULDAH,  b.  Dec.  1 8,  1811,  m.  Nov.  13,  1839,  Oliver  Bixby. 

(See  Bixby  gen.) 

5.  SARAH,  m.  Royal  Tupper. 

FISH. 

NATHAN  FISH,  born  in  Mason,  Nov.  9,  1771  ;  married  1795,  Hannah 
E.  Russell  of  Wilmington,  Mass.  She  was  born  July  9,  1778.  In  early 
life  he  was  indentured  to  Samuel  Stiles  of  I/yndeborough  and  Susanna 
his  wife  to  dwell  with  them  and  serve  them  until  he  should  reach  the  age 
of  twenty-one  years.  In  return  he  was  to  be  taught  the  "art  and  mys- 
tery of  husbandry."  Among  the  old  papers  which  he  left  is  his  commis- 
sion as  4th  sergeant  in  the  3rd  company  of  the  26th  Regt.,  S.  M.,  signed 
by  Lieut.  Col.  Benj.  Pierce  of  Hillsborough,  the  father  of  Gen.  Franklin 
Pierce,  president  of  the  United  States.  He  was  sworn  in  by  Capt.  Peter 
Clark,  Justice  of  the  Peace.  Children  :  — 

1.  NATHAN,  JR.,  -f- 

2.  NATHANIEL  R.,  -+- 

3.  DANIEL,  b.  May  i,   1800,  m.  Jan.  24,  1822,  Patty,  dau.  of 

Thomas  and  Patty  .(Coburn)  Bradford  of  Lyndeborough. 
She  was  b.  Feb.  7,  1802.  He  d.  April  16,  1886  in  Temple. 

4.  HANNAH,  b.  Sept.  17,  1803,  d.  Jan.  12,  1883. 

5.  ANNA,  b.  Feb.  n,  1805,  d.  Aug.  27,  1884. 

6.  MARY  ANN,  b.  March  27,  1808,  m.  Dec.  29,   1826,  Dr.  Co- 

burn  of  Wilton. 

7.  SARAH  S.,  b.  Oct.  12,  1810,  d.  Oct.  28,  1886. 

8.  RUSSELL,  b.  May  n,  1812,  d.  June  4,  1812. 

9.  JOHN  R.,  b.  Oct.  13,  1814,  d.  May  4,  1846.     He  was  driving 

a  team  down  the  hill  near  Buttrick's  mill  when  one  of  the 
oxen  became  unyoked,  and  in  endeavoring  to  keep  the 
yoke  off  the  ground  he  was  run  over  and  killed. 

10.  NEHEMIAH,  -f- 

11.  MARTHA,  b.  Sept.  6,  1818,  d.  April  15,  1844. 

12.  CAROLINE  M.,  b.  May  8,    1820,  m.  L/evi   H.  Woodward. 
(See  Woodward  gen.) 

NATHAN  FISH,  JR.  Son  of  Nathan  and  Harriet  E.  (Russell)  Fish; 
born  in  Wilton,  Dec.  2,  1795;  married  April  4,  1834,  Sally,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Lucy  (Parker)  Draper,  born  Aug.  30,  1810 ;  died  Feb.  23, 
1856.  He  died  Sept.  27,  1886.  Children  :  — 

1.  RHODA,  m.  Joseph  Blanchard.     (See  Blanchard  gen.) 

2.  NATHAN  A.,  m.  Mary  Young. 

3.  JOSEPH  D. 


742  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

4.  GEORGE  L.  H.,  d.  in  the  army. 

Of  these  children  one,  Rhoda,  was  born  at  Lyndeborough,  the 
other  three  at  Temple. 

NATHANIEL  R.  FISH,  son  of  Nathan  and  Hannah  E.  (Russell) 
Fish;  born  in  Temple,  Nov.  n,  1796;  married  Sept.  19,  1820,  Rebecca 
Palmer  of  Methuen,  Mass.  She  died  Oct.  3,  1882.  He  resided  in  Peter- 
borough for  many  years,  but  died  in  Lyndeborough  Feb.  7,  1889.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  REBECCA,  b.  April  2,  1822,  m.  David  C.  Grant  of  Lyndebor- 

ough.    (See  Grant  gen.) 

2.  ASCENETH,  b.  July  10,  1823,  d.  Oct.  14,  1839. 

3.  ELSEY,  b.  March  24,  1826,  m.  Franklin  H.  Kidder  of  Lynde- 

borough.    (See  Kidder  gen.) 

4.  EDWIN  N.,  b.  Jan.  n,  1828. 

5.  JAMES  G.,  b.  Jan.  2,  1830. 

6.  GEORGE  O.,  b.  Aug.  18,  1832,  d.  May  26,  1873. 

7.  SARAH  E.,  b.  July  13,  1836,  m.  Benjamin  G.  Herrick.     (See 

Herrick  gen.) 

8.  WILLIAM  R.,  b.  Jan.  18,  1839,  m.  Sarah  Raymond  of  Green- 

field, res.  in  Keene.     Children  :  Arthur,  Willie. 

NEHEMIAH  FISH,  son  of  Nathan  and  Hannah  E.  (Russell)  Fish; 
born  Feb.  20,  1817  ;  married  Nov.  n,  1845,  Lydia  Spofford.  She  was  born 
in  Clarendon,  Vt.,  June  18,  1822.  He  died  in  Greenfield  Feb.  6,  1894. 
Children :  — 

1.  HARRIET,  died  young. 

2.  JOHN  I,.,    born   in   I/yndeborough   Jan.    3,    1854 ;    married 

Sept.  5,   1883,  Ida  M.  Newton,  b.  in  Claremont,  Oct.  22, 
1854. 

3.  Ai^ivEN,  b.  in  1856,  d.  in  infancy. 

4.  LYDIA  M.,  b.  March  10,  1862,  m.  John  Flint,  d.  April  19, 

1894. 

FISKE. 

EBENEZER  FISKE  was  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Lydia  (Hobbs) 
Fiske.  He  came  to  L,yndeborough  from  Danvers,  Mass.,  in  1835.  The 
farm  that  he  bought  and  settled  on  was  the  land  that  the  Rev.  Sewall 
Goodrich  chose  as  part  of  his  settlement  and  known  thereafter  as  the 
Goodrich  place.  It  lies  north  of  Badger  Pond,  and  is  now  owned  by 
William  C.  Wilder.  Mr.  Fiske  was  much  respected  for  his  strict  integ- 
rity of  character.  While  taking  great  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  town, 
and  always  fulfilling  the  duties  of  citizenship,  he  never  aspired  to  public 
office,  and  gave  his  whole  time  to  his  business  of  farming.  He  was  a  de- 
voted member  of  and  a  constant  attendant  at  the  Congregational  church. 
Failing  health  compelled  him  to  relinquish  the  active  work  of  the  farm, 


GENEALOGIES  743 

and  in  1882  he  removed  to  Milford,  where  he  died  after  a  short  illness. 
He  was  born  Aug.  18,  1809 ;  married  first,  June  8,  1835,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Simon  and  Frances  (Putnam)  Mudge.  She  was  born  Aug.  22, 
1813;  died  July  6,  1860.  He  married  second,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Wilson, 
widow  of  Griffin  Wilson  of  Nelson.  She  was  born  March  17,  1814.  He 
died  March  30,  1883.  She  died  in  Milford,  Dec.  30,  1893.  Children  by 
first  wife,  all  born  in  I/yndeborough  :  — 

1.  FRANCES,  b.  March  30,   1836,  m.  Levi  P.  Spalding.     (See 

Spalding  gen.) 

2.  lyYDiA  J.,  b.  Dec.  3,  1837,  d.  in  1840. 

3.  HERBERT  A.,  + 

4.  JAMES  O.,  + 

5.  BENJAMIN  M.,  + 

6.  JENNIE  C.,  b.  April  9,   1846,  m.  Jan.  31,   1871,  William  D. 

Deadman  of  Wakefield,  Mass.  Children:  William  F.,  b. 
Aug.  28,  1873  ;  Roy  S.,  b.  Feb.  25,  1879,  d.  Oct.  24,  1885  ; 
Alice  M.,  b.  May  19,  1882. 

7.  JULIA  A.,  b.  May  8,   1848,  m.  March  3,   1880,  Edwin  Stark 

of  Wakefield,  Mass.  Children:  Theodore  F.,  b.  Nov.  14, 
1881,  Edwin  J.,  b.  April  20,  1883,  Helen  F.,  b.  Feb.  24, 
1889. 

8.  WIU.IAM  E.,  + 

9.  ALMIRA  E.,  b.  Aug.  23,  1852,  res.  in  Wakefield,  Mass. 

HERBERT  A.  FISKE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth  (Mudge) 
Fiske,  born  Oct.  18,  1839;  married  Sept.  28,  1876,  Sarah  E.,  daughter  of 
Otis  and  Mary  (Gushing)  Cutler.  She  was  born  Dec.  8,  1848.  He  died 
Feb.  14,  1905.  He  was  for  many  years  the  manager  of  an  extensive  soda 
water  manufactory  in  Boston.  Child  :  — 

i.  MARY  E.,  b.  Aug.  2,  1877. 

JAMES  O.  FISKE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth  (Mudge)  Fiske, 
born  Nov.  21,  1841  ;  married  June,  1869,  Sarah  O.,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Sarah  (Goodrich)  Jones.  She  was  born  Feb.  18,  1846;  died  Dec.  26, 
1894.  He  died  Sept.  8,  1899.  Child :  — 

i.  HARRY  B.,  b.  Dec.  17,  1873. 

BENJAMIN  M.  FISKE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth  (Mudge) 
Fiske,  born  March  5,  1844  ;  married  Dec.  21,  1866,  Sarah  A.  Fletcher  of 
Brighton,  Mass.  She  was  born  Nov.  8,  1842;  died  Jan.  8,  1900;  married 
second,  Feb.  12,  1902,  Sarah  Elizabeth  Willis.  He  removed  to  Brighton 
in  1864  and  entered  the  employ  of  Charles  Dana  in  the  meat  and  pro- 
vision business.  In  1866  he  bought  out  the  business,  and  was  very  suc- 
cessful from  the  start.  He  is  one  of  the  assessors  of  Brighton,  a  direc- 
tor in  the  Market  National  Bank,  a  director  in  the  Brighton  Savings 
Bank  and  a  prominent  and  influential  citizen. 


744  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

WILLIAM  E.  FISKE,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth  (Mudge)  Fiske, 
born  Aug.  22,  1850 ;  married  April  5,  1876,  Phebe  C.,  daughter  of  Otis 
and  Mary  (Gushing)  Cutler.  She  was  born  Aug.  19,  1852.  He  was  col- 
lector for  the  Howe  Sewing  Machine  Co.  five  years  and  in  the  provision 
business  in  Brighton  and  Boston  nine  years.  He  returned  to  the  home- 
stead farm  in  April,  1887,  and  was  farmer  and  produce  dealer  until  1902, 
when  he  removed  to  Wilton.  He  was  a  strong  supporter  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church,  serving  as  clerk  and  treasurer  of  the  society  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  Child  :  — 

i.  AGNES  GUSHING,  b.  Sept.  27,  1878,  m.  George  P.  Bradford. 
(See  Bradford  gen.) 

FRENCH. 

ISAAC  P.  FRENCH,  son  of  David  and  Lydia  (Parker)  French,  born 
Oct.  8,  1790 ;  married  March  26,  1815,  Clarissa,  daughter  of  Capt.  Nathan 
and  Ann  (Remick)  Barnes.  She  was  born  1795.  He  was  a  grandson  of 
Gen.  William  French  and  came  from  good  Revolutionary  stock.  He 
was  born  at  Bedford  and  came  from  that  place  to  Lyndeborough  and 
settled  on  the  Barren  place,  now  owned  by  Frank  B.  Fay.  His  wife  was 
a  sister  of  John  Richardson's  wife  and  also  sister  of  Mrs.  Rodney  C. 
Boutwell.  His  name  appears  often  in  the  records  of  the  town  as  hold- 
ing public  office,  and  he  was  evidently  a  man  of  much  ability.  He  re- 
moved to  Massachusetts  about  1850.  They  had  three  sons  :  — 

1.  DAVID,  b.  Feb.  i,  1817. 

2.  GEORGE  W.,  b.  July  25,  1819. 

3.  CHARLES  P. 

FRENCH. 

SUMNER  FRENCH  was  born  in  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  Jan.  i,  1806.  Came 
to  Lyndeborough  in  1852.  In  1853  he  bought  the  "Woodward"  home- 
stead farm  in  the  north  part  of  the  town.  March  n,  1871,  the  old  brick 
house  was  burned  to  the  ground,  and  there  has  been  no  house  there 
since.  Mr.  French  married  Mary  L.  Rice  of  Uxbridge,  Mass.,  March  10, 
1832.  She  was  born  Sept.  4,  1808;  died  Jan.  8,  1851;  married  second, 
Lucy  Averill  of  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  H.,  Oct.  16,  1851.  She  was  born  Sept. 
21,  1811.  He  removed  to  Francestown  in  1872,  where  he  died  Oct.  14, 
1881.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  MARSHALL  S.,  b.  in  Methuen,  Mass.,  Sept.  12,  1835.     Res. 

in  Melrose,  Mass. 

2.  SARAH   A.,  b.    in   Manchester,  N.    H.,    Dec.    9,   1844,   m. 

L/angdon  B.  Cummings  of  Rindge,  N.  H.    (See  Cummings 
gen.) 

FULLER. 

ANDREW  FULLER  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Middleton,  Mass., 
in  1765.  He  was  a  descendant  of  the  fourth  generation  from  Thomas 
Fuller,  who  came  to  the  colonies  from  England  in  1638.  He  was  born  in 
Middleton,  Mass.,  April  21,  1743.  He  fitted  for  college  and  at  an  early 


GENEALOGIES  745 

age  entered  Dartmouth,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in  1764.  On  com- 
ing to  Lyndeborough  he  commenced  to  teach  school  and  followed  that 
vocation  until  70  years  of  age.  He  was  evidently  a  man  of  varied  ac- 
complishments, for  as  a  surveyor  he  ran  many  of  the  first  lines  through 
the  virgin  forest  of  the  then  sparsely  settled  town.  In  the  controversies 
of  the  times  he  was  much  consulted  for  his  knowledge  of  the  law.  He 
was  a  devout  member  of  the  Congregational  Church  and  while  not  an 
ordained  minister,  he  often  supplied  the  pulpit  and  preached  acceptably 
to  the  people.  He  was  of  slight  physique  and  never  weighed  more  than 
ninety  pounds.  He  wore  knee  buckles  until  the  last,  and  long  after 
they  were  out  of  fashion.  He  was  town  clerk  and  held  other  office  and 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  (See  Chapter  VII.)  He 
married  first,  Mary  Putnam,  who  was  born  March  13,  1748 ;  died  Nov. 
18,  1777;  second,  Hannah  Smith,  who  was  born  Aug.  i,  1749;  died  Sept. 
5,  1824.  He  died  in  1831.  Children  by  first  wife,  all  born  in  Lynde- 
borough  :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  Oct.   17,  1768,  m.  Piam  Herrick.     Rem.  to  Wil- 

ton, N.  H. 

2.  PAMEUA,  b.   March   12,    1770,  m.  Aaron  Kidder.     She  d. 

Dec.  23,  1816. 

3.  MEHITABLE,  b.    Sept.    18,    1771,    m.    Collins   Whittemore. 

Rem.  to  Hancock,  N.  H. 

4.  BENJAMIN,  b.  Feb.  24,  1774,  m.  first, Blanchard ;  sec- 

ond,   Blanchard  (Sisters).     Rem.  to  New  York. 

5.  BETSEY,  b.  Feb.  6,  1776,  m.  David  Kidder. 
Children  by  second  wife,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

6.  SARAH,  b.  Jan.  i,  1780,  m.  Samuel  Davis. 

7.  ARCHILAS,  b.  April  25,  1781,  m.  Sarah  Dascomb.     Rem.  to 

Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

8.  OLIVE,  b.  March  31,  1783,  m.  Rufus  Badger. 

9.  HANNAH,  b.  March  21,  1785,  m.  Osgood  Hutchinson. 

10.  ANDREW,  + 

11.  FANNY,  b.  Aug.   17,  1793,  m.  Moses  Fisher,  Jr.     Rem.  to 
Francestown. 

12.  ANNA,  b.  June  19,  1795,  m.  Jacob  Manning. 

ANDREW  FULLER,  son  of  Andrew  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Fuller, 
born  March  16,  1790;  married  April  29,  1821,  Hannah  M.  Chenery  of 
Watertown,  Mass.  He  died  Feb.  i,  1872.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN  C.,  b.  Oct.  6,  1822,  d.  Oct.  23,  1822. 

2.  HANNAH  M.,  b.  July  30,   1824,  m.   George  C.   Hutchinson 

of  Milford,  d.  Feb.  15,  1856. 

3.  ELIZA,  b.  Dec.  7,  1825,  m.  Charles  Parker.     Rem.  to  Man- 

chester. 

4.  MARY  J.,  b.  Nov.    i,  1827,  m.  Jonas  Merriam  of  Billerica, 

Mass.     Rem.  to  Charlestown,  Mass. 


746  H1STOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

5.  GEORGE  R.  W.,  b.  Nov.  6,  1831,  d.  Nov.  16,  1843. 

6.  WILLIAM  H.,  b.  Jan.  19,  1834,  m.  Addie  Sterling  of  Dor- 

chester, Me.     Rem.  to  Billerica,  Mass. 

7.  MOSES  C.,  -}- 

8.  JOHN  A.,  + 

9.  SARAH  E.,  b.  March  8,  1843,  d.  Dec.  4,  1855. 

MOSES  C.  FULLER,  son  of  Andrew  and  Hannah  (Chenery)  Fuller, 
born  Dec.  19,  1835;  married  first,  Dec.  19,  1860,  Ann  E.  King  of  Milford. 
She  died  Oct.  24,  1888 ;  second,  Oct.  27,  1894,  Mrs.  Cora  A.  Morin  of 
Stoneham,  Mass.  She  was  born  May  6,  1855.  He  lives  on  the  home- 
stead farm,  which  has  belonged  to  the  Fuller  family  since  1765.  He  has 
held  town  office  and  was  in  the  U.  S.  service  during  the  Civil  War.  ( See 
Chapter  X.)  Children  :  — 

1.  ELLA  J.,  b.   Dec.   i,   1862,  m.  Chas.  B.  Smith  of   Wilton. 

Shed.  Feb.  18,  1895.     Two  children  :  Harry,  Irene. 

2.  ANDY  A.,  b.  Jan.  8,  1868,  d.  June  24,  1871. 

3.  CORA  M.,  b.  Dec.  31,  1876,  m.  David  C.  Butterfield  of  New 

Boston,  April  9,  1894.     Two  children:  Andy,  Christine. 

JOHN  A.  FULLER,  son  of  Andrew  and  Hannah  (Chenery)  Fuller, 
born  March  15,  1839;  married  May  21,  1865,  Ella  Wright  of  New  Boston. 
He  died  Dec.  16,  1897.  Child  :  — 

i.  FRED  A. 

FORD. 

JOSEPH  H.  FORD  came  to  Lyndeborough  in  1830  from  Jasper,  N. 
Y.,  born  April  30,  1810;  married  Feb.  7,  1833,  Betsey  A.,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Betsey  (Holt)  Kidder.  She  was  born  March  6,  1814;  died 
Feb.  23,  1887.  He  died  Feb.  14,  1877.  Children,  all  but  Alfred  -T.,  born 
in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  MARY  A.,  b.  Sept.  3,   1833,  m.  March  13,   1853,  Hezekiah 

D.  Davis  of  Shirley,  Mass.     Res.  in  Mason.     Children : 
Franklin,  b.   L,yndeborough,  George, -Fred  S.,  b.   Oct.   7, 
1869,  d.  Dec.  24,  1871. 

2.  ALVIN  J.,  b.  Sept.  2,   1835,  m.  Mary  Marsh  of  Greenfield. 

He  d.  May  12,  1896,  in  New  Ipswich. 

3.  JOSEPH  F.,  b.  July  13,  1837,  d-  Dec.  5,  1837. 

4.  SUSANNA,  b.  July  17,  1840,  m.  John  Gage  of  L/yndeborough. 

(See  Gage  gen.) 

5.  ALFRED  T.,  -|- 

6.  ALMANDA  J.,  born  Jan.  27,  1851,  m.  Albert  Conant.     (See 

Conant  gen.) 

ALFRED  T.  FORD,  son  of  Joseph  H.  and  Betsey  A.  (Kidder)  Ford, 
born  Dec.  10,  1846,  in  Wilton ;  married  Abby,  daughter  of  Peter  and 


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Mary  (Blunt)  Shedd  of  Milford,  Oct.  29,  1887.     She  was  born  Nov.  18, 
1844.     Child :  — 

i.  ROBERT  A.,  (Adopted),  b.  July  21,  1892. 

FOSTER. 

ALBERT  FOSTER,  b.  at  Ashby,  Mass.,  July  30,  1826;  married  Nov. 
25,  1858,  Sarah  A.  Davis  of  Sharon.  She  was  born  June  29,  1834 ;  died 
Nov.  22,  1903.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Brookline  in  the  fall  of 
1889  and  settled  on  the  Otis  Perham  place,  "  Perham  Corner."  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  MADA   E.,    b.   at   Brookline,    Sept.    17,   1866,  m.    Aug.   5, 

1891,  Morton  F.  Hutchinson,  d.  Oct.  26,  1892. 

2.  EMMA  C.,  b.  at  Brookline,  July  29,  1872,  m.  Fred  H.  Tar- 

bell.     (See  Tarbell  gen.) 

GAGE. 

JOHN  GAGE  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  New  Boston  in  1825,  and 
settled  on  the  David  Woodward  place,  where  the  Pinnacle  summer  house 
now  stands.  He  married  April  24,  1817,  Sally  Tinker.  She  died  Aug. 
8,  1859.  He  died  May  n,  1861.  Children  :  — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  at  New  Boston,  June  28,  1818,  d.  May  15,  1849. 

2.  HARRIET,  b.  at  New  Boston,  Feb.  3,  1820,  m.  John  Newell. 

(See  Newell  gen.) 

3.  lyUCY  A.,  b.  at  New  Boston,  March  31,   1822,  d.  March  7. 

1845. 

4.  DAVID,  b.  at  New  Boston,  Feb.  17,  1824,  d.  Feb.  16,  1889. 

5.  RUTH  A.,  b.  at  L,yndeborough,  June  9,  1826,  m.  John  W. 

Burnham.     (See  Burnham  gen.) 

6.  MARY  B.,  b.  at  I^yndeborough,  July  27,  1829,  d.  July  30. 

1847. 

7.  ELIZA  J.,    b.    at   I,yndeborough,    Feb.    24,    1832,   m.   John 

Newell.     (See  Newell  gen.) 

8.  JOSEPH,  -f- 

9.  JOHN,  + 

JOSEPH  GAGE,  son  of  John  and  Sally  (Tinker)  Gage,  born  June  20, 
1834;  married  first,  April  25,  1855,  Harriet  A.  Wyman  of  Manchester. 
She  died  and  he  married  second,  Julia  A.  Buxton  of  Weare.  Children 
born  at  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  PERLEY  R.,  b.  June  29,   1856,  m.  I^aura  E.  Ritzelman  of 

Fort  Wayne,  Ind.     He  was  a  railroad   conductor  and  d. 
Aug.  7,  1889. 

2.  GEORGE  E.     Res.  at  Garrett,  Ind. 

JOHN  GAGE,  son  of  John  and  Sally  (Tinker)    Gage,  born  Sept.  27, 


748  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

1836;  married  first,  Ann  E.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Betsey  E.  (Rand) 
Button,  June  3,  1856.  She  was  born  June  5,  1838 ;  died  Aug.  9,  1862  ; 
second,  Louisa  A.  Follansbee  of  Weare.  Divorced  1884 ;  third,  Phila  M. 
Gustin  of  Manchester,  June  3,  1885.  She  was  born  Jan.  i,  1840.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  ELLA  C.,  b.  at  L,yndeborough,    April  5,    1848,  m.   M.    D. 

McKay. 

2.  VILEDO,  b.  at  Greenfield,  Dec.  13,  1864. 

3.  I,INDLE;Y  V.,  b.  at  Henniker,  May  27,  1869. 

4.  WALDO  C.,  b.  at  Henniker,  April  12,  1877. 

GAGE. 

DAVID  GAGE,  born  in  Merrimack,  Sept.  8,  1795 ;  married  Aug.  12, 
1823,  Betsey,  daughter  of  Daniel  Putnam  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was 
born  Jan.  24,  1800.  He  died  Oct.  3,  1841.  He  went  as  a  missionary  to  the 
Cherokee  and  Choctaw  Indians  in  Wayne  Co.,  Missouri.  He  remained 
there  with  them,  teaching  and  preaching  until  they  were  removed  by  the 
government  to  the  west  of  the  Mississippi  River.  (See  Page  600.) 

JOHN  GAGE,  son  of  David  and  Betsey  (Putnam)  Gage,  born  June  15, 
1836,  in  Wayne  Co.,  Mo. ;  .married  Feb.  24,  1859,  Susan,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Arvilla  (Kidder)  Ford.  She  was  born  July  17,  1840 ;  died 
March  8,  1901.  He  lived  in  Lyndeborough  when  a  young  man,  and  was 
a  member  of  the  Lafayette  Artillery,  with  the  rank  of  captain  and  went 
with  the  company  to  Portsmouth.  He  is  a  mason  by  trade  and  resides 
in  Wilton.  Child  :  — 

i.  WALTER  F.,  b.  Jan,  5,  1866. 

GAGE. 

HORACE  D.  GAGE,  son  of  Stephen  and  Hannah  (Gould)  Gage,  born 
at  Amherst,  Dec.  7,  1851 ;  married  Oct.  12,  1881,  Nancy,  daughter  of 
Farnum  and  Almy  (Leavitt)  Clark.  She  was  born  at  Ainherst,  April  16, 
1859.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  in  1880,  and  bought  the  Charles  Parker 
farm,  North  Lyndeborough,  where  he  now  resides.  Child  :  — 

i.  ALICE;  L,.,  b.  July  n,  1886,  d.  July  27,  1889. 

GOODRICH.* 

William  Goodrich  of  Bury  St.  Edmonds,  County  of  Suffolk,  England, 
was  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Goodrich  family  of  Lyndeborough.  He 
came  to  America  in  1636  and  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass.  He  was  admit- 
ted "  freeman  "  in  1642.  His  homestead  of  five  acres  was  in  or  near 
what  is  now  Mount  Auburn  cemetery.  The  inventory  of  his  estate  is 
dated  April  3,  1647.  His  widow,  Margaret,  married  John  Hull  of  New- 

*In  the  old  records  of  I,yndeborough,  both  town  and  church,  this  name  is  spelled 
Goodridge.  In  the  preceding  chapters  of  this  history  the  old  fashioned  way  of  spelling 
the  name  was  retained  so  far  as  it  related  to  the  Rev.  Sewall.  It  was  probably  about  the 
time  of  Dea.  Benjamin  that  the  spelling  was  changed  to  Goodrich.  For  convenience  the 
modern  spelling  of  the  name  is  used  in  this  genealogy. 


GENEALOGIES  749 

bury,  Mass.,  where  she  removed  with  her  children.  She  died  Feb.  3, 
1683. 

Jeremiah,  son  of  William  and  Margaret,  born  March  6,  1638 ;  married 
Nov.  15,  1660,  Mary  E.  Adams. 

Philip,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Mary  E.  (Adams)  Goodrich,  born  Nov.  23, 
1669;  married  April  16,  1700,  Mehitable  Woodman.  She  was  born  Sept. 
20,  1677  ;  died  Feb.  24,  1755.  He  died  Jan.  16,  1729.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  Lunenburg,  Mass.,  and  built  the  third  house  in  the  place 
in  1724.  He  was  a  deacon  of  the  church  and  was  the  first  person  buried 
in  Lunenburg. 

Benjamin,  son  of  Philip  and  Mehitable  (Woodman)  Goodrich,  born 
Feb.  3,  1701  ;  married  April  8,  1730,  Sarah  Phelps  of  Lancaster,  Mass. 
She  was  born  in  1700;  died  June  19,  1776.  He  died  April  19,  1773. 

REV.  SEWALL,  GOODRICH,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Phelps) 
Goodrich ;  born  in  Lunenburg,  Mass.,  July  7,  1747  ;  m.  Feb.  7,  1769,  Phebe 
Putnam  of  Danvers,  Mass.  She  was  born  Nov.  26,  1752 ;  died  June  23, 1832. 
He  died  March  14,  1809.  He  was  graduated  from  Harvard  College  in  1764. 
Dec.  24,  1767,  the  inhabitants  of  Lyndeborough  voted  to  give  him  a  call 
to  settle  in  town  in  the  work  of  the  ministry.  The  proprietors  of  the 
township  had  previously  voted  the  sum  of  .£33,  6s,  8d.,  annually  for  a 
term  of  five  years  to  encourage  a  minister  to  settle  there,  and  in  addition 
made  a  grant  of  two  hundred  acres  of  land  to  such  person  his  heirs  and 
assigns  forever. 

At  the  meeting,  Dec.  24,  1767,  it  was  voted  to  Mr.  Sewall  Goodrich  for 
his  encouragement  to  settle  in  town  in  the  work  of  the  ministry  the  sum 
of  fifty  pounds,  sterling  money  of  Great  Britain,  twenty-five  pounds  to 
be  paid  within  one  year  from  his  settlement,  the  other  twenty-five  pounds 
within  two  years  from  his  settlement.  It  would  seem  that  they  recon- 
sidered this  offer  and  made  him  another  as  follows  :  — 

"  Voted  to  Mr.  Sewall  Goodrich  forty  Pounds  sterling  money  of  great 
Britain  yearly  for  his  support  in  the  work  of  the  Gospel  ministry  in  this 
town  until  there  shall  be  Seventy  families  in  the  town  and  after  that 
forty  five  Pounds  yearly  until  there  shall  be  one  hundred  families  in 
town,  afterward  fifty  Pounds  annually  said  money  to  be  paid  in  the 
money  as  aforesaid  or  Province  currency  as  equivalent." 

"  They  voted  Jonathan  Cram  Ephraim  Putnam  and  Benjamin  Cram  a 
committee  to  present  their  call."  Mr.  Goodrich  accepted  this  call  on 
condition  that  he  should  be  allowed  to  choose  the  two  hundred  acres 
which  the  "proprietors  "  had  granted,  and  should  have  the  sum  of  about 
one  hundred  and  twenty-eight  dollars  as  as  an  addition  to  his  settlement. 
The  proprietors  complied  with  his  proposal  and  he  selected  the  place 
north  of  Badger  Pond  now  owned  by  William  C.  Wilder.  He  was  or- 
dained Sept.  7,  1768,  and  commenced  the  work  of  his  ministry.  He  was 
married  the  following  year,  and  the  bringing  of  his  wife  to  town  was  evi- 
dently an  interesting  event  for  his  people.  They  came  in  a  two-wheeled 
chaise,  a  vehicle  that  had  hardly  been  seen  in  town  at  that  early  period. 
The  roads  were  very  rough  and  Mr.  Jacob  Wellman  was  decidedly  of  the 
opinion  that  they  would  not  be  able  to  come  through  with  the  carriage, 


750  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

or  at  least  that  the  lady  would  not  have  the  courage  to  ride  in  it.  It  is 
said  that  he  saddled  and  pillioned  his  horse,  hoping,  no  doubt,  that  he 
would  have  the  honor  of  bringing  the  bride  himself.  But  it  was  finally 
decided  that  the  minister  and  his  wife  should  both  keep  their  seats  while 
six  strong  men  followed  behind  to  keep  the  chaise  right  side  up.  Mr. 
Goodrich  was  then  twenty-five  years  of  age  and  his  bride  seventeen. 

In  these  days  of  one  sermon  a  Sunday  of  a  half  or  three-quarter  hour 
length,  it  is  interesting  to  reflect  upon  what  this  young  man  had  to  do. 
He  must  prepare  two  sermons  for  each  Sunday  and  deliver  them  in  a 
church  where  there  was  no  fire  in  winter,  and  each  sermon  was  from  one 
and  one-half  to  two  hours  long.  It  required  courage  and  devotion  to  duty 
to  do  it,  and  it  must  be  said  that  it  aslo  took  courage,  devotion  and  strong 
constitutions  to  sit  through  those  long  sermons  in  a  cold  house  in  winter. 
The  minister  had  a  little  advantage  —  he  could  warm  up  to  his  theme. 

In  addition  to  these  duties  he  was  a  prominent  and  successful  business 
man,  long  one  of  the  proprietors  of  the  town,  and  probably  wrote  and 
witnessed  more  deeds  than  any  other  man  in  town  since  his  day.  It  was 
his  custom  to  commence  the  Sabbath  at  sundown  on  Saturday  night. 
All  labor  and  business  must  be  stopped  as  far  as  possible.  Mrs.  Good- 
rich was  a  busy,  thrifty  housewife,  and  had  a  task  appointed  for  each  of 
her  household.  There  were  no  drones  in  that  hive  during  the  long  sum- 
mer days.  The  busy  wheels  were  kept  flying  by  each  girl  who  was  old 
enough  to  turn  them,  spinning  the  wool  and  flax  for  the  family  use.  But 
at  sundown  Saturday  the  command  was  given  and  all  work  ceased.  He 
continued  to  be  the  pastor  of  the  church  until  his  connection  was  dis- 
solved by  death,  a  pastorate  of  forty-one  years.  His  death  occurred  town 
meeting  day,  and  Dea.  Peter  Clark  announced  the  news  of  his  death. 
The  meeting  voted  unanimously  to  assist  the  bereaved  family  at  the 
funeral,  to  invite  all  the  ministers  of  the  vicinity  to  attend,  and  to  pro- 
vide for  their  entertainment  and  to  pay  all  funeral  charges.  The  com- 
mittee was  Nathan  Wheeler,  Capt.  Peter  Clark,  Dr.  Benjamin  Jones, 
Jacob  Richardson,  Dea.  Aaron  Lewis,  Peter  Clark,  2nd,  and  Samuel 
Houston.  Among  those  charges  was  a  bill  for  ten  gallons  of  genuine 
West  India  rum.  That  was  the  custom  of  that  day.  Children  :  — 

1.  HERITABLE,  b.  Sept.  25,   1770,  m.  Oct.  30,   1788,  Edward 

Spaulding,  d.  July  30,  1838.     (See  Spalding  gen.) 

2.  SARAH,  b.  Jan.  18,  1772,  m.  first,  Dec.  22.  1791,  James  Ord- 

way.  He  was  b.  Sept.  27,  1769,  d.  Sept.  13,  1804.  She  d. 
July  9,  1852.  (See  Ordway  gen.)  M.  second,  Robert 
Christie  of  New  Boston. 

3.  BENJAMIN,  -f- 

4.  Lois,  b.  March  23,  1775,  m.  Dea.  Samuel  Burnap  of  Fitch- 

burg,  Mass.  He  was  b.  May  28,  1801,  d.  Jan.  18,  1842. 
She  d.  May  2,  1847-  Children:  Sewall  G.,  Israel  H., 
Samuel,  Charles  C.  P. 

5.  LUCY,  b.  Jan.  13,  1777. 

6.  SEWALL,  b.  Dec.  30,  1778,  d.  Dec.  7,  1799. 


GENEALOGIES  751 

7.  PHEBE,  b.  Dec.  13,  1780,  m.  June  15,   1807,  John  Mack  of 

Wilton.  He  was  b.  Aug.  7,  1780,  d.  July  16,  1854.  She 
d.  Sept.  1 6,  1815.  Children  :  Andrew  M.,  Sewall  G.,  John, 
Sewall  G.,  2nd,  Benjamin. 

8.  ISRAEL  H.,  -\- 

9.  NATHANIEL,  b.  Dec.  28,  1784,  d.  March  23,  1798. 

10.  K.  PUTNAM,  b.  Feb.  8,  1787. 

n.  PRISCILLA,  b.  Aug.  24,  1789,  m.  June  4,   1815,  Dea.  Wm. 

Jones.     (See  Jones  gen.) 
12.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Nov.  26,  1791,  m,  Jan.  18,  1820,  Asa  Lewis. 

(See  Lewis  gen.) 

DEA.  BENJAMIN  GOODRICH,  son  of  Rev.  Sewall  and  Phebe  (Put- 
nam) Goodrich,  born  July  9,  1773  ;  married  Nov.  4,  1802,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Maj.  Peter  and  Hannah  (Epes)  Clark.  She  was  born  Nov.  19,  1778; 
died  Feb.  16,  1873.  He  died  April  10,  1842.  He  served  as  selectman,  and 
was  deacon  of  the  Congregational  church  for  over  thirty  years.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  JOHN  C.,  + 

2.  SARAH,  b.  Nov.  24,   1805,  m.  Samuel  Jones.     (See  Jones 

gen.) 

3.  LUCY,  b.  Jan.  13,  1808,  m.  Capt.  Peter  Clark.     (See  Clark 

gen.) 

4.  MARGERY  M.,    b.  April   23,    1810,  m.  David   Stiles.     (See 

Stiles  gen.) 

5.  Lois,  b.  Feb.  18,  1812,  d.  July  27,  1840. 

6.  BENJAMIN,  -}- 

7.  SEWALL  P.,  b.  July  22,  1816,  m.  first,  Hannah  B.  McCrillis 

of  Amesbury,  Mass.  She  was  b.  March  i,  1818,  d.  May  9, 
1852.  Children  :  Ella  M.,  Mary  H.;  m.  second,  Nov.  15, 
1855,  Isabelle  L.  Adams  of  Milford,  Mass.  She  was  b. 
July  30,  1830.  Child  :  Jennie  L.  He  d.  Jan.  20,  1888. 

8.  PHEBE  M.,  b.  Dec.  24,  1818,  m.  Oct.  27,  1864,  Dea.  Abram 

Patch  of  Wenham,  Mass.  He  was.  b.  April  3,  1798,  d. 
Aug.  8,  1880,  at  Danvers,  Mass. 

DEA.  JOHN  C.  GOODRICH,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Clark) 
Goodrich,  born  Aug.  15,  1803;  married  Dec.  4.  1833,  Pamela,  daughter  of 
Paul  and  Judith  (Stickney)  Atwood.  She  was  born  Sept.  26,  1803  ;  died 
Dec.  n,  1887.  He  died  Jan.  30,  1882.  He  represented  the  town  in  the 
General  Court  in  1864-1865,  and  was  deacon  in  the  Congregational  church 
thirty-six  years.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN  H.,  -f- 

2.  MARY   P.,    b.    May    i,    1839,    m.    Geo.    H.    Stevens.     (See 

Stevens  gen.) 


752  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

3.  SARAH  M.,  b.  Aug.  7,   1843,  m.  Jan.   10,   1867,  David   E. 
Proctor.     (See  Proctor  gen.) 

JOHN  H.  GOODRICH,  son  of  John  C.  and  Pamela  (Atwood)  Good- 
rich, born  March  28,  1835;  married  Jan.  15,  1874,  Addie  R.,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Susan  (Hobart)  Rowe  of  Boston.  She  was  born  Nov.  6, 
1836.  He  was  the  postmaster  at  North  Lyndeborough  and,  together 
with  his  wife,  held  the  office  44  years,  until  its  discontinuance  June  29, 
1901.  He  represented  the  town  in  the  general  court  in  1879-1880,  justice 
of  the  peace  35  years,  selectman  one  year,  census  enumerator  in  1890, 
master  of  the  grange  in  1896.  Soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chapter 
X.)  Was  a  member  of  the  school  board  for  a  number  of  years,  and  is  a 
useful  and  much  respected  citizen.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN  R.,  b.  Oct.  31,  1874. 

2.  MILLIE  A.,  b.   Sept.  9,   1876,  m.  Oct.   15,   1895,  Louis  A. 

Trow  of  Mt.  Vernon.  He  was  born  Nov.  19,  1873.  Chil- 
dren :  —  Harold  A.,  b.  Jan.  10,  1897  ;  Stuart  A.,  b.  Feb.  2, 
1898;  Amy  I.,  b.  June  26,  1899;  Jesse  E.,  b.  Dec.  27, 
1901. 

3.  JosiE  A.,  b.  Sept.  17,  1878,  d.  Sept.  18,  1878. 

BENJAMIN  GOODRICH,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Clark)  Good- 
rich, born  March  27,  1814;  married  June  20,  1843,  Irene  Wardwell, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Stephen  Wardwell  of  Penobscot,  Me.  She  was  born 
June  24,  1823;  died  July  7,  1870.  He  died  Nov.  27,  1857.  Children  :  — 

1.  SARAH  C.,  b.  at  Eddengton,  Me.,  Sept.  17,  1844,  m.  Jan.  19, 

1878,  Retyre  M.  Couch  of  Warner.  He  was  b.  April  5, 
1839.  Res.  at  Southern  Pines,  N.  C.  Children:  —  Ever- 
ett, Albert,  Saran  and  L,ewellyn. 

2.  Stephen  WARDWELL,,  -(- 

3.  FRANCES  I.,  b.  March  17,   1850,  m.   May  9,   1879,  Samuel 

W.  Pond  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.  He  was  b.  April  i,  1850. 
Children; — Francis  E.,  Irving  J.,  Samuel  B. 

4.  JOHN  A.,  b.  Dec.  i,  1853. 

5.  L/ORENZO  B.,   b.  Nov.   10,   1854,  m-  Jan-  3»  1880,  Mathilda 

Fessenfeld  of  Anahien,  Cal.  She  was  b.  Nov.  2,  1863. 
Res.  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.  Children  :  —  Sarah  F.,  Arthur 
W.,  Norman  P. 

6.  BENJAMIN  ASBURY,  b.   Oct.    5,    1857,    m.    Nov.    30,    1882, 

Julia  A.  Wiggin  of  Bucksport,  Me.  She  was  b.  Aug.  6, 
1858.  Is  a  minister  and  res.  in  Santa  Barbara,  California. 
Child :  — Elaine,  b.  Sept.  14,  1884.  (See  Page  621.) 

DR.  STEPHEN  WARDWELL,  GOODRICH,  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Irene  (Wardwell ;  Goodrich,  born  March  20,  1847  ;  married  May  15,  1873, 
Georgianna  Henderson  of  New  York.  She  was  born  May  ir,  1850. 


GENEALOGIES  753 

Children:  Fred  W.,  Amy  I.,  Edith.  Stephen  W.  Goodrich  enlisted  at 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  March  24,  1862,  in  Co.  F.,  ist  Mass.  Heavy  Artillery 
stationed  at  Arlington  Heights.  They  were  ordered  to  the  front  May, 
1864,  and  assigned  2d.  Brigade  3d.  Division  ad.  Army  Corps.  He  was  in  the 
battles  of  Spottsylvania,  North  Anna  River,  Cold  Harbor  and  Petersburg. 
Was  taken  prisoner  at  Petersburg  and  confined  in  the  Pemberton  at 
Richmond,  also  at  Andersonville  and  other  southern  prisons.  Was 
paroled  at  Savannah,  Dec.  10,  1864.  He  returned  to  duty,  however,  and 
was  at  the  surrender  of  Lee  at  Appomatox,  and  mustered  out  of  the  ser- 
vice Aug.  16,  1865.  He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  J.  Heber  Smith  of 
Boston,  graduated  from  the  Homeopathic  Medical  College,  March,  1871- 
Since  then  practiced  medicine  in  New  York  City. 

ISRAEL  H.  GOODRICH,  son  of  Rev.  Sewall  and  Phebe  (Putnam) 
Goodrich,  born  Jan.  20,  1783 ;  married  first,  April  6,  1809,  Abigail, 
daughter  of  Aaron  and  Sarah  (White)  Lewis.  She  was  born  Jan.  24, 
1787 ;  died  June  30,  1821 ;  second,  June  10,  1823,  Hannah  French,  born 
Feb.  28,  1786;  died  Feb.  9,  1859.  He  died  May  15,  1853.  Children :  — 

1.  A  son  b.  Aug.  14,  1810,  d.  Aug.  22,  1810. 

2.  A  daughter,  b.  Sept.  10,  1811,  d.  Sept.  10,  1811. 

3.  SEWALL,  b.  Oct.  20,  1813,  d.  Jan.  18,  1869. 

4.  ABIGAIL,  b.  April  10,  1816,  d.  May  4,  1840. 

5.  NATHANIEL,  b.  July  30,  1818,  d.  Aug.  28,  1820. 

6.  SARAH,  b.  June  24,  1821,  m.  June  14,  1842,  Jacob  Hildreth. 

She  d.  July  5,  1844.     (See  Hildreth  gen.) 
By  second  wife  :  — 

7.  ANSON,  b.  March  18,  1824,  d.  April  12,  1824. 

8.  ISRAEL  H.,  JR.,  b.  Dec.  28,  1827,  d.  Oct.  6,  1846. 

9.  JAMES,  b.  Aug.  6,  1830,  m.  first,  April  5,  1853, .     She 

was  b.  Dec.  29,  1829,  d.  June  2,  1866;  second,  April  28, 
1868,  Mary  A.  Ross  of  No.  Brookfield,  Mass.  She  was 
b.  July  16,  1835.  Child  :— Charles  B. 

GOULD. 

GEORGE  GOULD,  son  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  (Needham)  Gould, 
born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  in  1706  ;  married  April  20,  1732,  Mary  Giles,  proba- 
bly of  Salem.  She  was  born  in  1710,  and  died  March  2,  1797,  at  Lynde- 
borough.  He  died  in  Lyndeborough,  April  29,  1783.  They  had  eight 
children,  all  born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  of  these  John  and  Daniel  came  to 
Lyndeborough  with  their  father.  George  was  a  descendant  of  Zaccheus 
Gould,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England  some  time  previous  to 
1638.  George  Gould  is  recorded  as  having  bought,  Jan.  25,  1739,  part  of 
home  lot  46  and  lots  74  and  27,  second  division,  making  him  one  of  the 
earliest  settlers  in  Salem-Canada.  In  1768  they  were  living  on  lot  70, 
opposite  where  the  town  house  now  stands,  and  it  is  probable  that  he 
and  his  sons,  John  and  Daniel,  owned  pretty  much  all  of  the  land  that 
is  now  the  farms  of  Fred  A.  Richardson  and  William  H.  Clark. 


754  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

JOHN  GOULD,  son  of  George  and  Mary  (Giles)  Gould,  born  Oct.  6, 
1744;  married  Oct.  31,  1769,  Susanna  (Marsh,  Kidder)  Chase  of  Sutton, 
Mass.  They  had  one  son  recorded  as  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

i.  JOHN,  b.  Dec.  31,  1770. 

MAJ.  DANIEL  GOULD,  son  of  George  and  Mary  (Giles)  Gould,  born 
at  Salem,  Mass.,  Nov.  26,  1749 ;  married  first,  Dorcas  Phelps.  She  was 
born  1749;  died,  April  6,  1797  ;  married  second,  Mary,  daughter  of  Jacob 
Hook  of  Kingston,  N.  H.  He  died  March  5,  1804.  He  owned  the  farm 
now  known  as  the  Richardson  place  at  the  center.  He  kept  a  tavern 
there  for  many  years,  and  all  the  children  were  born  there.  We  have 
no  further  record  of  this  family  except  the  dates  of  births  of  their 
children  :  — 

1.  SUSANNA,  b.  April  17,  1766. 

2.  MEHITABLE,  b.  Feb.  25,  1778. 

3.  EDY,  b.  Dec.  29,  1779. 

4.  JARED,  b.  March.  16,  1782. 

5.  DANIEL,  b.  March  19,  1784. 

6.  GEORGE,  b.  Jan.  22,  1788,  d.  Nov.  17,  1804. 

7.  JACOB  S.,  b.  Aug.  21,  1793. 

GOULD. 

HUMPHRY  N.  GOULD,  son  of  John  and  Ruth  (Nichols)  Gould, 
born  at  Weare,  June  13,  1827;  married  Sept.  20,  1857,  Ellen  R,,  daughter 
of  William  B.  and  Sarah  A.  (Thompson)  Gove,  born  at  Lynn,  Mass., 
Oct.  10,  1837.  He  died  at  Lyndeborough,  Nov.  24,  1901.  He  came  to 
Lyndeborough  from  Weare  and  settled  on  the  Jotham  Hildreth  place  in 
1898.  Child :  — 

i.  CARRIE  M.,  b.  at  Weare,  May  18,  1867,  m.  Nov.  30,  1887, 
Daniel  A.  Johnson,  b.  at  Weare,  February,  1860.  Is  a 
travelling  salesman. 

GRANT. 

JAMES  GRANT,  son  of  John  and  Margaret  (Beasom)  Grant;  born 
Sept.  22,  1790;  married  Nov.  3,  1818,  Naomi,  daughter  of  David  and 
Sarah  (Putnam)  Cram.  He  died  Nov.  24,  1860.  She  was  born  Aug.  21, 
1797  ;  died  April  6,  1860.  Children  :  — 

1.  JAMES  HARVEY,  b.  Feb.  29,  1820,  m.  first,  April  17,  1842, 

Olive  C.  Hill  of  Berwick,  Me.  She  d.  at  Marquande,  Mo., 
Dec.  24,  1877;  m.  second,  Dec.  24,  1878,  Elizabeth  Myers. 
He  d.  at  Jackson,  Mo.,  March  9,  1897.  Children  :  Albert 
Harvey,  b.  at  L,yndeborough  May  23,  1848;  Annie  Frances, 
b.  at  Andover,  Mass.,  Jan.  30,  1859. 

2.  DAVID  CRAM,  -f- 

3.  SARAH  M.,  b.  May  23,  1825,  d.  Aug.  3,  1829. 

4.  WILLIAM  H.,  -f- 


GENEALOGIES  755 

DAVID  C.  GRANT,  son  of  James  and  Naomi  (Cram)  Grant;  born 
June  17,  1823 ;  married  Sept.  30,  1845,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  R. 
and  Rebecca  (Palmer)  Fish  of  Peterborough.  She  was  born  April  2, 
1822  ;  died  Oct.  31,  1896.  He  died  Jan.  24,  1900. 

Probably  no  one  else  had  such  an  abiding  interest  in  the  town  his- 
tory, or  such  a  fund  of  information  in  regard  to  the  people  and  events  of 
the  town  as  he.  He  was  chairman  of  the  history  committee  at  the  time 
of  his  death.  Most  of  his  life  was  spent  in  his  native  town,  as  farmer, 
lumberman  and  carpenter.  From  1860  until  1866,  he  was  largely  engaged 
in  the  pressing  and  shipping  of  hay  and  in  lumbering.  From  1866  until 
1869  he  lived  in  Boston.  In  October,  1869,  he  removed  to  Minnesota,  and 
remained  there  three  years  in  the  lumber  business.  He  returned  to 
Lyndeborough  in  the  spring  of  1873,  and  lived  here  until  his  death.  He 
served  his  town  in  the  board  of  selectmen,  board  of  education,  building 
committees  and  in  other  offices.  He  was  a  ready  debater  and  talker,  and 
was  much  called  for  to  preside  at  public  meetings  and  to  speak  at  town 
celebrations.  From  the  days  of  the  old  Lyndeborough  lyceum  he  was 
prominent  in  everything  that  related  to  the  educational  advancement  of 
the  town.  Children:  — 

1.  ELSIE  M.,    b.  Aug.   24,    1847,   m.  Dana  B.  Sargent.     (See 

Sargent  gen.) 

2.  DAVID  WALTER,  b.  Dec.  24,   1849,  m.  Oct.  29,  1872,  Alice 

E.  Cassidy  of  Boston.  Children:  Fred  T.,  Mabel  A., 
Nellie  E.  Fred  T.,  m.  Nov.  3,  1898,  Olive  H.  Dyer  of 
Marlboro,  Mass. 

3.  JAMES  ARTHUR,  -(- 

JAMES  ARTHUR  GRANT,  son  of  David  C.  and  Rebecca  (Fish) 
Grant;  born  Dec.  20,  1859;  m.  Feb.  19,  1881,  Nellie  F.,  daughter  of  John 
and  Harriet  (Glinds)  Blanchard.  She  was  born  at  Wilton,  June  i,  1862. 
He  lived  for  a  time  on  the  homestead  farm,  and  removed  to  Milford 
in  April,  1901.  Children,  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  CHARLES  K.,  b.  June  28,  1882. 

2.  GEORGE  L/.,  b.  May  2,  1884. 

3.  PERLEY  A.,  b.  July  19,  1891. 

4.  HAROLD  W.,  b.  Aug  12,  1895. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  GRANT,  son  of  James  and  Naomi  (Cram)  Grant; 
born  Dec.  23,  1829;  married  Jan.  4,  1855,  Martha,  daughter  of  David  and 
Mary  (Bickford)  McCaine  of  Francestown.  She  was  born  Dec.  15,  1832. 
He  died  Aug.  8,  1901,  at  Sandstone,  Minn.  His  early  education  was  de- 
rived from  the  district  schools,  and  as  he  says,  "  from  such  books  as  he 
could  borrow."  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  engaged  himself  as  an  appren- 
tice to  the  harness  making  trade,  but  after  serving  for  nearly  two  years 
he  determined  to  become  a  lawyer.  He  attended  school  at  Nashua,  at 
the  academy  at  Hancock,  at  the  Yates  academy  at  Orleans,  N.  Y.,  and  re- 
ceived private  instruction  from  the  Rev.  Mr.  Claggett,  at  Lyndeborough, 
then  taught  school  two  winters.  In  1852  he  entered  the  law  office  of 
Stephen  P.  Crosby,  Esq.,  at  Fraucestowu,  and  remained  a  few  months. 


756  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

After  recovering  from  an  attack  of  typhoid  fever  he  entered  the  office  of 
Samuel  M.  Wilcox  of  Francestown,  where  he  remained  until  1853.  He 
then  removed  to  Manchester,  and  entered  the  law  office  of  Benjamin  F. 
Ayer,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Hillsborough  Co.  in  1854.  He  was 
a  deputy  sheriff  in  1853,  and  was  the  representative  to  the  General  Court 
from  Lyndeborough  in  1853  and  1854.  He  opened  a  law  office  in  Wilton 
in  1854  and  remained  there  until  1859,  when  he  removed  to  St.  Paul, 
Minn.,  where  he  resided  until  his  death.  In  1868  he  retired  from  the 
practice  of  law  and  devoted  his  time  to  private  business. 

In  the  West  he  did  not  seek  political  preferment,  but  was  the  candi- 
date pf  his  party  for  office  with,  as  he  says,  "  no  hope  of  election."  He 
has  received  high  honors  in  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  was  for  two 
years  the  registrar  of  the  Minnesota  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution.  He  was  also  a  life  member  of  the  Minnesota  Historical 
Society.  Child :  — 

i.  WILLIAM  H.,  b.  Dec.  2,  1857. 

HACKKTT. 

CHARLES  HACKETT  lived  in  that  part  of  Lyndeborough,  now 
Greenfield,  where  the  John  Fletcher  place  is  situated.  He  was  a  civil 
engineer  and  removed  to  Maine.  One  child,  at  least,  was  born  in  Lynde- 
borough,  Ephraim,  born  July  6,  1791.  Charles  Hackett  married  Susanna 
Burnham  of  Lyndeborough  in  November,  1789.  She  was  probably  a 
daughter  of  Stephen  Burnham,  who  settled  in  that  part  of  the  town. 

EPHRAIM  HACKETT,  son  of  Charles  and  Susanna  (Burnham) 
Hackett;  born  July  6,  1791;  married  Nov.  21,  1811,  Lois,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Lois  (Kidder)  Butler.  She  was  born  April  29,  1787.  He 
removed  from  Greenfield  to  Lempster,  and  lived  there  for  a  number  of 
years,  coming  from  there  to  Lyndeborough  about  1828.  He  died  in 
Lyndeborough.  The  three  older  children  were  born  in  Greenfield,  five 
in  Lempster  and  the  two  younger  in  Lyndeborough.  Children  :  — 

1.  SUSAN,  b.  Oct.  25,  1812,  d.  Dec.  17,  1829. 

2.  HANNAH  BUTLER,  b.  Feb.  17,  1814,  m.  June  7,  1841,  Jacob 

Wright  of  Woburn,  Mass. 

3.  L/ois  MARIA,  b.  Nov.  21,  1815,  m.  Sept.  2,   1841,  William 

Jewett. 

4.  L/UCY  ALMIRA,  b.  Feb.  13,  1819,  m.  April  4,   1844,  L/uther 

Cram.     (See  Cram  gen.) 

5.  TRYPHENA  PUTMAN,  b.   Oct.  18,    1820,   m.  Oct.  24,   1844, 

Abijah  Thompson  of  Woburn,  Mass. 

6.  EPHRAIM,  b.  April  12,  1822,  m.  1852,  Harriet  G.  Pillsbury. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  22nd  Mass.  Regt.  in  the  Civil 
War,  and  died  in  Thomasville,  Ga.,  Feb.  25,  1887. 

7.  RACHEL  ROXANNA,   b.   Jan.   25,    1824,   m.    May   23,  1844, 

Daniel  R.  Marshall. 


GENEALOGIES  757 

8.  SARAH  SOPHRONIA,  b.  May  18,  1825,  m.  Sept.  9,  1848,  Ed- 

ward C.  Thompson  of  Woburn,  Mass. 

9.  WILBUR  FISKE,  b.  May  3,  1830. 

10.  CHARLES  WESLEY,  -f- 

CHARLES  WESLEY  HACKETT,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Lois  (Butler) 
Hackett,  born  July  23,  1831  ;  married  Dec.  12,  1853,  Myra  J.  Holt  of 
Fitchburg,  Mass.  He  died  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  March  21,  1903.  He  was 
a  captain  in  the  loth  Regt.  Minn.  Vol.  In  the  summer  of  1862  about 
forty-five  men  from  the  farming  district  adjacent  to  the  town  of  Lake 
City,  Minn.,  where  he  was  then  living,  came  to  Mr.  Hackett  and  offered 
to  enlist  if  he  would  serve  as  their  captain  which  he  consented  to  do. 
On  the  very  day  of  the  Sioux  Indian  outbreak,  Aug.  18,  1862,  he  was 
taking  these  men  to  St.  Paul  to  be  sworn  into  service.  As  a  consequence 
of  this  massacre  Capt.  Hackett's  company  was  put  into  immediate  ser- 
vice on  the  frontier.  In  1863,  in  command  of  his  company,  he  marched 
with  the  loth  Regiment  against  the  Sioux  Indians,  with  the  column 
under  Gen.  Sibley  to  the  Missouri  river  and  was  in  the  various  actions  of 
that  arduous  expedition.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion  and 
was  among  the  older  settlers  of  the  state  of  Minnesota.  His  character 
is  summed  up  best  perhaps  in  the  resolutions  passed  by  the  St. 
Paul  Chamber  of  Commerce,  of  which  he  was  a  member.  "  During  his 
entire  life  he  was  a  citizen  without  reproach,  and  his  character  and  repu- 
tation for  uprightness  and  integrity  in  all  his  dealings  was  as  firm  and 
unyielding  as  is  the  granite  in  the  mountains  of  his  native  state.  He  was 
a  gallant  soldier,  who  did  not  hesitate  to  show  his  patriotism  by  his 
works.  He  discharged  every  duty  devolving  upon  him  in  peace  and  in 
war,  as  citizen,  soldier,  merchant  and  neighbor  without  hesitation  and 
without  stain  or  dishonor." 

HADL,EY. 

JOSHUA  HADLEY  settled  on  the  farm  owned  by  the  late  Levi  P. 
Hadley,  on  the  mountain.  It  is  probable  that  he  bought  it  as  wild  land 
and  made  the  first  clearing  there.  The  land  has  been  in  the  possession 
of  the  Hadley  family  ever  since.  Joshua  Hadley  died  March  8,  1802. 
Mary,  his  wife,  died  May  n,  1802.  Little  can  be  learned  about  him,  but 
in  the  town  records  of  births  the  following  appears  :  — 

1.  JUDAH    (probably  Judith),  dau.  of  Joshua  and  Mary  Had- 

ley, b.  Dec.  4,  1762. 

2.  JOSHUA,  son  of  do.  b.  Aug.  22,  1764.+ 

3.  ELIZABETH,  dau.  of  do.  b.  March  22,  1766. 

4.  CHASE,  son  of  do.  b.  June  29,  1769.-!- 

5.  HUMPHREY,  son  of  do.  b.  Feb.  10,  1771. 

JOSHUA  HADLEY,  son  of  Joshua  and  Mary  Hadley,  born  Aug.  22, 
1764;  married  Betsey  (Williams)  Giddings,  b.  1768;  died  March  8,  1854. 
He  died  Dec.  19,  1847.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  NANCY,  b.  July  23,  1788. 

2.  WILLIAM,  b.  April  19,  1790,  d.  May  5,  1790. 


758  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

3.  FANNY,  b.  Oct.  30,  1791,  d.  March  15,  1792. 

4.  MARK,  -f- 

5.  IRA,  b.  Sept.  21,  1795,  d.  Jan.  n,  1849. 

6.  CHARGES,  b.  Feb.  12,  1798,  d.  Sept.  22,  1825. 

7.  ALLEN,  b.  April  2,  1800,  d.  Sept.  16,  1802. 

8.  ALFRED,  b.  Sept.  19,  1802.     Rem.  to  Jasper,  N.  Y. 

9.  JENNISON,  b.  Oct.  15,  1805,  d.  Oct.  21,  1805. 

10.  BENJAMIN  F.,  b.  July  23,  1807. 

11.  ETHAN  A.,  b.  Nov.  13,  1809. 

MARK  HADLEY,  son  of  Joshua  and  Betsey  (Giddings)  Hadley,  born 
April  19,  1793  ;  married  first,  Elizabeth  Herrick  of  Greenfield.  She  died 
Oct.  9,  1832.  He  died  March  26,  1858;  second,  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Eben  and  Esther  (Holt)  Pearsons  Nov.  10,  1844.  She  was  born  in  Wil- 
ton, Aug.  16,  1800;  died  June  26,  1879.  Children:  — 

1.  WlLKES    H.,    + 

2.  ELIZABETH  A.,  m.  Eli  Jeffs  of  Wilton. 

3.  NANCY  E-,  m.  Moses  C.  Burnham  of  Milford. 

WILKES  H.  HADLEY,  born  May  4,  1821  ;  died  Feb.  14,  1900 ;  mar- 
ried Betsey  F.  Richardson  of  Wilton,  April  15,  1847.  She'was  born  Sept. 
13,  1823 ;  died  Oct.  29,  1899.  Children  :  — 

1.  ELIZABETH  B.,  b.   May  29,  1848,  m.   Henry  E.   Martin  of 

Greenfield,  Sept.   n,    1869.     Child:  —  Minnie  E.,  b.  Jan. 
23,  1871. 

2.  RUTH  A.,  b.  Sept.  17,  1850,  m.  Joseph  F.  Avery  of  Temple, 

Dec.  25,  1871,  d.  March  17,  1883. 

3.  JOHN  F.,  -f 

4.  MAY  B.,  b.  Aug  17,  1865. 

JOHN  F.    HADLEY,   b.  June   26,    1854;    married   Emogen   Heald   of 
Temple,  N.  H.,  May  18,  1876.     Resides  in  Peterboro,  N.  H.     Child  :  — 
i.  FRANK  H.,  b.  May  2,  1877. 

CHASE  HADLEY,  b.  June  29,  1769 ;  married  Hannah  Smith  of  Pep- 
perell,  Mass.,  March  24,  1796.  She  was  born  March  22,  1772,  and  died 
Oct.  31,  1869.  He  died  June  26,  1851.  Children,  all  born  in  Lynde- 
borough  :  — 

1.  DANIEL,  b.  Jan.  7,  1797,  d.  March  29,  1798. 

2.  FRANKLIN,  + 

3.  HANNAH,  b.  Feb.  n,  1801,  d.  July  26,  1820. 

4.  SIDNEY,  b.  March  21,  1803.     Rem.  to  New  York. 

5.  ISRAEL  G.,  b.  Jan.  27,  1805.     Rem.  to  New  York. 

6.  WILLIAM,  b.  April  3,  1807.     Rem.  to  the  west. 

7.  MARY  C.,  b.  Feb.  21,  1809.     Rem.  to  New  York. 

8.  ALBA,  b.  Nov.  27,  1811.     Rem.  to  New  York. 


GENEALOGIES  759 

9.  RICHARD  C.,  b.  April  3,  1816,  d.  March  31,  1817. 

FRANKLIN  HADI/EY,  born  Dec.  15,  1798  ;  married  Mary  Spaulding 
of  Lyndeborough,  Sept.  25,  1828.  She  was  born  Dec.  15,  1798,  and  died 
April  28,  1881.  He  died  July  15,  1871.  Children,  all  born  in  Lynde- 
borough  :  — 

1.  JOANN,  b.  June  20,  1831,  m.  Stephen  D.   Holt  of  Frances- 

town,  Nov.  29,  1849. 

2.  LEVI  P.,  + 


LEVI  P.  HADLEY,  son  of  Franklin  and  Mary  (Spaulding)  Hadley, 
was  born  April  10,  1837.  He  has  held  various  town  offices  and  in  1901 
was  town  treasurer.  He  owned  the  homestead  farm  on  the  mountain) 
but  for  a  time  resided  at  South  Lyndeborough  village,  having  bought  the 
old  Tarbell  tavern  stand.  He  married  Minerva  L.  Stevens  of  Frances- 
town.  She  was  born  Feb.  14,  1845.  He  died  Dec.  28,  1902.  Children, 
all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  PRANK  P.,  b.  March.  20,  1868,  d.  Aug.  13,  1897. 

2.  DANA  P.,  b.  July  5,  1869,  m.  Sarah  E.  Edwards  of  Temple, 

June  7,  1898. 

3.  GEORGE  W.,  Sept.  18,  1873,  m.  Minnie  E.  Stacy  of  L,ynde- 

borough,  April  26,  1899. 

4.  LEVI  W.,  b.  Dec.  28,  1874. 

5.  ETHEL  M.,  b.  March  n,  1879. 

6.  WINFIELD  S.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1883. 

RAGGETT. 

JOHN  HAGGETT,  born  1766.  He  was  a  blacksmith  by  trade  and  a 
farmer  as  well.  He  married  Annis  Searle  and  lived  on  the  farm  in  John- 
son's Corner  since  known  as  the  Haggett  place,  now  owned  by  E.  C. 
Curtis.  She  died  March  15,  1855,  aged  eighty-seven  years  ;  he  died  Jan. 
26,  1835,  aged  sixty-nine.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,   b.  Jan  26,   1790,  d.   Nov.  7,   1820,  m.  Dec.  4,  1817, 

Charlotte  Merrill  of  Portland,  Me. 

2.  AMOS,  b.  Aug.  18,  1791. 

3.  RACHEL,  b.  May  28,  1793,  m.  Simeon  McGilvrey  of  Merri- 

mac  June  n,  1814. 

4.  WILLIAM,  b.  March  7,  1796. 

5.  JOSEPH,  + 

6.  SALLY,  b.  June  17,  1803. 

7.  ELIZA,  b.  Sept.  25,  1805. 

8.  ANNIS,  b.  Mar.  18,  1808. 

JOSEPH  HAGGETT,  son  of  John  and  Anuis  (Searle)  Haggett;  born 
in  Lyndeborough  Dec.  19,  1800;  married  Oct.  4,  1824,  Mrs.  Charlotte 
(Merrill)  Haggett,  born  Jan.  22,  1800  ;  died  April  19,  1884.  She  was  of 


760  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Portland,  Me.  He  died  Feb.  14,  1884.  He  lived  most  of  his  life  in  Lynde- 
borough,  but  the  infirmities  of  age  caused  him  to  abandon  the  farm  and 
seek  a  village  life  in  Wilton,  where  he  died.  He  was  quiet  and  retiring 
in  disposition  and  much  respected  by  his  fellow  townsmen.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN  M.,  b.  Sept.  30,  1827,  m.  Nov.  n,  1851,  Samantha  A. 

Colby.     She  d.  April  26,  1884. 

2.  MARY  ANN,  b.  July  n,  1829,  m.  Nov.  u,   1851,  Dr.  D.  C. 

Hadley.     He  d.  Feb.  1859. 

3.  HARRIET,  b.  March  27,   1831,  m.  Oct.  3,   1856,  George  D. 

Ivivermore.     He  d.  Oct.,  1859  ;  she  d.  Dec.  21,  1859. 

4.  SARAH,  b.  Aug.  16,  1833,  m.  Nov.  28,  1850,  Israel  W.  Cur- 

tis.    (See  Curtis  gen.) 

5.  JENNIE  C.,  b.  July  26,  1835,  m.  May,  1867,  John  Upton.   He 

d.  July,  1892;  she  d.'  Dec.,  1895. 

6.  JULIETT,  b.  Nov.  30,  1840,  m.  July,  1867,  George  H.  Jones. 

HARDY. 

ELIPHALET  J.  HARDY,  son  of  Isaac  and  Polly  (Jennings)  Hardy ; 
born  in  North  Anson,  Me.,  June  3,  1829;  married  April  3,  1860,  Sabrina, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Gould)  Jennings  of  Farmington,  Me. 
She  was  born  March  17,  1832.  He  d.  March  2,  1904.  He  came  to  Lynde- 
borough  from  Colorado  in  1896,  and  bought  the  farm  where  Samuel  N. 
Hartshorn  lived.  Children  :  — 

1.  HANNABAL,  b.  Dec.  26,  1860. 

2.  OWEN  K.,  + 

3.  ELIZABETH  B.,  b.  July  13,  1866,  m.  Dec.  25,   1892,  Elbert 

Barrow  of  London,  Col.  He  was  born  Jan.  19,  1857.  Chil- 
dren: Owen  E.,  b.  Sept.  18,  1893;  Elberta,  b.  Sept.  9, 
1897. 

4.  ALBERT  J.,  b.  March  16,   1869,  m.  Feb.,  5,  1894,  Carrie  M. 

Clarkston.     Child:  Homer  C.,  b.  June  8,  1901. 

REV.  OWEN  E.  HARDY,  son  of  Eliphalet  and  Sabrina  (Jennings) 
Hardy ;  born  July  13,  1862 ;  married  June  28,  1894,  Eva  B.,  daughter  of 
Walter  and  Azubah  (Davis)  Bates  of  Alexandria,  S.  D.  She  was  born 
Sept.  24,  1868.  (For  biographical  sketch  see  p.  305.)  Child  :  — 

i.  AMY,  b.  at  L,yndeborough,  March  21,  1895. 

HARRIS. 

OLIVER  HARRIS  was  born  in  Abington,  Mass.,  Aug.  23,  1791  ;  died 
Sept.  20,  1870 ;  married  Sally  Savage  of  Francestown  Feb.  3,  1835.  She 
was  born  March  2,  1779  '•>  died  Sept.  19,  1867.  Lived  on  the  Brown  place, 
North  Lyndeborough.  Children  :  — 

i.  NATHAN  S.,  + 


GENEALOGIES  761 

2.  SARAH  E.,  b.  in  Francestown,  Aug.  3,   1840,  m.  Mark  E. 
Morse.     (See  Morse  gen.) 

NATHAN  S.  HARRIS  was  born  in  Francestown  June  17,  1836;  mar- 
ried Martha  A.  Trafton  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  Aug.  9,  1856.  She  was 
born  Jan.  8,  1836;  died  Oct.  24,  1857.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War 
and  was  drowned  in  the  Mississippi  River,  Aug.  6,  1863.  (See  Chap.  X.) 
Child  :  -f 

i.  GEORGE  T.,  b.  in  Rye,  N.  H.,  March  n,  1857. 

HARTSHORN. 

JOHN  HARTSHORN  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Lyndeborough. 
He  came  from  Reading,  Mass.,  some  time  previous  to  1785  ;  the  exact 
date  is  not  known.  He  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Everett  E. 
I/owe  in  "Per  ham  Corner";  he  married  Sarah  Bach  elder,  probably  of 
Reading,  Mass.,  April  n,  1782.  She  was  born  June  22,  1763;  died  Jan. 
1843.  He  was  born  March  7,  1756,  and  died  March  26,  1805. 

But  little  can  be  learned  of  the  early  life  of  Mr.  Hartshorn.  He  and 
his  wife  probably  suffered  the  privations  of  those  early  times,  and  like 
most  of  the  sturdy  pioneers  was  strong  and  energetic.  It  is  related  of 
his  wife  that  during  some  absence  of  her  husband  the  cow  wandered 
away  into  the  almost  unbroken  forest  and  she  started  off  to  find  it. 
Hunting  until  after  dark  she  became  lost  herself  and,  managing  to  climb 
a  large  boulder  to  be  out  of  the  way  of  the  wolves,  she  prepared  to  spend 
the  night  there,  when  to  her  great  joy  she  saw  the  light  from  the  open 
fire  in  her  home,  the  door  having  been  left  open.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  b.  Feb.  14,  1784,  in  Reading,  Mass.,  m.  first,  Susanna, 

dau.  of  Eli  and  Susanna  (Wilkins)  Curtis.  She  was  b.  in 
Reading,  Mass.;  m.  second,  Mehitable  Carkin  of  I/ynde- 
borough.  He  appears  to  have  removed  from  I,yndebor- 
ongh  soon  after  his  marriage,  for  the  older  children  were 
b.  in  Hancock,  Vt.,  whence  he  removed  to  Mont  Vernon. 
Children:  Curtis,  Susan,  Mary  O.,  Serepta  J.,  John  H. 
Serepta  J.  was  b.  in  I^yndeborough  and  m.  Rodney  K. 
Hutchinson  of  Milford. 

2.  JONATHAN,  m.  Alice  Odell  of  Mt.  Vernon,  rem.  to  Nashua. 

Children :  Daniel,  Eben,  Jonathan,  Abigail. 

3.  SAMUEL,  -f- 

4.  SALLY,  d.  March  8,  1850. 

5.  MICAH,  -+- 

6.  SEWELL,  rem.  to  the  West. 

7.  DAVID,  rem.  to  the  West. 

8.  PUTNAM,  rem.  to  Wilton. 

9.  ANN,  m.  William  Holt. 

10.  POLLY,  b.  1795,  m.  Samuel  Butterfield. 


762  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

DEA.  SAMUEL  HARTSHORN,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Bachelder) 
Hartshorn,  born  in  Lyndeborough,  Dec.  17,  1785;  married  Sally,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel  and  Phebe  (Dodge)  Raymond  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  Nov. 
17,  1808.  She  was  born  Jan.  26,  1791 ;  died  Nov.  24,  1868.  He  died  in 
Mason,  N.  H.,  Sept.  16,  1861.  He  inherited  the  homestead  farm  and 
lived  there  until  about  1843,  when  he  removed  to  Mason,  N.  H.,  where 
he  died.  Children  :  — 

1.  SAMUEL,  b.    Feb.    25,    1810,    m.    April    7,    1835,    Lucinda, 

daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Mary  (Blanchard)  Woodward  of 
L,yndeborough.  I/ike  his  father  he  was  a  deacon  in  the 
church,  and  always  identified  with  its  interests.  Soon  after 
his  marriage  he  had  a  store  in  Wilton  for  a  short  time. 
He  afterward  bought  a  farm  in  Mason,  whither  his  father 
had  gone,  and  removed  there  but  died  about  a  week  after- 
ward. He  died  Nov.  18,  1846.  She  d.  September,  1888. 
Children:  —  Samuel  G.,  res.  in  Milford,  Persis. 

2.  JOHN,  -+• 

3.  GEORGE,  b.  April  16,  1814,  m.  Mary  A.,  dau.  of  Israel  and 

Ruth  (Sargent)  Putnam,  Aug.  23,  1838.  She  was  born 
Oct.  i,  1818,  d.  Jan.  22,  1882,  in  Milford.  He  removed  to 
Mason  soon  after  his  marriage  and  thence  to  Milford, 
where  he  died  January,  1880.  Children  :  — George  R.  and 
Dodge  G.,  twins;  William  N.,  Mary  A. 

4.  MARY  G.,  b.  Jan.  6,  1816,  d.  in  infancy. 

5.  SARAH,  b.  April  25,  1818,  m.  William  A.  Chase  of  Groton, 

Mass.,  Oct.  8,  1846.  Children: — Mary,  George,  Fanny, 
John,  Maria,  Walter. 

6.  HANNAH,  b.  June  26,  1822,  m.  first,  George  L,.  Adams  of 

Northwood,  N.  H.,  Sept.  7,  1848;  second,  Eben  Tilton. 
She  d.  April  5,  1892. 

7.  MARTHA  J.,  (adopted),  b.  Aug.  26,  1833,  m.  Wm.  R.  Put- 

nam of  Woburn,  Mass.,  Dec.  7,  1851.     (See  Putnam  gen.) 

DBA.  JOHN  HARTSHORN,  son  of  Dea.  Samuel  and  Phebe  (Ray- 
mond) Hartshorn,  born  Dec.  31,  1811;  died  Feb.  10,  1878  ;  married  Susan- 
na B.,  daughter  of  Dea.  David  and  Tryphena  (Butler)  Putnam,  April  13, 
1837.  She  was  born  May  14,  1816,  and  died  March  i,  1903.  Dea.  John 
Hartshorn  was  a  man  of  many  sterling  qualities.  He  was  of  a  gener- 
tion  most  of  whom  have  passed  away,  but  those  of  his  associates  still 
living  in  town  speak  of  him  with  respect.  One  of  his  daughters  told  the 
writer  that  when  he  died  it  was  a  common  remark  that  "  he  had  not  an 
enemy  in  the  world."  Belonging  to  the  minority  political  party  in  the 
section  of  the  town  where  he  lived  he  was  always  "  true  to  his  colors," 
and  seldom  failed  to  be  present  at  town  meeting  and  faithfully  discharge 
his  duties  as  a  citizen.  His  interest  in  town  affairs  never  failed.  He  was 
said  to  have  been  exceptionally  genial  and  kind  in  his  home  life.  He 


GENEALOGIES  763 

was  a  deacon   in   the   Baptist  church.     Children,   all   born   in   Lynde- 
borough  :  — 

1.  JOHN  ALONZO,  b.  July  14,   1840.     Killed  in  the   battle  of 

Williamsburg,  May  5,  1862.     (See  Chapter  X.) 

2.  CHARLES  JASON,  b.  July  12,  1843,  d.  Sept.  n,  1861. 

3.  DAVID  P.,  -f- 

4.  SARAH  T.,   b.   Sept.   26,   1853,  m.  George  W.   Moulton  of 

Old  Orchard,  Me.,  Oct.  2,  1869.     He  was  born  May,  1853. 

5.  ELIZABETH  M.,  b.   July   27,   1863,  m.    Fred   B.    Richards. 

(See  Richards  gen.) 

DAVID  P.  HARTSHORN,  son  of  John  and  Susanna  (Putnam)  Harts- 
horn, born  June  30,  1851 ;  married  Mary  Boutelle  of  Antrim,  N.  H.,  June 
8,  1878.  She  was  born  Oct.  4,  1854.  Res.  on  the  homestead  farm  at  So. 
Lyndeborough.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN  W.,  b.  Dec.  7,  1878,  m.  Feb.   4,  1904,  Josephine  E. 

Duncan  of  Antrim. 

2.  CLARENCE,  b.  June  19,  1880. 

3.  HAROLD  F.,  b.  Oct.  20,  1884. 

4.  SUSIE  E.,  b.  April  4,  1888. 

5.  lyOuisE,  b.  Feb.  n,  1891. 

MICAH  HARTSHORN,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Bachelder)  Hartshorn, 
born  July  16,  1793 ;  died  Sept.  26,  1880 ;  married  Hannah  Fletcher.  She 
died  April  13,  1885.  He  lived  where  his  son,  S.  Newell  lived.  Children, 
all  born  in  I/yndeborough  :  — 

1.  ALMON,  b.  Nov.  24,  1819,  d.  Feb.  13,  1842. 

2.  ALONZO,  b.  Jan.  22,  1821,  d.  April  27,  1838. 

3.  FLORA  A.,  b.  March  16,  1825,  m.  Jacob  Putnam  of  Wilton, 

Dec.  31,  1850.  He  d.  Feb.  6,  1895.  She  d.  Oct.  24,  1875. 
Children :  — Flora  J.,  b.  Feb.  4,  1854,  m.  Herbert  Wilkin- 
son of  Herefordshire,  England.  Hannah  A.,  b.  May  24, 
1857,  m.  Henry  A.  Proctor  of  Stoddard,  N.  H. 

4.  ADONIRAM  J.,  -f- 

5.  SAMUEL  N.,  -f- 

ADONIRAM  J.  HARTSHORN,  son  of  Micah  and  Hannah  (Fletcher) 
Hartshorn,  born  Nov.  10,  1827  ;  married  first,  Eliza  Farnsworth  of  Shir- 
ley, Mass.,  Sept.  21,  1854;  second,  Julia  (Cragin)  Draper  of  Wilton. 
Children  :  — 

1.  CHARLES  J.,  b.  in  L,yndeborough,  March  13,  1856. 

2.  FRANK  E.,  b.  in  Mont  Vernon,  Nov.  17,  1862. 

3.  HARRY  A.,   b.   in  West  Groton,  Mass.,  Aug.   16,  1866,  m. 

Ella  R.  Parkhurst.  Children: — Infant  dau.  b.  May  13, 
1888,  Frank  E-,  b.  July  23,  1890. 


764  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

4.  FLORA  J.,  b.  in  West  Groton,  Mass.,  Sept.  2,  1869. 

5.  MAY  B.,  b.  in  Shirley,  Mass.,  Jan.   12,  1872. 

SAMUEL  NEWELL  HARTSHORN,  son  of  Micah  and  Hannah 
(Fletcher)  Hartshorn,  born  June  20,  1829;  married  Jane  E.,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Elvira  (Grey)  French  of  Wilton,  Sept.  29,  1861.  She  was 
born  Dec.  2,  1834.  He  died  July  2,  1894.  He  was  a  mechanic  and  farmer 
and  operated  the  sawmill  on  his  place.  He  was  a  man  of  many  virtues 
and  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  knew  him.  Children,  all  born  in 
Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  WILLIS  N.,  b.   March  31,  1864,  m.  first,  M.  A.  Greene  of 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  16,  1891.  She  was  b.  Jan.  20, 
1867,  d.  March  22,  1895,  m.  second,  C.  B.  Purdy  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  Dec.  25,  1897.  She  was  b.  April  24,  1867. 
He  is  a  mechanical  draftsman  and  res.  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

2.  LEON  E.,  b.  Dec.  9,  1866,  m.  Hattie  J.  Kingsley  of  Duds- 

well,  Province  Quebec,  March  23,  1892.  She  was  b.  May 
16,  1867.  He  d.  June  4,  1898. 

3.  MARION  M.,  b.  Sept.  21,  1872.     Is  a  teacher  of  music  and 

res.  in  Wilton. 

SUMNER  S.  HARTSHORN,  son  of  George  and  Mary  A.  (Putnam) 
Hartshorn  ;  born  in  Mason,  Sept.  13,  1848  ;  married  first,  March  27,  1872, 
Anstress  A.,  daughter  of  Joel  H.  and  Eliza  A.  Gutterson  of  Milford.  She 
was  born  June  2,  1851 ;  died  March  26,  1877.  Married  second,  May  18, 
1878,  Mary  C.,  daughter  of  William  N.  and  Mary  L.  (Smith)  Patterson, 
born  in  Wentworth  Nov.  23,  1856 ;  died  in  Milford,  Dec.  28,  1892.  Mar- 
ried third,  June  22,  1901,  Mrs.  Nellie  R.  Critchett  of  Boscawen.  Resides 
in  South  Lyndeborough,  and  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  education. 
Children,  born  in  Milford,  by  second  wife  :  — 

1.  SUMNER  L/.,  b.  May  19,  1887. 

2.  BERTHA  A.,  b.  April  17,  1889. 

SEWELL  G.  HARTSHORN,  born  Oct.  19,  1799 ;  died  Sept.  18,  1874 . 
married  March  25,  1827,  Harriet  Safford.  She  was  born  March  2,  i8n; 
died  Aug.  19,  1891.  Children:  — 

1.  SARAH  A.,  b.  Aug.  14,  1829,  d.  April  29,  1894. 

2.  GEORGE  P.,  b.  June  25,  1831,  m.  July  3,  1853,  Sarah  Jack- 

son of  Bangor,  Me.  She  was  b.  Oct.  8,  1837.  Res.  at 
Newark,  O. 

3.  DAVID,  b.  July  7,   1836,  m.  Aug.  19,   1862,  Harriet  Seiver. 

He  d.  July  14,  1889. 

4.  MARY,  b.  March  24,  1846,  m.  Sept.  10,  1875,  John  J.  Watts. 

HARWOOD. 

ANDREW  HARWOOD  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Mt.  Vernon  about 
1802  and  settled  on  the  farm  in  "  Perham  Corner"  since  known  as  the 


GENEALOGIES  765 

"Harwood"  place,  now  owned  by  A.  A.  Melendy.  He  married  in  1804, 
Rebecca,  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Isabella  (Hutchinson)  Cram.  She  was 
born  March  9,  1784;  died  Sept  n,  1867.  He  died  in  1860.  Children,  all 
born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  ABIGAIL,  b.  June  20,   1805,  m.  John  F.  Holt  of  Lyndebor- 

ough.     (See  Holt  gen.) 

2.  ALICE,  b.  Jan.  10,  1810,  m.  Kendall  Holt  of  Lyndeborough. 

(See  Holt  gen.) 

3.  ANDREW,  b.  Feb.  8,  1814,  m.  Jane  Lewis,  Goshen,  N.  H. 

HATCH. 

CHARLES  G.  HATCH,  son  of  Lyman  and  Polly  (Fay)  Hatch;  born 
in  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  Dec.  4,  1826;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Asa 
and  Elizabeth  (Goodwin)  Blanchard  of  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  24,  1849.  She 
was  born  Sept.  19,  1829.  He  removed  to  Mil  ford  in  1864,  where  he  died. 
Children :  — 

1.  MARY  B.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Aug.  31,  1850,  m.  first,  Oct. 

10,  1867,  John  F.  Amsden  of  Milford ;  m.  second,  Nov.  10, 
1891,  Henry  A.  Sheriden  of  Milford. 

2.  CHARLES  A.,  b.  in  Milford,  July  7,  1852,  m.  June  18,  1858, 

Annie  G.  Barrows  of  Newark,  O.     Is  a  physician  and  res. 
in  Newark,  Ohio. 

3.  GEORGE  W.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Sept.  3,  1855,  m.  Feb.  25, 

1880,  Marcella  Smith  of  Milford.     Is  a  physician  and  res. 
in  Wilton. 

4.  FRED  S.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough  March  5,   1859,  m.  May  22, 

1883,  Isabelle  B.  Hutchinson  of  Amherst.     Is  an  attorney 
and  res.  in  Larned,  Kan. 

5.  FRANK  S.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Dec.  27,   1860,  m.  April  2, 

1888,  Josephine  Dustin  of  Townsend,  Mass. 

6.  ARTHUR  C.,  b.  in  Milford,  Sept.  27,  1863. 

7.  LILLA  BELLE,  b.  in  Milford,  Jan.  22,  1866,  d.  Nov.  22,  1889. 

8.  BESSIE  G.,  b.  in  Milford,  Feb.  15,  1869. 

9.  ERNEST  G.,  b.  in  Milford,  Jan.  27,  1872. 

HERRICK. 

DR.  ISRAEL  HERRICK.  The  name  Herrick  is  of  Norse  origin  and 
derived  from  the  Danish  Ehric  or  Eric.  This  family  came  to  England 
about  the  time  of  Alfred,  and  figured  conspicuously  in  the  troublous 
times  which  ruled  in  those  days  in  England.  After  seventeen  different 
changes  in  spelling  this  name  finally  became  Herrick. 

Henry  Herrick,  the  Anglo-American  ancestor  of  the  Herricks  of  Lynde- 
borough, came  to  this  country  from  Leicester,  England,  June  24,  1769, 
and  settled  at  Cape  Ann  Side,  now  called  Beverly.  One  of  his  descend- 
ants of  the  sixth  generation,  Edward  Herrick,  of  Andover,  Mass.,  settled 


766  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

in  Wilton  soon  after  the  Revolutionary  War.  This  Edward  was  born  at 
Methuen,  Mass.,  Oct.  9,  1754,  and  was  by  trade  a  cabinet  maker.  He 
built  a  cabinet  shop  and  grist  mill  at  Barnes'  Falls  and  carried  on  busi- 
ness there  until  his  death.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War, 
and  after  his  death  his  widow  secured  a  pension.  He  married  in  Wilton 
Mary  Holt,  Nov.  18,  1779.  She  was  born  at  Andover,  Mass.,  Nov.  24, 
1755.  He  died  Feb.  25,  1810,  aged  fifty-five  years.  She  died  Oct.  24, 
1844,  aged  eighty-nine  years.  They  had  nine  children,  of  whom  Israel, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  seventh.  He  was  born  July  9,  1794. 
'  His  opportunity  for  education  up  to  the  time  he  was  fifteen  years  of 
age  was  the  "district  school  as  it  was,"  as  he  has  said,  and  then  owing 
to  the  long  sickness  and  death  of  his  father  he  was  deprived  of  this  privi- 
lege, small  as  it  was,  until  he  entered  upon  his  nineteenth  year.  At  that 
time  he  was  given  an  invitation  by  an  uncle  who  lived  at  Tarn  worth  to 
come  and  live  with  him,  and  in  December,  1812,  he  started  for  his  new 
home.  He  says  of  this  change:  "From  uncle's  family  I  received  a 
hearty  welcome,  and  they  made  known  to  me  another  welcome  announce- 
ment, viz.,  that  their  district  school  would  commence  on  the  morrow, 
with  the  Rev.  Father  Hidden  as  teacher,  and  would  keep  three  months, 
and  that  I  was  to  go  all  the  time,  and  my  work  would  be  to  take  care  of 
the  stable  and  saw  the  fire  wood.  But  this  I  met  with  dread,  for  I  was  a 
great  ignorant  boy.  Ah !  how  I  dreaded  to  enter  that  school.  .  .  .  But 
this  teacher  proved  to  be  one  of  the  best  friends  I  ever  had.  I  improved 
the  term  faithfully,  so  much  so  that  Father  Hidden  interceded  with  my 
uncle  to  give  me  a  public  education,  and  to  my  joy  it  was  announced  to 
me  that  in  September  I  should  go,  under  the  care  of  Father  Hidden,  to  fit 
me  for  such  an  enterprise.  I  continued  for  almost  two  years,  and  had 
got  almost  prepared  to  enter  college  when  he  was  suddenly  taken  down 
with  neuralgia  sciatica." 

This  uncle  expected  young  Israel  to  become  a  preacher  of  the  Gospel, 
which  he  would  by  no  means  consent  to  do,  as  he  says,  "  without  becom- 
ing a  consummate  hypocrite,"  and  the  result  of  this  sickness  and  differ- 
ence with  his  uncle  was  his  returning  to  his  home  in  Wilton.  In  1815  he 
entered  into  a  partnership  with  a  relative  in  the  West  India  goods  trade 
in  Salem,  Mass.,  but  the  venture  did  not  prove  a  success.  In  1817  he 
commenced  the  study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  John  Wallace,  continuing 
with  him  a  little  over  two  years,  and  finished  his  three  full  years  with 
Dr.  Asa  Crosby  of  Gilmanton  in  September,  1820.  From  there  he  went 
to  Hanover  and  attended  his  second  course  of  lectures,  receiving  his  de- 
gree of  M.D.  in  December,  1820. 

In  1821  he  came  to  Lyndeborough  and  opened  an  office  in  the  middle 
of  the  town  so  called.  It  was  evidently  in  what  was  the  old  "store 
house."  Dr.  Daniel  Ward  well  was  a  practicing  physician  here  then,  and 
Dr.  Herrick  says,  "  Of  course  tny  business  was  small."  In  October  that 
same  year  he  bought  the  real  estate  and*  practice  of  Dr.  Wardwell  and 
soon  had  a  good  and  increasing  practice.  Nov.  28,  1822,  he  married 
Eliza  H.  Burns,  daughter  of  Samuel  Burns  of  Milford,  and  located  in  a 
tenement  owned  by  Col.  Richardson  in  a  house  that  was  afterward  re- 
moved to  Wilton.  The  next  summer  he  built  the  house  where  Herman 
A.  Walker  now  lives,  but  did  not  move  into  it  until  the  spring  of  1824. 


GENEALOGIES  767 

In  1828  he  sold  this  place,  together  with  his  practice,  to  Dr.  Nathan 
Jones,  a  native  of  Lyndeborough,  but  then  practicing  in  Temple,  and 
removed  to  Milford,  March  20,  1828.  He  remained  there  two  years,  and 
then  removed  to  Mason  Village,  where  two  years  was  the  length  of  his 
stay.  From  there  he  went  to  Deering  and  remained  until  1834.  Through 
the  influence  and  solicitation  of  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Merrill  he  was  in- 
duced to  return  to  Lyndeborough  in  November,  1834,  and  opened  an 
office  in  the  house  where  Henry  Clark  afterward  lived.  This  house  was 
torn  down  in  1904. 

He  says  in  his  sketch  of  his  life,  "I  might  here  close  this  meagre 
autobiography  of  my  changeable  life  but  there  are  a  number  of  points  or 
circumstances,  independent  of  my  migratory  course,  which  I  wish  to 
notice,  but  in  the  meantime  humbly  acknowledge  the  hand  of  God  in 
guiding  me  thus  far.  When  darkness  and  doubt  closed  me  in  on  every 
side  and  I  saw  no  way  for  escape  His  kind  and  loving  hand  would,  in  a 
way  I  thought  not  of,  lead  me  out  where  there  was  relief,  light,  joy  and 
hope.  Blessed  be  His  name  forever."  The  above  quotation  reveals  the 
man  he  was. 

He  purchased  the  place  were  his  son,  Benjamin  G.,  now  lives  and 
passed  the  remainder  of  his  days  there.  March  3,  1843,  bis  buildings 
were  destroyed  by  fire,  but  were  soon  rebuilt.  He  was  educated  in  the 
"  old  school"  of  practice  of  medicine,  but  adopted  the  Homeopathic  or 
new  school  at  a  time  when  it  required  considerable  courage  to  do  so. 
He  was  the  fourth  physician  in  this  state  to  adopt  this  method.  It  was 
receiving  at  that  time  great  ridicule  and  opposition  from  the  adherents  of 
the  old  way.  Dr.  Herrick  was  eminently  successful  as  a  physician  and 
had  a  large  practice.  His  skilled  services  were  in  demand,  not  only 
in  his  own  town,  but  in  the  neighboring  towns  as  well.  He  was  ever 
ready  to  attend  a  call  day  or  night,  and  he  knew  to  the  full  the  hardships 
of  a  country  doctor.  Generous  to  a  fault  he  seldom  pressed  a  debtor 
for  a  bill. 

As  a  citizen  he  took  great  interest  in  the  material  affairs  of  the  town 
and  his  ability  and  common  sense  made  his  opinions  respected.  He  was 
three  times  elected  to  serve  his  town  in  the  Legislature  and  also  held  the 
office  of  selectman  and  town  clerk.  He  early  became  interested  in  the 
Anti-Slavery  agitation,  and  cast  the  first  abolition  ballot  ever  offered  in 
town.  It  was  taken  from  the  ballot  box  and  passed  around  as  a  curiosity. 
For  some  reason  it  was  not  returned  and  was  never  counted.  He  was 
prominent  in  the  crusade  against  rum  and  was  a  temperance  speaker  of 
some  note,  and  a  poet  of  no  mean  ability.  He  was  one  of  those  rare 
men  whose  presence  in  the  sick  room  brings  restfulness,  courage  and 
confidence  to  the  patient.  Of  a  stout  habit  with  bushy  eyebrows,  sharp 
grey  eyes  but  kindly  withal,  he  was  a  man,  once  seen,  to  be  remembered. 
Failing  health  compelled  him  to  relinquish  much  of  his  practice  during 
the  last  years  of  his  life,  but  whenever  possible  he  responded  when  his 
services  were  needed. 

Dr.  Israel  Herrick,  son  of  Edward  and  Mary  (Holt)  Herrick,  born 
July  9,  1794;  died  Feb.  18,  1866;  married  first,  Eliza  H.,  daughter  of 
Samuel  and  Abigail  (Jones)  Burns  of  Milford,  N.  H.,  Nov.  28,  1822. 
She  was  born  Nov.  24,  1802,  and  died  April  20,  1848 ;  married  second, 


768  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

Emmeline,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Chloe  (Abbott)  Grey  of  Wilton,  N. 
H.,  Dec.  12,  1849.  She  was  born  Oct.  u,  1811 ;  died  June  3,  1891.  Chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  ELIZA  D.,  b.  Sept.  20,  1823,  d.  Aug.  20,  1825. 

2.  LAFAYETTE,  -f- 

3.  WILLIAM  J.,  + 

4.  EDWARD  H.,  b.  Oct.  n,  1828,  d.  July  25,  1873. 

5.  BENJAMIN  G.,  -f- 

LAFAYETTE  HERRICK,  son  of  Israel  and  Eliza  (Burns)  Herrick, 
born  Jan.  29,  1825  ;  married  first,  Sarah  E.,  daughter  of  Francis  D.  and 
Mehitable  (Haynes)  Johnson  of  Lyndeborough,  Feb.  3,  1848.  She  was 
born  Nov.  15,  1827;  married  second,  Indianna  E.,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Mahali  (Elliott)  Wilson  of  Pepperell,  Mass.,  Sept.  9,  1854.  She 
was  born  April  19,  1838.  He  died  May  30,  1888.  Children,  all  by  second 
wife :  — 

1.  HENRY  A.,  b.  March  4,   1855,  m.  Mrs.   Lizzie   Wilson  of 

Greenfield,  Jan.  27,  1897.     He  d.  June  17,  1901. 

2.  CARRIE  D.,  b.  Nov.  8,  1858,  d.  Dec.  i,  1872. 

3.  ANNA  E.,  b.  Aug.  7,  1860,  d.  Dec.  16,  1868. 

4.  IDA  M.,  b.  Jan.  4,  1866,  d.  Nov.  18,  \\ 


WILLIAM  J.  HERRICK,  son  of  Israel  and  Eliza  (Burns)  Herrick. 
born  Jan.  15,  1827;  married  first,  Chloe,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Olive 
(Clark)  Jones  of  Lyndeborough,  April  30,  1849.  She  was  born  Feb.  27, 
1831  ;  died  Nov.  21,  1876;  married  second,  Mrs.  Mary  Jane  McGaskey  of 
Plymouth,  Mo.,  Oct.  31,  1878.  He  died  Jan.  5,  1893.  He  kept  the  store 
at  the  "centre  "  for  some  years.  He  had  a  partner  at  first  and  the  firm 
was  known  as  O'Donnell  &  Herrick,  but  he  was  afterwards  sole  proprie- 
tor. At  that  time,  1860  to  1865,  considerable  trading  was  done  at  the  old 
store  at  the  "  centre  "  and  Mr.  Herrick  did  a  thriving  business.  He  was 
the  postmaster  and  during  the  years  of  the  Civil  War  but  one  daily 
paper  was  taken  by  any  patron  of  that  office,  and  the  neighbors  used  to 
gather  at  the  store  when  Dr.  Jones  brought  the  mail  to  get  the  news 
from  the  front.  The  railroad  then  only  came  as  far  as  Wilton  and  all 
merchandise  was  brought  from  there  by  team.  Soon  after  the  close  of 
the  war,  he  was  taken  with  the  "western  fever"  and  removed  to  Elk 
Grove,  111.,  where  he  remained  until  1870  when  he  bought  80  acres  of 
wild  prairie  land  of  the  Hannibal  and  St.  Joe  railroad  and  made  a  new 
home  in  Missouri.  He  was  a  pioneer  in  the  section  where  he  settled) 
and  became  influential  and  prosperous.  His  decendants  reside  there  now. 
Children  by  first  wife,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  but  two  youngest :  — 

1.  CHARLES  I.,  b.  Jan.  n,  1850,  m.  Oct.  29,  1874,  Frances  E. 

Lyon.  Children :  — Mina  Belle,  Chloe  F.  Res.  in  Ply- 
mouth, Mo.,  where  he  is  a  prosperous  farmer  and  has  held 
public  office. 

2.  EMMA  E.,  b.  Aug.  i,  1854,  m.  Oct.  25,  1870,  Horace  Wright- 


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GENEALOGIES  769 

man.     Children  :  — Florence  E.,  Grace,  Frederick,  Samuel, 
Laura.     Res.  in  Plymouth,  Mo. 

3.  FRANK  H.,  b.  Oct.  30,  1855,  d.  June  18,  1858. 

4.  FRANK  H.,  2ND.,  b.  Sept.  i,  1859,  d.  March  21,  1861. 

5.  SAMUEL  J.,  b.  May  2,   1862,  m.  Aug.  7,   1883,  Emma   E. 

Welker.     Children:  —  Myrta  L.,  L/eah  B.     He  is  a  phy- 
sician and  res.  in  Everest,  Kan. 

6.  ALICE  CLARK,  b.  in  Missouri,  Oct.  5,  1869. 

7.  WILLIAM  A.,  b.  in  Missouri,  May  5,  1874,  d.  Oct.  6,  1878. 

BENJAMIN  G.  HERRICK,  son  of  Israel  and  Eliza  (Burns)  Herrick  ; 
born  May  i,  1836.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Lynde- 
borough,  and  became  a  prominent  figure  in  its  social  and  political  life. 
A  lover  of  music,  he  was  a  long  time  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  choir,  and  was  always  ready  to  assist  the  "committee  on  music  " 
at  entertainments  and  celebrations  held  in  town.  He  is  a  valued  leader 
in  the  councils  of  the  political  party  to  which  he  belongs  and  unswerving 
in  his  allegiance  to  its  principles.  He  early  joined  in  the  grange  move- 
ment and  was  the  master  of  the  local  branch  of  the  order  for  several 
years,  serving  with  faith  and  perseverance.  He  was  nominated  and 
elected  county  commissioner  in  the  fall  of  1888,  having  the  honor  of 
being  the  first  Lyndeborough  man  to  have  a  place  on  the  county  ticket. 
He  was  re-elected  three  times,  serving  in  all,  eight  years.  During  two 
years  of  his  term  of  office,  and  while  chairman  of  the  board,  the  county 
commissioners  had  the  care  and  responsibility  of  the  expenditure  of  nearly 
$400,000,  taking  into  account  expenses  for  the  support  of  the  county  poor 
and  the  erecting  of  the  new  county  buildings  at  Grasmere.  It  was  during 
his  term  of  office  that  the  location  of  the  county  farm  at  Wilton  was  aban- 
doned and  the  commodious  and  convenient  plant  at  Goffstown  estab- 
lished. He  was  called  upon  to  help  decide  many  important  road  cases, 
and  discharged  his  duties  to  the  satisfaction  and  approval  of  his  constitu- 
ents. He  had  entire  charge  of  the  county  poor  in  the  towns  of  the 
county.  He  was  elected  representative  in  1900,  and  very  naturally  was 
made  chairman  of  the  committee  on  county  affairs.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X.)  He  married  Sarah  E.,  daughter  of 
Nathaniel  R.  and  Rebecca  (Palmer)  Fish  of  Peterborough,  N.  H.,  Jan.  8, 
1861.  She  was  born  July  13,  1836.  Child,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

i-.  WILLIE,  F.  -f- 

WILLIE  F.  HERRICK,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  .E.  (Fish)  Her- 
rick; born  Jan.  15,  1866;  married  Nellie,  daughter  of  Antoine  and  Mary 
(Ross)  Farnham  of  Lyndeborough,  Jan.  28,  1891.  She  died  May  5,  1897. 
He  married  second,  Feb.  5,  1902,  Lucy  A.,  daughter  of  Francis  J.  and 
Catharine  (O'Brien)  Barrett  of  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  born  Nov.  i,  1875. 
Children  by  first  wife :  — 

1.  HARRY  B.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1891. 

2.  ROY  F.,  b.  July  18,  1895. 

3.  BESSIE  E.,  b.  April  5,  1897. 


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Child  by  second  wife  :  — 

4.  FRANCES  BARRETT,  b.  June  i,  1905. 

EDWARD  HERRICK,  a  brother  of  Dr.  Israel  Herrick,  once  lived  in 
Lyndeborough,  on  the  farm  where  E.  H.  Putnam  lives.  He  was  the  son 
of  Edward  and  Mary  (Holt)  Herrick ;  born  Oct.  29,  1785 ;  married  first, 
Nancy  Barrett  of  Wilton,  Dec.  27,  1810.  She  died  Nov.  27,  1824.  He 
married  second,  Nov.  22,  1825,  Mary  Andrews.  The  records  do  not  show 
whether  their  children  were  born  in  Lyndeborough  or  not.  Children  :  — 

1.  EDWARD  BARRETT,  b.  April  n,  1812. 

2.  MARY  J.,  b.  Sept.  17,  1814,  m.  Joel  Hesselton. 

3.  ELIZA  A.,  b.  June  2,  1816,  m.  Oscar  Ingalls. 

4.  CHARLES  P.,  b.  April  27,  1818. 

5.  NANCY  D.,  b.  July  4,  1820,  m.  Silas  B.  Winn. 

6.  ALONZO,  b.  Dec.  9,  1827. 

7.  JOHN  A.  b.  Nov.  3,  

8.  HARRIET  J.,  b.  Dec.  26,  1831. 

9.  ANDREW  J.,  b.  June  5,  1834. 

10.  CLYMINIA  F.,  b.  April  5,  1838. 

11.  JOHN  A.,  b.  Nov.  30,  1839. 

HESSEI/TINE. 

NATHAN  HESSELTINE,  JR.,was  the  son  of  Nathan  Hesseltine,  who 
settled  in  Wilton.  The  church  records  of  Wilton  show  that  the  four 
older  children  were  baptized  in  the  church  there,  but  the  town  records  of 
Lyndeborough  show  that  all  the  children  of  Nathan  Hesseltine  were  born 
in  Lyndeborough.  He  lived  in  a  house  that  stood  where  the  glass  factory 
was  built,  and  there  is  where  his  children  were  born.  Nathan  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  Revolutionary  War,  according  to  the  Wilton  History.  The 
name  is  spelled  in  different  ways,  and  in  Wilton  it  is  usually  written 
Hesselton.  He  married  Phebe and  we  have  no  further  record  ex- 
cept the  births  of  his  children  :  — 

1.  PHEBE,  b.  April  30,  1776. 

2.  JOHN,  b.  Jan.  24,  1779,  m.  April   17,   1808,  Sally,  dau.  of 

John  Baldwin. 

3.  NATHAN,  b.  March  24,  1781,  rem.  to  Weston,  Vt.,  d.  Jan.  4, 

1814. 

4.  SAMUEL,  b.  May  14,  1783. 

5.  LOTS,  b.  Sept.  16,  1785. 

SKY.  b.  July  9,  1788. 

-KAH,  b.  Au.i*.  14,  1790,  d.  Feb.  14,  1795. 
.    D     .  1).  Aug.  2,  1793. 

HILDRETH. 
JuTHAM  UlIvDRETH.     Our  record  of  the  Hildreth  family  is  imper- 


GENEALOGIES  771 

feet.  From  what  few  records  we  are  able  to  obtain,  it  would  seem  that 
Jotham  Hildreth  came  from  Amherst  in  1800  and  settled  on  land  in  the 
southwestern  part  of  the  town.  He  married  Abigail,  daughter  of  Joshua 
and  Abigail  (Ladd)  Sargent  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Feb.  22, 
1781  ;  died  Aug.  24,  1850.  He  died  Dec.  8,  1850.  He  was  evidently  a  man 
of  considerable  business  ability  and  energy.  He  built  and  owned  one  or 
more  sawmills  in  town.  The  farm  where  he  settled  has  since  been  known 
as  the  Hildreth  place,  now  owned  by  the  heirs  of  Mr.  Gould.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  ABIGAIL,  b.  Jan.   15,  1806,  m.  first,  Israel  Putnam.     (See 

Putnam  gen.);  m.  second,  Jacob  Crosby.  She  d.  July  8, 
1888. 

2.  JOTHAM,  b.  June  25,  1807,  d.  July  8,  1893.     He  was  a  man 

possessed  of  considerable  means  for  a  farmer  of  his  day,  and 
while  of  a  quiet,  retiring  nature,  he  was  still  a  well  known 
citizen,  and  had  in  a  large  degree  the  respect  of  the  com- 
munity. He  was  a  devout  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  and  a  constant  attendant  at  church  services  until 
infirmity  prevented.  He  gave  the  church  a  sum  of  money 
the  income  of  which  was  to  be  used  in  its  support,  and  he 
left  a  bequest  to  be  administered  by  trustees,  the  income  of 
which  was  to  be  devoted  to  helping  the  worthy  poor.  He 
met  his  death  by  accident,  falling  from  the  railroad  track  at 
or  near  the  so-called  gulf  bridge. 

3.  JACOB,  b.  Dec.  31,   1809,  m.  June  14,   1842,  Sarah,  dau.  of 

Israel  and  Abigail  (L/ewis)  Goodrich  of  L/yndeborough. 
She  was  b.  June  24,  1821  ;  d.  July  5,  1844.  He  d.  May  17, 
1849. 

4.  MARY  A.,  b.  June  12,  1817,  d.  Sept.  3,  1836. 

5.  JULIA  A.,  b.  March  26,  1821,  d.  Sept.  10,  1875. 


ABEL  HILL,  son  of  Alpheus  Hill  of  Billerica,  Mass.,  born  Aug.  22, 
1787;  married  Jan.  22,  1814,  Polly,  daughter  of  John  and  Ruth  (South- 
wick)  Proctor.  She  was  born  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  April  2,  1791;  died 
Nov.  7,  1857.  He  died  in  Henniker,  March  12,  1828.  He  was  the  first  of 
this  family  to  come  to  Lyndeborough.  He  settled  on  a  farm  situated  on 
the  old  road  from  the  Nathan  Richardson  place  to  North  Lyndeborough. 
Daniel  B.  Whittemore  owns  the  pasture  where  the  old  cellar  hole  is. 
Asa  was  born  there.  After  Abel  Hill's  death  in  Henniker  his  wife  and 
children  came  back  to  Lyndeborough,  and  lived  in  a  house  on  the  side  of 
the  mountain  south  of  M.  T.  Spalding's  place.  Nothing  but  a  cellar 
hole  there  now.  Children  :  — 

1.  ASA,  -4- 

2.  SYLVESTER,  b.  Aug.  16,  1819;  d.  Feb.  21,  1821. 


772  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

3.  MARY  P.,  b.  Jan.  15,  1822,  m.  John  Carleton  of  Lyndebor- 

ough.     (See  Carleton  gen.) 

4.  SYLVESTER,  2ND.,  b.  Sept.  23,  1823,  d.  Sept.  16,  1853. 

5.  MARTHA,  b.  Jan.  4,  1826,  d.  Feb.  7,  1860. 

Of  these   children,   Asa  was  b.  in   I/yndeborough,   the  others 
in  Henniker. 

ASA  HILL,  son  of  Abel  and  Polly  (Proctor)  Hill,  born  in  Lyndebor- 
ough,  May  3,  1816  ;  married  April  24,  1847,  Julia  Augusta  Burgess  of 
Maine.  She  was  born  June  10,  1824  ;  died  Dec.  8,  1900.  He  died  Oct.  20, 
1891.  He  was  a  deacon  in  the  Congregational  Church  for  many  years. 
He  always  took  great  interest  in  the  events  of  the  town  but  never  held 
public  office  of  any  importance.  He  was  a  long  time  member  of  the 
Lafayette  Artillery  Company.  Children  :  — 

1.  FRED  M.,  b.  May  5,  1853,  m.  Feb.   8,  1877,  Ella  L.,  dau. 

of  William  A.  and  Mary  (Hardy)  Colburn.  She  was  b. 
in  Hollis,  Nov.  12,  1852.  They  have  three  children  : 
Frank  A.,  b.  June  13,  1878;  Charles  A.,  b.  Sept.  10,  1879; 
Mary  E.,  b.  July  7,  1881,  d.  Feb.  28,  1891. 

2.  IRA  B.,  b.  May  3,  1861,  m.  January,  1884,  Emma  F.,  dau.  of 

William  A.  and  Mary  (Hardy)  Colburn.  She  was  b.  in 
Hollis,  June  16,  1863.  Children  : — Gladys  A.,  b.  July  21, 
1896. 

HOLDEN. 

AARON  HOLDEN,  born  in  Mason ;  married  Sept.  5,  1843,  Julia  A. 
Morse  of  Francestown.  She  was  born  Sept.  5,  1820.  He  died  Oct.  4, 
1886.  Children  :  — 

1.  GEORGE  H. 

2.  AARON  A. 

3.  HENRY  E.,  + 

4.  FLORENCE   D.,    b.    Oct.    16,    1854,    m.    Charles   H.    Pond. 

Children  :  —  Edward,  Delia  F. 

5.  AARON  A.,  b.  Jan.  28,  1858. 

HENRY  E.  HOLDEN,  son  of  Aaron  and  Julia  (Morse)  Holden,  born 
Oct.  18,  1850;  married  Lizzie  J.  Peabody.  She  was  born  April  14,  1857. 
Children  :  — 

1.  PERLEY  E.,  + 

2.  ADA  B.,  b.  July  20,  1876. 

3.  FLORENCE  D.,  b.  April  10,  1879. 

4.  BELLA  F.,  b.  Feb.  4,  1883. 

PERLEY  E.  HOLDEN,  son  of  Henry  E.  and  Lizzie  J.  (Peabody) 
Holden,  born  April  3,  1875;  married  June  25,  1897,  Myrtie  C.,  daughter 
of  John  H.  and  Clintina  (Carkin)  Burton.  Children :  — 


GENEALOGIES  773 

1.  VIOLA,  b.  May  25,  1899. 

2.  MARGIE  C.,  b.  Oct.  12,  1902. 

HOI/T. 

The  name  Holt  is  of  ancient  origin  and  is  applied  to  a  number  of 
towns  and  parishes  in  England.  According  to  some  writers  on  English 
genealogy  there  would  appear  to  have  been  two  prominent  families  of 
this  name,  known  as  the  Aston  family  of  Norwickshire  and  the  Grizzle- 
hurst  family  of  Lancaster.  Sir  John  Holt,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the 
King's  Bench,  was  a  descendant  of  the  last-named  family,  and  was  a 
very  famous  man  in  his  day.  He  was  noted  for  his  extensive  knowledge 
of  the  common  law  of  England  and  his  uprightness  upon  the  bench. 
Nicholas  Holt,  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Holts  of  New  England, 
was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Sir  John.  The  time  and  place  of  the  birth  of 
Nicholas  is  unknown.  The  first  definite  information  we  have  of  him  is 
as  a  passenger  on  the  Ship  James  of  London,  William  Cooper,  master, 
which  sailed  from  the  port  of  Southampton,  Eng.,  April,  1635,  and  of 
his  arrival  on  these  shores  the  third  of  June  following.  He  was  un- 
doubtedly accompanied  by  his  wife  and  at  least  one  child.  He  settled  in 
Newbury,  Mass.,  and  lived  there  nine  years.  In  1644  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  Andover,  Mass.,  and  was  the  seventh  settler  of  that  town. 
He  was  three  times  married.  The  Christian  name  of  his  first  wife  was 
Elizabeth ;  his  second  wife  was  Hannah  Rolfe,  and  his  third,  Mrs. 
Martha  Preston.  He  died  in  Andover,  Mass.,  Jan.  30,  1685.  William 
Holt,  the  first  of  this  family  to  come  to  Lyndeborough,  was  of  the  fourth 
generation  from  Nicholas  of  Andover  as  follows :  Nicholas,  Henry, 
Oliver,  William. 

The  exact  date  of  his  coming  to  Lyndeborough  is  not  known  but  it 
was  some  time  previous  to  1760,  for  the  town  records  contain  the  follow- 
ing date  of  birth  :  "  William,  son  of  William  Holt  and  Bulah,  his  wife, 
born  March  23,  1760."  It  is  a  tradition  that  William  Holt  came  to 
Salem-Canada  with  David  Stratton  and  as  Stratton  took  a  deed  of  some 
land  in  1745,  that  is  probably  the  year.  After  spending  one  winter  with 
Stratton  hunting  and  trapping  he  bought  the  lot  numbered  76  or  what 
was  afterwards  the  Dr.  Herrick  farm,  taking  a  deed,  Aug.  9,  1753.  Later 
he  bought  Stratton' s  farm,  and  removed  there.  This  farm  is  the  one 
now  owned  by  his  descendant,  Andy  Holt.  He  had  three  sons  born  in 
Lyndeborough,  William,  Oliver  and  Benjamin,  and  daughters  also,  but 
of  them  we  find  no  record  excepting  that  of  Mary  and  Judith.  William 
settled  in  Greenfield  and  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Holts  of  that  town. 
Oliver  remained  on  the  ancestral  acres,  and  of  Benjamin  there  is  no 
further  record.  Transcript  from  Town  Records  : 

"William,  son  of  William  Holt,  Jr.,  and  Betty,  his  wife,  b.  Jan.  23, 
1791 ;  d.  Feb.  6,  1791,  Levi  Spaulding,  son  of  do.  b.  Nov.  28,  1784. 

Bulah,  dau.  of  do.  b.  Jan.  13,  1787. 

Oliver,  son  of  do.  b.  May  16,  1789. 

Betty,  dau.  of  do.  b.  Jan.  23,  1791.     Twin  with  William." 

OLIVER  HOLT,  son  of  William  and  Bulah  Holt,  married  Jane  Karr, 
a  daughter  of  James  Karr,  who  settled  in  Lyndeborough  in  the  early 


774  H1STOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

days.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  Army,  and  died  Feb.  27, 
1854,  aged  93.  She  died  September,  1844.  'Of  the  children  of  Oliver  and 
Jane  (Karr)  Holt  only  David  and  Thomas  remained  residents  of  Lyndebor- 
ough.  Oliver  removed  to  Goshen,  N.  H.;  Parker  removed  to  Leroy,  O.; 
Calvin  to  Newport,  N.  H.,  and  later  in  1851,  during  the  gold  excitement, 
crossed  the  plains  with  a  team,  taking  three  months  to  make  the  jour- 
ney. He  died  in  Kentucky.  Thomas  K.  married  and  had  children  born 
in  Lyndeborough,  but  of  them  we  have  no  record.  Children,  all  born  in 
Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  JACOB,  b.  Aug.  27,  1790,  d.  Sept.  27,  1790. 

2.  THOMAS  K.,   b.   Jan.    10,  1792,  m.    Sally   Messer.     He  d. 

Nov.  12,  1836. 

3.  JANE,  b.  April  28,  1794,  m.  Arronet  Gunnison  of  Goshen. 

4.  OLIVER,  + 

5.  JOANNA,  b.   Dec.   16,   1798,  m.  May  6,   1818,  John  Lewis. 

She  died  Dec.  6,  1888. 

6.  PARKER,  b.  Nov.  6,  1801,  d.  Aug.  21,  1802. 

7.  DAVID,  -f- 

8.  CALVIN, 

OLIVER  HOLT,  son  of  Oliver  and  Jane  (Karr)  Holt;  born  Oct.  30, 
1796;  married  Harriet  Willey,  daughter  of  Reuben  Willey  of  Goshen. 
She  was  born  Aug.  i,  1799;  died  Dec.  22,  1877.  He  died  Dec.  15,  1876. 
Children :  — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  April  20,  1821,  m.  John  Graves  of  Dempster,  d. 

Nov.  8,  1850. 

2.  HARRIET,  b.  Sept.  n,  1825,  d.  March  15,  1900. 

3.  L/UTHERA  M.,  b.  Jan.  16,  1828,  m.  Charles  E.  Cook  of  Al- 

stead,  d.  June  4,  1860. 

4.  OUVER,  b.  Aug.  30,   1830,    m.  first,  Nov.  25,   1852,  Mary 

Miles  of  Stow,  Mass.  She  d.  May  20,  1870,  and  he  m. 
second,  June  31,  1871,  I^ouisa  Bigelow  of  N.  Y.  She  d. 
Feb.  n,  1899. 

5.  WILSON  D.,  b.  June  26,  1833,  d.  Dec.  22,  1877. 
This  family  lived  in  Goshen  or  Alstead. 

DAVID  HOLT,  son  of  Oliver  and  Jane  (Karr)  Holt ;  born  June  9,  1804 ; 
married  first,  Jan.  20,  1829,  Bethiah  Wilson  of  Greenfield.  She  was  born 
in  1807  and  died  Jan.  5,  1837,  aged  30  years;  married  second,  Ann  Coch- 
ran  of  Antrim,  June  18,  1837.  She  was  born  March  2,  1802 ;  died  April 
13,  1870;  married  third,  Mrs.  Julia  Clark. 

David  Holt  was  a  notable  man  in  the  life  of  the  town  in  his  day.  He 
had  a  keen  wit  and  a  dry  humor  which  made  his  sayings  much  quoted. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church  and  a  pretty  constant  at- 
tendant thereof.  He  was  public  spirited,  and  of  the  duties  which  fall  to 
the  citizens  of  country  towns  always  bore  his  full  share.  He  died  Oct. 
22,  1884.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 


ALFRED    F.    HOLT. 


GENEALOGIES  77S 

1.  BENJAMIN  W.,  b.  Mar.  16,  1830,  d.  Mar.  18,  1832. 

2.  MARY  J.,  b.  Jan.  20,  1833,  m.  Isaiah  Barzillai  Curtis.     (See 

Curtis  gen.) 

3.  Miriam  M.,  b.  March  2,  1834,  m-  Clark  Jones.     (See  Jones 

gen.) 
By  second  wife  :  — 

4.  ALFRED   F.,  -J- 

5.  FRANCES  A.,  b.  Feb.  16,  1840,  m.  Kilburn  S.  Curtis.     (See 

Curtis  gen.) 

6.  ANDY,  -\- 

7.  E^LEN  B.,  b.  Dec.   10,   1844,    m-  April  18,   1882,  Fred   E. 

Hardy  of  Francestown,  res.  in  California.     Child  :  Ethel  J., 
b.  July  i,  1883,  d.  Nov.  20,  1883. 

GEN.  ALFRED  F.  HOLT,  son  of  David  and  Ann  (Cochran)  Holt; 
born  Dec.  16,  1838;  married  in  1868,  Lizzie  B.  Gardner  of  Cambridge, 
Mass.  Until  the  age  of  nineteen  years  his  life  was  the  common  lot  of 
farmers'  boys  of  that  time.  He  worked  on  the  farm  summers,  attended 
the  district  school  winters,  and  had  the  advantage  of  a  few  terms  at  the 
Academy  at  Mont  Vernon.  At  about  the  age  of  nineteen  he  commenced 
the  study  of  medicine  under  the  supervision  of  Dr.  William  A.  Jones, 
spending  a  year  with  him.  The  next  two  years  he  studied  with  Dr. 
Woodbury  of  East  Boston,  and  attending  courses  of  medical  lectures  at 
Harvard  University  in  the  winters  of  1858,  1859,  an<i  1860.  In  the  spring 
of  1860,  he  attended  a  course  of  medical  lectures  at  the  University  of 
Vermont,  where  he  received  his  degree  of  M.D.  in  June  of  that  year. 

In  August,  1860,  he  removed  to  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  commenced 
the  practice  of  medicine.  But  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War 
changed  the  life  of  this  young  man  as  it  changed  the  lives  of  so  many 
others.  Imbued  with  a  spirit  of  patriotism  and  a  love  for  the  Union,  he 
enlisted  April  16,  1861,  in  the  first  company  raised  in  the  northern  states 
to  defend  the  Union  and  the  flag.  This  company  was  attached  to  the 
Third  Regt.  Mass.  Vol.  Militia,  and  on  the  evening  of  April  17,  1861, 
sailed  for  Fortress  Munroe.  During  the  voyage  he  was  made  hospital 
steward  of  the  regiment,  which  position  he  held  during  his  three  months 
of  service.  His  regiment  assisted  at  the  burning  of  the  navy  yard  near 
Norfolk,  Va.,  April  22,  1861,  and  was  afterward  stationed  at  Fortress 
Munroe  and  Hampton,  Va.  When  the  term  of  enlistment  expired,  Dr. 
Holt  at  once  sought  a  position  in  the  medical  corps  of  the  army.  He 
was  successful  and  was  made  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Thirtieth  Massa- 
chusetts, a  regiment  organized  for  duty  under  Gen.  Butler  in  the  ex. 
treme  south.  Jan.  2,  1862,  this  regiment  embarked  on  the  Steamer 
Constitution,  and  a  few  days  after  sailed  for  Ship  Island,  that  death 
spot  for  so  many  northern  boys.  During  the  bombardment  of  Forts 
Jackson  and  St.  Phillip  this  regiment  was  on  shipboard  a  few  miles  be. 
low  on  the  river,  and  after  the  surrender  of  the  forts  was  first  to  enter 
New  Orleans.  He  saw  service  in  front  of  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  and  later  at 
Baton  Rouge  and  Carrolton.  At  the  Battle  of  Baton  Rouge  he  was 


776  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

especially  mentioned  in  general  orders  for  bravery  and  humanity  in  giv- 
ing aid  to  the  wounded  as  they  fell.  In  December,  1862,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  surgeon  of  the  First  Texas  Cavalry,  a  regiment  made  up  largely 
of  men  who  were  obliged  to  leave  their  homes  on  account  of  their  Union 
sentiments.  It  can  readily  be  seen  that  to  win  promotion  in  a  regiment 
of  men  embittered  by  loss  of  home,  and  imbued  with  a  strong  desire  to 
avenge  themselves  on  their  foes  required  courage  and  ability  of  high 
degree. 

Dr.  Holt  held  up  the  banner  of  New  England  grit  evidently,  for  in 
December,  1863,  he  left  the  medical  department  and  was  made  senior 
major  of  the  regiment,  and  a  few  months  after  was  promoted  to  lieuten- 
ant colonel,  which  position  he  held  until  the  final  muster  out,  October, 
1865,  at  San.  Antonio,  Texas,  commanding  his  regiment  almost  contin- 
uously from  the  time  he  was  made  field  officer.  During  this  time  he 
took  part  in  nearly  all  the  campaigns,  battles  and  skirmishes  that  oc- 
curred in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf.  In  1866  he  returned  to  Cam- 
bridge and  again  commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession.  He  became 
a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  of  the  Massachusetts 
Medical  Society,  of  the  Cambridge  Medical  Improvement  Society  and  of 
the  American  Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science.  He  stood 
high  in  his  profession,  was  noted  as  a  microscopist  and  was  an  author- 
ity in  the  study  of  morbid  anatomy. 

In  June,  1879,  Dr.  Holt  was  appointed  one  of  the  medical  examiners 
for  Massachusetts,  and  in  January,  1884,  was  made  surgeon-general  of 
the  State  with  the  rank  of  brigadier-general,  which  position  he  held 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  and  also  of  the 
Loyal  Legion.  He  died  at  Martin,  Florida,  where  he  had  gone  for  his 
health,  Dec.  28,  1890.  The  resolutions  passed  by  the  various  societies  to 
which  he  belonged,  and  the  letters  of  condolence  by  the  governor  and 
fellow  members  of  the  staff  show  the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held.  He 
won  fame  and  honor  in  the  state  of  his  adoption,  but  to  his  greater  credit 
he  never  lost  his  love  for  his  native  town  and  the  old  homestead  farm 
where  he  spent  his  boyhood  days.  In  the  last  years  of  his  life,  as 
much  time  as  could  be  spared  from  his  duties  at  Cambridge  was  spent  on 
the  old  farm  in  Lyndeborough.  Gov.  Brackett  of  Massachusetts  says  of 
him,  "  His  straight-forward  manliness,  his  unswerving  integrity,  his 
kindness  of  heart  endeared  him  to  me  and  now  that  he  has  gone  from 
among  us  they  have  left  a  fragrant  memory." 

The  Massachusetts  Medico  Legal  Society,  of  which  he  was  president, 
in  resolutions  on  his  death  say,  that  "  for  his  services  to  humanity  and 
to  the  medical  profession  for  his  researches,  his  study  and  his  skill  in 
his  chosen  field  of  pathology,  for  his  zeal  and  ability  as  a  surgeon  and 
physician.  .  .  .  We  deplore  his  loss." 

ANDY  HOLT,  son  of  David  and  Ann  (Cochran)  Holt;  born  Feb.  i, 
1842 ;  married  May  4,  1864,  Abby  J.,  daughter  of  Harvey  and  Lois  (Cram) 
Holt.  She  was  born  Feb.  20,  1846.  He  has  been  largely  identified  with 
the  business  and  social  interests  of  the  town.  Elected  a  member  of  the 
board  of  selectmen  first  in  1870,  he  has  held  that  office  fourteen  times 
since.  He  represented  the  town  in  the  legislature  of  1903,  and  has  at  one 
time  or  another  been  chosen  to  fill  about  all  the  offices  in  the  gift  of  the 


ANDY    HOLT. 


GENEALOGIES  777 

town.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  and  the  first  master  of  Pinnacle 
Grange  and  captain  of  the  Lafayette  Artillery  Co.  for  several  years.  He 
has  always  taken  great  interest  in  military  affairs,  and  is  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  above  named  organization.  In  social  affairs,  in  committees  in 
educational  interests,  he  has  always  been  a  prominent  figure.  He  is  the 
conceded  leader  of  his  political  party  in  town,  and  of  late  years  has  de- 
voted much  time  to  state  politics  and  to  Grand  Army  affairs.  He  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Civil  War,  and  is  a  man  to  whom  the  Grand  Army  organiza- 
tion appeals  strongly.  He  lives  at  South  Lyndeborough.  (For  his  mili- 
tary record  see  Chap.  X.)  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  FI.ORA  M.,  b.  Aug.  21,  1867,  m.  June  2,  1887,  Edwin  W.  H. 

Farnum  of  Francestown. 

2.  PARKER,  b.  April  3,  1870,  d.  Aug.  9,  1876. 

3.  FRED  A.,  b.  Nov.  30,   1881,  m.  Feb.   u,   1903,  Annie  M., 

dau.  of  Charles  H.  and  Susie  (Watkins)  Senter  of  Lynde- 
borough. 

4.  HARRY  W.,  b.  April  n,  1883. 

HOLT. 

HARVEY  HOLT,  born  May  5,  1808;  married  Lois,  daughter  of 
Gideon  and  Amy  (Putnam)  Cram.  She  was  born  March  20,  1813  ;  died 
Sept.  n,  1893.  He  died  Nov.  14,  1865.  Children:  — 

1.  LOIS,  b.  March  16,  1836,  m.  William  N.  Ryerson  of  Lynde- 

borough.    (See  Ryerson  gen.) 

2.  AMY,  b.  April  21,  1838,  m.  Edward  H.  Spauldingof  Nashua, 

N.  H.,  Aug.  i,  1860.  d.  Dec.  2,  1860. 

3.  HARVEY,   b.   Sept.   20,   1840.     Killed  at  the  Battle  of  Bull 

Run.     (See  Chap.  X.) 

4.  JASON,  4- 

5.  ABBY  JANE,  b.  Feb.   21,   1846,  m.  Andy  Holt.     (See   Holt 

gen.) 

6.  EMERY,  -(- 

7.  GEORGIANNA,  b.  March  17,  1851,  m.  Harlan  P.  Bradford  of 

Lyndeborough.     (See  Bradford  gen.) 

8.  EUGENE,  b.  Sept.  30,   1855,  m.  Lizzie,  dau.   of  J.   King  of 

New  Boston,  N.  H.,  May  n,  1875.     Res.  in  Hudson,  N.  H. 

JASON  HOLT,  son  of  Harvey  and  Lois  (Cram)  Holt,  born  April  3, 
1843  ;  married  Rosie,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Sarah  (Stevens)  Young. 
She  was  born  July  20,  1848  ;  died  March  10,  1868.  He  has  served  on  the 
board  of  selectmen  a  number  of  years.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War. 
(See  Chap.  X.)  Child:  — 

i.  RosiE  E.,  b.  March  9,  1868,  m.  John  M.  Curtis,  son  of 
Kilburn  S.  and  Frances  (Holt)  Curtis  of  Lyndeborough, 
Sept.  n,  1894. 


7 78  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

EMERY  HOLT,  son  of  Harvey  and  Lois  (Cram)  Holt,  born  May  27, 
1848 ;  married  Ella  T.,  daughter  of  Adoniram  and  Maria  (Lakin)  Rus- 
sell of  Lyndeborough,  April  5,  1870.  She  was  born  May  7,  1852.  Chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  ADRIA  A.,  b.  Jan.   8,  1873,  m.  William  C.  Wilder.     (See 

Wilder  gen.) 

2.  BERTHA  E.,  b.  April  20,  1874,  d.  Nov.  8,  1892. 

3.  HARVEY  E.,  b.  July  3,  1876,  m.  Margaret  Polk  of  L,ynde- 

borough,  Jan.  i,  1902.     Child:  —  Herbert  H.,  b.  Nov.  22, 
1902. 

4.  ELMA  Iy.,  b.  July  18,  1877. 

5.  IDA  I,.,  b.  May  26,  1881,  m.  Albert  C.  Mason.     (See  Mason 
.     gen.) 

6.  FOREST  A.,  b.  July  13,  1882. 

7.  CHARLOTTE  M.,  b.  July  6,  1883,  d.  Feb.  2,  1884. 

8.  ANNIE  T.,  b.  Aug.  12,  1885. 

9.  RUTH  C.,  b.  May  21,  1887. 

10.  JASON  R.,  b.  May  19,  1891. 

HOI/T. 

CHARLES  HENRY  HOLT,  son  of  Abiel  and  Olivia  (Proctor)  Holt; 
born  Jan.  14,  1828,  at  Milford ;  married  first,  July  2,  1852,  Mary  A., 
daughter  of  Jonas  and  Mary  (Hall)  Wheeler  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was 
born  March  4,  1833 ;  died  Sept.  13,  1854.  He  married  second,  May  22, 
1857,  Harriet  E.,  daughter  of  John  and  Jemima  (Hopkins)  Lowe  of 
Dedham,  Mass.  She  was  born  Aug.  20,  1827  ;  died  Sept.  6,  1880.  He 
came  to  Lyndeborough  when  a  young  man  and  worked  for  his  brother 
Lorenzo  at  carriage  painting.  He  went  to  California  during  the  gold  ex- 
citement, in  1848,  going  "round  the  Horn"  in  a  whaling  ship,  and  re- 
turning "in  1850  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  While  there  he 
helped  build  the  first  framed  houses  in  San  Francisco.  He  was  a  car- 
penter by  trade,  and  owned  a  saw  mill  at  South  Lyndeborough.  He  was 
a  selectman  four  years,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  had  been  postmaster 
at  South  Lyndeborough  twenty-five  years.  He  was  always  interested  in 
military  matters  and  was  a  member  of  the  Lafayette  Artillery  Co.,  thirty- 
seven  years,  serving  as  lieutenant  eleven  years,  and  captain  thirteen 
years.  He  was  major  in  the  N.  H.  Militia  four  years.  (See  Chap.  VIII.) 
He  died  Jan.  31,  1897  at  South  Lyndeborough.  Child  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  JENNETTE  A.,  b.  Dec.  19,  1853,  m.  Sept.  28,  1879,  Tarrant 

M.  Beale  of  Boston,  Mass. 
Child  by  second  wife  :  — 

2.  EFFIE  A.,  b.  Nov.  23,  1868,  m.  Oct.  2,  1890,  Starr  B.  Cen- 

ter of  Wilton.     Children:  Carroll  H.,  Lesley  N. 

HOI/T. 
JOHN  FLETCHER  HOLT,  son  of   Benjamin   Holt;    born   Nov.    12, 


GENEALOGIES  779 

1807 ;  married  Nov.  27,  1834,  Abigail,  daughter  of  Andrew  and  Rebecca 
(Cram)  Harwood  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  b.  June  20,  1805  ;  died  Nov. 
24,  1869.  He  died  April  17,  1883.  He  was  one  of  the  board  of  selectmen 
for  several  years  and  held  other  town  office.  He  owned  and  lived  on  the 
farm  where  Emery  Holt  now  lives.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndebor- 
ough :  — 

1.  BENJAMIN  F.,  -f- 

2.  REBECCA,  b.  Dec.  25,  1839,  d.  Jan.  4,  1840. 

3.  JOHN  F.,  b.  April  17,  1842,  d.  May  10,  1842. 

BENJAMIN  F.  HOLT,  son  of  John  F.  and  Rebecca  (Harwood)  Holt; 
born  Nov.  7,  1837;  married  Sept.  18,  1862,  M.  Gertrude,  daughter  of 
Luke  A.  and  Mary  (Holt)  Lucas.  She  was  born  Feb.  5,  1842.  He  died 
May  12,  1889.  Child  :  — 

i.  FLORA  MAY. 

HOLT. 

ISRAEL  PORTER  HOLT,  born  Jan;  27,  1821  ;  married  Phebe  E. 

She  was  born  Nov.  18,  1814 ;  died  April  22,  1880.  He  died  Oct.  29,  1883. 
Israel  Porter  Holt,  Persons  S.  Holt,  Charles  H.  Holt  and  David  Kendall 
Holt  were  brothers.  Children :  — 

1.  MARTHA  J.,  b.  April  16,  1849,  m.  June  6,   1878,  Francis  A. 

Osborn  of  Cambridgeport,  Mass. 

2.  ISRAEL  H.,  b.  June  15,   1850,  m.  March  31,  1874,  Eva  L/. 

Freeman  of  Wilton. 

3.  EMER  F.,  b.  Oct.  23,  1851,  d.  Nov.  25,  1851. 

4.  GEORGIANNA  F.,  b.  Jan.  13,  1853,  m.  Sept.  25,  1873,  Charles 

P.  Wheeler  of  Amherst. 

5.  ELLA  M.,  b.  Oct.  21,  1854. 

PERSONS  S.  HOLT.  No  record  was  returned  of  the  dates  of  the 
births  and  deaths  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Persons  S.  Holt,  except  the  date  of 
Mrs.  Holt's  death,  Sept.  18,  1869.  Children  :  — 

1.  MARY  A.,  b.  Aug.   15,   1844,  m.  Owen  Varley  of  Wilton,  d. 

Sept.  7,  1869. 

2.  CATHERINE  B.,  b.  Aug.  13,  1847,  m.  Lawrence  Dillon  of 

L/awrence,  Mass. 

3.  HATTIE  S.,  b.  Feb.  19,  1851,  d.  July  31,  1868. 

4.  SARAH  F.,  b.  Oct.  n,  1852,  m.  Henry  J.  Pickett  of  Water- 

bury,  d.  May  13,  1888. 

5.  SUMNER  A.,   b.   May  19,   1861,   m.    Nov.  9,    1882,  Ella  J. 

Chapman  of  Waterbury. 

CHARLES  H.  HOLT,  born  in  Watertown,  Mass.;  married  first,  Oct. 
ii,  1836,  Anna,  daughter  of  Oliver  and  Anna  (Pierce)  Perham.  She  was 
born  May  20,  1812 ;  died  Jan.  3,  1873.  He  married  second,  Hannah  J., 
daughter  of  Brackley  and  Sarah  (Butterfield)  Rose.  She  was  born  May 


780  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

31,  1827.  He  died  Jan.  27,  1888.  He  was  a  farmer  and  nursery  man,  and 
owned  a  large  farm  in  Perham  Corner,  now  occupied  by  his  son  William 
P.  He  was  selectman  for  many  years  and  was  influential  in  town  affairs. 
Child  by  first  wife  :  — 

I.    WILLIAM   P.,  ~h 

WILLIAM  P.  HOLT,  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Anna  (Perham)  Holt; 
born  Oct.  7,  1840;  married  Sept.  19,  1881,  Mary  E.  Woodbury  of  New 
Boston.  She  was  born  April  14,  1844.  Children  :  — 

1.  AUSTIN,  b.  May  3,  1886. 

2.  OLIVER,  b.  Aug.  14,  1887. 

HOLT. 

ELI  HOLT  and  Personela,  his  wife,  lived  for  a  time  on  the  Lucas 
place.  It  is  presumed  they  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Temple,  as  the 
two  older  children  are  recorded  as  born  there.  Children,  all  but  two 
born  at  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  at  Temple  May  20,  1814. 

2.  HARRIET  A.,  b.  at  Temple  Oct.  20,  1815. 

3.  ADALINE  M.,  b.  April  12,  1817. 

4.  PAMELIA,  b.  Feb.  18,  1819. 

5.  SARAH  J.,  b.  Feb.  14,  1821. 

6.  HANNAH,  b.  June  3,  1822. 

7.  CLARISSA,  b.  Feb.  19,  1824,  d.  March  8,  1824. 

8.  GEORGE,  b.  Sept.  12,  1825. 

9.  PHEBE  L,.,  b.  Oct.  20,  1827. 

10.  HARRIET  O.,  b.  Aug.  16,  1829. 

11.  JOANNA,  b.  Aug.  23,  1831. 

12.  ANSTIS,  b.  Dec.  9,  1833. 

HOLT. 

STEPHEN  DEXTER  HOLT,  son  of  Stephen  C.  and  Mary  (Cragin) 
Holt;  born  at  Andover,  Mass.,  July  22,  1822;  married  Nov.  29,  1849, 
Joanna,  daughter  of  Franklin  and  Mary  (Spaulding)  Hadley.  She  was 
born  June  20,  1831.  He  died  April  25,  1876.  He  lived  at  one  time  on  the 
Harwood  place,  and  earlier  on  the  French  place,  north  of  Badger  Pond. 
He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Francestown  in  1859.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X.)  His  widow  resides  in  Mont  Vernon. 
Children  :  — 

1.  CHARLES  D.,  b.  in  Francestown,  Jan.  25,  1851,  d.  in  Mont 

Vernon,  Oct.  4,  1881. 

2.  FRANCES  A.,  b.  March  17,  1854. 

3.  and  4.  AUGUSTUS  and  AUGUSTINE  (twins),  b.  Aug.  14,  1856. 

Both  d.  Nov.  28,  1856. 


GENEALOGIES  781 

5.  GEORGE  F.,  b.  in  L/yndeborough,  Aug.  6,  1859,  res.  in  Mont 
Vernon. 

HOUSTON. 

The  Houstons  were  a  prominent  and  influential  family  in  the  early 
history  of  the  town.  But  few  records  can  be  obtained  and  the  family  is 
extinct  in  Lyndeborough.  Samuel  Houston  was  evidently  the  first  of 
the  name  to  come  to  Lyndeborough.  He  settled  in  the  northwest  part 
of  the  town.  The  site  is  now  marked  by  an  ancient  growth  of  Lombardy 
poplars.  He  was  born  Feb.  29,  1745,  and  died  May  23,  1824.  The  family 
were  earnest  supporters  of  the  Congregational  Church,  and  both  Samuel 
and  his  son  John  were  deacons.  He  was  selectman  one  or  more  terms. 
About  the  year  1840,  the  whole  family  removed  to  Denmark,  Iowa, 
where  their  descendants  now  reside.  In  the  town  records  is  the  record 
of  the  birth  of  Samuel,  son  of  Dea.  Samuel  and  Rachel  Houston.  It 
would  seem  that  he  was  married  twice  and  perhaps  three  times,  for  after 
the  death  of  Rachel  Houston  the  rest  of  the  children  are  recorded  as 
sons  and  daughters  of  Samuel  Houston  and  Mary,  his  wife.  Rachel 
Houston  died  Nov.  19,  1775.  There  is  a  record  of  the  marriage  of 
Samuel  Houston  and  Hannah  Woodward  of  Francestown,  April  i,  1817. 
She  was  probably  a  daughter  of  Ephraim  Woodward  of  Lyndeborough. 
Children  of  Dea.  Samuel  Houston  and  Rachel,  his  wife  :  — 

1.  SAMUEL,  b.  May  28,  1771. 

2.  JOSEPH,  b.  Oct.  ii,  1775. 

Children  of  Dea.  Samuel  Houston  and  Mary,  his  wife  :  — 

3.  CALEB,  + 

4.  RACHEL,   b.   Oct.   22,    1779,  m.   Eleazer  Woodward.     (See 

Woodward  gen.) 

5.  SARAH,  b.  Sept.  n,  1781,  d.  July  10,  1785. 

6.  L/EVI,  b.  July  9,  1783,  d.  June  29,  1785. 

7.  IRA,  + 

8.  JOHN,  + 

CALEB  HOUSTON,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Houston,  born  Jan.  24, 

1778 ;  married  Nancy .     She  died  Aug.  7,  1807.     Children  recorded 

as  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  NANCY  H.,  b.  Nov.  3,  1804. 

2.  RODNEY,  b.  Dec.  29,  1805. 

3.  GEORGE  L.,  b.  Aug.  3,  1807. 

IRA  HOUSTON,  son  of  Dea.  Samuel  and  Mary  Houston,  born  June  9, 
1785;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Elizabeth  (Rand) 
Epps.  She  was  born  April  3,  1791  ;  died  May  9,  1873.  He  died  Feb.  6, 
1872.  Children  recorded  as  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Sept.   21,  1811,  m.  Jason  Wilson.     She  d. 

Aug.  n,  1 88 1. 

2.  MARY,  b.  July  21,  1813,  d.  May  30,  1816. 


782  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

3.  SAMUEL,  b.  Nov.  n,  1815,  m.  June,  1848,  Catharine  Hornby. 

4.  MARY,  b.  March  5,  1818,  m.  Nov.  3,  1842,  Francis  Blake. 

5.  HANNAH,  b.  March  28,  1820,  m.  Sept.  9,  1840,  Wm.  Davis. 

She  d.  Oct.  9,  1840. 

6.  RACHEL,  b.  July  27,  1822.  m.  June,  1847,  James  Hornby. 

7.  JOSEPH,  b.  Nov.  26,  1824,  d.  Sept.  u,  1826. 

8.  IRA,  b.   May  n,  1826,  m.  October,   1856,  Olivia  P.  Porter. 

He  d.  May  17,  1889. 

9.  ANN,  b.  June  15,   1828,  m.  November,   1849,   Gustavus  B. 

Bracket.     Shed.  March  17,  1886. 

10.  RWOENA,  b.  Nov.    ii,   1831,  m.  May,    1858,  Ebenezer  T. 
L,everett. 

11.  OLIVE,  (Twin),  b.  April  6,  1834,  d.  Oct.  6,  1834. 

12.  SARAH,  (Twin),  b.  April  6,  1834,  d.  Sept.  17,  1834. 

DBA.  JOHN  HOUSTON,  son  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Houston,  b.  June 
5,  1787;  married  Zervia  Field  of  Amherst.  She  was  born  Nov.  i,  1784. 
He  died  Feb.  26,  1856.  Children  :  — 

1.  ALBERT  F.,  b.  Jan,  15,  1812,  d.  Sept.  25,  1835. 

2.  LAURA,  b.  Aug.   12,  1813,  m.  William  Davis.     She  d.  Oct. 

13,  1887. 

3.  ABIGAIL,  b.   April  2,    1815,  d.   Jan.    31,    1879,   m.  George 

Shedd. 

4.  SARAH,  b.  July  13,  1821,  m.  E.  Warren  Henderson. 

5.  ZERVIA,  m.  Peter  B.  Bell,  d.  May  31,  1874. 
5.  JOHN  JR.,  b.  Dec.  15,  1823,  m.  Maria  Sturgis. 

7,  JOSEPH,  b.  Sept.  13,  1826,  m.  Sarah  L.  Bell. 

8.  MARY  J.,  b.   May  28,  1829,  m.  Joseph  E.   Ingalls.     She  d. 

Jan.  7,  1881. 

HOWARD. 

SILAS  HOWARD  came  to  Lyndeborough  soon  after  the  close  of  the 
Revolutionary  War  and  settled  in  the  southeast  part  of  the  town.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Continental  Army  and  drew  a  pension  in  his  later 
years.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Westford,  Mass.~  Nothing  but 
a  cellar  hole  marks  the  spot  where  he  lived.-  He  married  Rebecca  Reed, 
probably  of  Westford,  Mass.  He  died  in  1840,  aged -80  years.  They  had 
nine  children,  of  whom  the  records  are  very  imperfect.  .Children  :  —  . 

1.  SILAS  JR., 

2.  SAMUEL.  + 

3.  JACOB,  b.  March  3,   1795,  m.  Oct.    10,   1824,  Rachel,  dau. 

of  Isaac  and  Olive  (Hopkins)  Blanchard  of  Milford.     Res. 
in  Milford  and  d.  there,  May  5,  1873. 

4.  JOSEPH, 


GENEALOGIES  783 

5.  JOHN, 

6.  BENJAMIN, 

7.  MARTHA,  m.  Samuel  Hutchinson. 

8.  ABIGAIL,  m. Blanchard. 

9.  RACHEL,  m.  Allen  Dodge  of  Mt.  Vernon. 

SAMUEL  HOWARD.  Samuel,  John  and  Benjamin,  sons  of  Silas 
and  Rebecca  (Reed)  Howard,  were  soldiers  in  the  War  of  1812,  and 
Samuel  was  the  only  one  of  the  three  that  lived  to  return.  He  served 
three  years  and  four  months  and  was  honorably  discharged  with  the 
rank  of  lieutenant.  He  was  born  in  Lyndeborough  in  1789,  and  died  in 
Milford,  June  26,  1861 ;  married  first,  June  IT,  1821,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Harkness)  Burns.  She  was  born  in  Milford  in 
1781  ;  died  in  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  7,  1821 ;  second,  Oct.  28,  1824,  Sally  A., 
daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Sally  (Clark)  Ames,  born  March  15,  1802  ;  died 
Dec.  28,  1868.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  WILLIAM  WELLS,  + 

2.  ALBERT  L.,  + 

3.  SARAH  A.,  b.  July  19,  1830,  m.  first,  Lemuel  Davis ;  second, 

Charles  O.  Davis.     She  d.  March  22,  1866. 

4.  MARIA  T.,  b.  July  24,  1832.     Res.  in  Milford. 

5.  SYBIL  F.,  b.   Nov.   n,  1834,  m.  Levi  H.,  son  of  David  K. 

and  Alice  (Harwood)  Holt,  June  6,  1860.     Res.  in  Milford. 

6.  SAMUEL  A.,  b.  Sept.  27,  1836,  d.  Dec.  n,  1899,  m.  Oct.  20, 

1862,  Mary  F.,   dau.   of  Silas  and  Clara  (Lyon)   Dale  of 
Roxbury,  Mass. 

WILLIAM  WELLS  HOWARD,  son  of  Samuel  A.  and  Sally  A.  (Ames) 
Howard,  born  Oct.  18,  1826 ;  married  Nov.  28,  1850,  Mary  Ann,  daughter 
of  Rufus  and  Ann  (Blanchard)  Crosby,  born  in  Milford,  June  24,  1825- 
Mr.  Howard  filled  many  positions  of  trust  while  a  citizen  of  Lyndebor- 
ough, and  was  highly  respected  by  all  who  knew  him.  He  was  selectman 
five  years  and  was  closely  identified  with  the  best  interests  of  the  town. 
His  farm  was  "  set  off"  into  Milford  in  the  sixties  and  that  town  has 
honored  him  with  the  highest  offices  it  could  give.  Children,  all  born  in 
Lyndeborough  but  eldest :  — 

1.  MARIETTA  A.,  b.  in  Roxbury,  Mass.,  .Feb.  .3,  1851,  d.  in 

Lyndeborough,  Jan.  24,  1852. 

2.  ALONZO  W.,  b.  June  28,  1853,  m.  Nov.   i,  1893,  Sadie  J., 

dau.  of  James  C.  and  Mary  A.  (Hodsdon)  Moore.     Chil- 
dren :  Clarence  W.,  Helen  M. 

3.  WILLIAM  R.,  b.  Jan.  16,  1857,  m.  Feb.  3,  1881,  Lizzie  R., 

dau.  of  James  W.  and  Rebecca  S.   (Crosby)  Anderson  ol 
Milford.     Child  :  —  Wells  A. 

ALBERT  L.  HOWARD,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sally  A.  (Ames)  Howard  ; 
born  in  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  23,  1828 ;  married  first,  Feb.  i,  1852,  Sarah 


784  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

A.,  daughter  of  James  W.  and  Esther  C.  (Cash)  Norcross  of  Newton, 
Mass.  She  was  born  July  5,  1830;  died  May  i,  1896.  He  married  second, 
Oct.  22,  1897,  Sarah  M.,  daughter  of  Josiah  M.  and  Maria  (Cash)  Parker 
of  Amherst.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  EMMA  F.,  b.  May  4,  1854,  d.  Nov.  27,  1864. 

2.  ALBERT  C.,  b.  Oct.  2,  1856,  m.  Oct.  7,  1885,  Stella  M.,  dau. 

of  Jason  L.  and  Frances  E.  (Brown)  Coffin  of  Athol,  Mass. 
Child  :  Lillian  R. 

3.  ANNA  E.,  b.  Oct.  13,  1863,  m.  Oct.   13,   1885,  Nathan   F. 

Brown  of  Milford. 

4.  LAURA  F.,  b.  Dec.  12,  1866,  m.  April  10,   1890,  William  L. 

Carr  of  Hillsborough. 

HUTCHINSON. 

EBENEZER  HUTCHINSON,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Katherine  Hutch- 
inson;  born  in  Saugus,  Mass.,  Aug.  28,  1764;  married  Thamazan  Griffin 
Dec.  2,  1784.  She  was  born  on  Cape  Ann,  Mass.,  Oct.  3,  1760;  died  in 
1856.  He  built  a  log  house  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  John  H.  Good- 
rich, and  lived  there  until  1833,  when  he  removed  to  Hancock,  N.  H., 
thence  to  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  where  he  died  Feb.  5,  1854.  To  them  were 
born  eleven  children,  all  but  one  in  the  log  house  at  North  Lyndebor- 
ough : — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  June,  1785. 

2.  EBENEZER,  b.  Dec.  25,   1787,  m.  Betsey  Carter,  d.  Oct.  9, 

1855- 

3.  LUCY,  b.  Oct.,  1789,  d.  March,  1843. 

4.  BENJAMIN,  b.  March,  1792. 

5.  REV.  WILLIAM,  b.  April  4,  1794,  d.  April,  1842. 

6.  DANIEL,  b.  Oct.,  1796. 

7.  BRYANT,  b.  March,  1799. 

8.  SUSANNA,  b.  Sept.,  1800. 

9.  JOSEPH,  b.  July,  1803,  m.  Esther  Ide,  d.  Sept.,  1847. 

10.  HARRIET  O.,  m.  Nehemiah  Rand.     (See  Rand  gen.) 

11.  ARNOLD  B.,  b.  April  17,  1808,  m.  Martha  Holt,  June,   10, 

1835,  d.  July  30,  1888. 

HUTCHINSON. 

CHARLES  LE  ROY  HUTCHINSON ;  born  in  Milford,  Feb.  18,  1837 ; 
died  Dec.  30,  1889  ;  married  Aug.  19,  1865,  Mary  R.  Davis  of  Milford. 
She  was  born  Jan.  23,  1841.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See 
Chap.  X.)  Resided  in  Perham  Corner.  Children  :  — 

1.  JosiE  R.,  b.  in  Wilton,  Nov.  19,  1866. 

2.  OSCAR  L.;  born  in  Milford,  July  4,   1868,  m.  first,  March  5, 

1890,  Anabelle  S.,  dau.  of  Granville  S.  and  Harriet  (Whit- 


GENEALOGIES  785 

temore)  Hill.  She  was  b.  Feb.  22,  1866,  d.  March  8,  1891  ; 
m.  second,  Dec.  31,  1898,  Nellie  M.,  dau.  of  Gorham  G. 
and  Melinda  (Thomas)  Jones.  She  was  b.  June  9,  1869, 
res.  in  North  Graf  ton,  Mass. 

3.  MORTON  F.,  b.  in  Milford,  March  27,  1870. 

4.  GEORGE  T.,  b.  in  Milford,  April  23,  1872. 

5.  HARRY  E.»  b.  in  Lyndeborough  May  18,  1874,  m.  Nov.  26, 

1901,  Elsie  B.,  dau.  of  Eli  J.  and  Elsie  (Daniels)  Curtis,  b. 
Dec.  18,  1878. 

6.  SAMUEL  T.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  10,  1876. 

7.  ROMA  B.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  3,  1886. 

JAQUITH. 

CYRUS  JAQUITH,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Ruth  (Wright)  Jaquith ;  born 
Aug.  15,  1815  ;  married  first,  Arissa,  daughter  of  John  and  I/ydia  (Dodge) 
Sleeper  of  Francestown,  Nov.  6,  1839 ;  married  second,  Mrs.  Cynthia  S. 
Woodward  of  Lyndeborough.  He  removed  to  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he 
died  March  9,  1896.  Children,  all  by  first  wife,  and  born  in  Milford :  — 

1.  JOHN  M.,  b.  Oct.  18,  1840. 

2.  HARRIET  O.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1842,  m.  July  6,  1874,  Charles  W. 

Norris  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  res.  in  Lowell. 

3.  CYRUS  E.,  b,  June  5,  1845. 

JENSON. 

LORENZ  P.  JENSON,  b.  Sept.  12,  1846,  in  Germany,  married  Annette 
A.  Worman  of  Sweden,  Aug.  13,  1871.  She  was  born  June  u,  1851.  He 
lived  in  South  Lyndeborough  a  few  years  and  removed  to  California.  He 
was  a  carpenter  and  boat  builder.  Children  :  — 

1.  CAROLINE  E.,   b.    in   Boston   May  19,  1872,  d.  March  18, 

1889. 

2.  ANNETTE  H.,    b.    in   Boston,  Dec.  24,   1873,  d.    Nov.    25, 

1890. 

3.  CLARA  C.,  b.  in  Boston  Dec.  13,  1875.  ' 

4.  ANNA  M.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough  Nov.  n,  1877. 

5.  ALEXANDER,     b.  in  Lyndeborough  Jan.  6,   1881,    d.  Feb. 

16,  1881. 

6.  ALFRED,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  June  20,  1882. 

7.  CHESTER  L.,  born  in  Lyndeborough  Sept.  19,  1885. 

JOHNSON. 

JOHN  JOHNSON.  But  little  can  be  learned  of  the  Johnson  family, 
from  which  Johnson's  Corner  takes  its  name.  The  family  has  been  ex- 
tinct in  town  for  many  years,  and  the  writer  has  been  unable  to  locate 
any  of  the  descendants.  John  Johnson  and  his  wife  Mary  came  to 


786  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

Lyndeborough  from  Lynnfield,  Mass.,  and  settled  on  land  now  the  prop- 
erty of  Aaron  Russell.  With  him"  came  his  sons  Adam  and  James. 
James  settled  on  the  lot  west  of  his  father's  land,  where  W.  H.  Bowen 
lives,  and  Adam  on  the  land  where  Willis  Perham  formerly  lived.  Chil- 
dren born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  OSGOOD,  b.  May  23,   1772,  m.  Betsey .     Child,  born  in 

Lyndeborough:  Betsey,  b.  Feb.  22,  1797. 

2.  DAVID,  b.  Aug.  16,  1774. 

3.  HANNAH,  b.  Feb.  18,  1777. 

ADAM  JOHNSON,  the  eldest  son,  married  Abigail,  daughter  of  Jere- 
miah and  Eunice  (Taylor)  Carleton.  They  had  seven  children,  viz., 
Lydia,  John,  Adam,  Betty,  Hannah,  Mary  and  Lucy.  These  were  all  bap- 
tized Aug.  6,  1769.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Continental  Army,  and  died 
or  was  killed  while  in  the  service.  He  was  probably  born  at  Reading, 
Mass.  His  widow  married  Ensign  David  Putnam. 

JAMES  JOHNSON  and  Hannah,  his  wife,  had  three  children  :  — 

1.  JAMES,  b.  in  Falmouth,  Mass. 

2.  JASPER,  b.  in  Lyndeborough. 

3.  JOHN,  b.  Aug.  24,  1758,  in  Lyndeborough. 

John,  James  and  Adam  Johnson  were  grantees  of  the  town.  For  the 
Revolutionary  War  record  of  the  Johnson  family  see  Chap.  VII. 

JOHNSON. 

FRANCIS  D.  JOHNSON  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Allenstown,  N. 
H.,  in  1826.  He  was  born  May  9,  1793;  died  Feb.  4,  1879;  married 
Mehitable,  daughter  of  Elisha  and  Betsey  (Bartlett)  Haynes  of  Epsom.. 
She  was  born  Jan.  22,  1800,  and  died  Aug.  31,  1859.  Children,  six  born  in 
Lyndeborough  :  — 

i.  JOSEPH  A.,  -|- 

i.  ISAAC  A.,  b.  May  9,  1822.     Rem.  to  Massachusetts. 

3.  WATERMAN  B.,  b.  March  29,  1825,  d.  Oct.  15,  1856. 

4.  SARAH  E.,   b.   Nov.   15,    1827,  m.  William  H.   Haynes  of 

New  London  and  removed  to  Wisconsin. 

5.  FRANCIS  D.,  b.  May  3,  1830. 

6.  JOHN  D.,  b.  March  4,  1833.     Rem.  to  Dakota. 

7.  CHARLES  H.,  b.  March  6,  1836.     Rem.  to  Michigan. 

8.  CHRISTIANNA,  b.  Dec.  25,  1838,  d.  Aug.  26,  1860. 

9.  FREEMAN  G.,  b.  Aug.  3,  1842.     Rem.  to  Michigan. 

JOSEPH  A.  JOHNSON,  son  of  Francis  D.  and  Mehitable  (Haynes) 
Johnson,  born  Dec.  2,  1819 ;  married  Mary  L.,  daughter  of  Jotham  and 
Lucinda  (Sargent)  Stephenson,  Nov.  16,  1848.  She  was  born  March  12, 
1830.  He  has  been  elected  to  many  offices  of  trust  in  the  town,  and  has 
always  taken  great  interest  in  its  material  welfare.  He  has  been  justice 
of  the  peace  for  thirty  years,  and  has  that  integrity  of  character  which 


GENEALOGIES  787 

wins  the  confidence  of  the  community  in  which  he  lives.  In  his  younger 
days  he  took  great  interest  in  military  matters  and  is  the  only  surviving 
commander  of  the  -jih  Co.  of  the  22d  Regiment  of  infantry,  popularly 
known  as  the  "Slam-bang"  Co.  He  resides  in  South  Lyudeborough 
village.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  EMMA  E.,  b.  Oct.  14,   1850,  m.  Jacob  Smith.     (See  Smith 

gen.) 

2.  IDA  B.,  b.  July  4,  1859,  m.  Frank  J.  Bishop.     (See  Bishop 

gen.) 

3.  INA    E.,    b.   March  24,    1854,  m.   Charles   E.   Dollaway  of 

Mincer,  Ind.,  November,  1875. 

JONES. 

The  Jones  family  of  Lyndeborough  is  of  Welsh  origin,  descendants  of 
Nathaniel  and  Rachel  (Bradford)  Jones,  who  came  with  a  Welsh  colony 
and  settled,  probably  in  Gloucester,  Mass.  But  they  are  on  record  in 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1704.  That  year  Nathaniel  married  Rachel  Bradford. 
They  had  six  children  of  record.  William,  the  second  son,  settled  in 
Ipswich,  where  he  acquired  considerable  wealth.  He  was  a  "  felt  maker  " 
and  made  the  three-cornered  felt  hats  then  in  fashion.  He  was  converted 
under  the  preaching  of  the  celebrated  Whitefield,  and  often  entertained 
that  great  divine  at  his  home  in  Ipswich.  He  was  very  devout  and  was 
often  called  Whitefield's  "New  Light."  He  always  dressed  with  scrupu- 
lous care,  in  velvet  coat  and  knee  breeches,  silver  shoe  and  knee  buckles, 
and  always  carried  a  gold-headed  cane.  By  endorsing  the  paper  of  a 
friend,  who  proved  to  be  a  rogue,  he  lost  most  of  his  wealth,  and  was 
limited  in  means  in  his  old  age.  He  was  born  Oct.  31,  1707;  married 
Joanna  Lord,  Oct.  13,  1728.  He  died  November,  1782.  They  had  15 
children. 

DR.  BENJAMIN  JONES  was  the  fourteenth  child  of  William  and 
Joanna  (Lord)  Jones,  and  was  the  first  of  that  name  to  come  to  Lynde- 
borough. He  was  born  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  Oct.  18,  1751;  married  Eliza- 
beth Cleaves  of  Ipswich,  Mass.  She  was  born  Oct.  20,  1752  ;  died  June  6, 
1819.  He  died  Jan.  12,  1819.  He  was  a  physician  and  a  very  skilful 
surgeon,  and  was  the  first  M.  D.  to  come  to  Lyndeborough.  He  came 
Dec.  18,  1772,  and  settled  where  H.  H.  Joslin  now  lives,  but  some  time 
after  built  the  brick  house  where  George  Spalding  now  lives  and  re- 
moved there.  He  had  a  large  practice  and  took  great  interest  in  the  wel- 
fare of  the  town  and  of  the  church.  He  was  a  man  of  great  influence  in 
the  community,  and  in  connection  with  his  extensive  medical  practice, 
he  carried  on  his  large  farm,  hiring  much  of  the  labor.  He  was  town 
treasurer,  1792-95,  and  again  in  1805.  He  died  very  suddenly  of  heart 
disease.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough:  — 

1.  BENJAMIN,  -j- 

2.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Dec.  18,  1776,  m.  Nehemiah  Boutwell. 

3.  JOANNA,  b.   Jan.  27,    1779,   m.  James   Crombie.      Rem.   to 

Francestown. 


788  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

4.  MARY  C.,  b.  Jan.  20,  1781,  m. Cleaves. 

5.  HULDAH,  b.  March  26,  1783,  m.  Royal  Tupper. 

6.  JOSEPH,  -|- 

7.  NATHANIEL,  b.  June  22,  1787,  d.  Oct.  17,  1811. 

8.  WILLIAM,  + 

9.  SARAH,  b.  March  5,  1792,  d.  March  31,  1795. 

10.  NATHAN,  b.   April  25,    1794.     Was  a  physician  and  prac- 
ticed his  profession  in  L,yndeborough  from  1828  until  1834, 
when  he  removed  to  Wenham,  Mass.     He  died  March  n, 
1860.     He  lived  where  Herman  A.  Walker  now  lives.     He 
sold  this  place  and  his  practice  to  Dr.  Israel  Herrick. 

BENJAMIN  JONES,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Cleaves)  Jones, 
born  May  18,  1774;  married  Dec.  13,  1797,  Chloe  Farrington  of  Lynde- 
borough.  She  was  born  May  25,  1772  ;  died  Sept.  4,  1830.  He  died  Feb. 
20,  1846.  Children  :  — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  Dec.  21,  1798,  m.  Peter  Clark.     (See  Clark  gen.) 

2.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Sept.  7,  1800,  m.  Joseph  Woodward,  d.  June 

i,  1836. 

3.  SAMUEL,  + 

4.  ABIGAIL,  b.  August,  1804,  m.  Charles  Parker.     (See  Parker 

gen.) 

5.  JOANNA,  b.  Nov.  27,  1806,  m.  Thorpe  Fisher  and  removed 

to  Salem,  Mass.,  d.  Oct.  4,  1855. 

6.  BENJAMIN,  b.  Nov.  26.  1808.     Rem.  to  Iowa,  d.  in  1880. 

7.  NATHANIEL,  + 

SAMUEL  JONES,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Chloe  (Farrington)  Jones, 
born  July  21,  1802  ;  married  first,  April  10,  1828,  Olive,  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam  and  Sarah  (Barren)  Clark.  She  was  born  Aug.  5,  1805  '•>  died  Dec.  17, 
1841 ;  second,  April  8,  1848,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sally 
(Clark)  Goodrich.  She  was  born  Nov.  24,  1805;  died  Jan.  9,  1869.  He 
died  July  23,  1868.  He  was  a  very  influential  citizen  of  the  town  and  at 
one  time  or  another  was  honored  by  about  all  the  offices  the  town  could 
bestow.  He  was  very  popular  with  all,  but  especially  with  the  young. 
"Uncle  Sam"  was  the  friend  and  comrade  of  every  boy  and  girl  with 
whom  he  became  acquainted.  Always  genial,  always  merry  and  kind 
arid  sympathetic  with  all,  to  meet  with  him  was  a  pleasure. 

He  and  his  son,  Clark  B.,  were  digging  in  the  sandbank  near  Badger 
Pond  when  they  unearthed  several  skeletons  of  Indians  buried  there. 
Clark  Jones,  says  his  brother,  William  A.,  presented  the  most  complete 
one  to  Francestown  Academy,  where  he  was  a  pupil  at  the  time.  Mr. 
Jones  died  very  suddenly  one  evening  while  milking  the  cows.  Children 
by  first  wife  :  — 

i.  WILLIAM  A.,  + 


GENEALOGIES  789 

2.  CHI.OE  A.,  b.  Feb.  27,  1831,  m.  William  J.  Herrick.     (See 

Herrick  gen.) 

3.  CLARK  B.,  + 

4.  GEORGE  T.,  -f- 

By  second  wife  :  — 

5.  SARAH  O.,    b.    Feb.    18,   1846,  m.   James   O.    Fiske.     (See 

Fiske  gen.) 

DR.  WILLIAM  A.  JONES,  son  of  Samuel  and  Olive  (Clark)  Jones  ; 
born  Jan.  19,  1829;  married  Feb.  28,  1855,  Harriet  J.,  daughter  of  Moses 
and  Nancy  A.  (Haley)  Chenery.  She  was  born  Oct.  12,  1834;  died 
March  10,  1897.  He  died  Dec.  18,  1880.  He  was  educated  at  Frances- 
town  Academy  and  in  the  schools  of  Lyndeborough.  He  graduated  from 
the  Western  College  of  Homeopathy  at  Cleveland,  O.,  in  1854.  He  com- 
menced the  practice  of  medicine  in  Wilton,  and  was  a  resident  of  that 
town  for  a  few  years  after  his  marriage.  Then  he  came  to  Lyndebor- 
ough.  He  had  the  qualifications  for  a  good  physician,  and  was  success- 
ful from  the  start.  When  Dr.  Herrick  retired  he  had  most  of  the  prac- 
tice in  this  and  adjoining  towns,  and  he  was  the  last  resident  physician 
of  Lyndeborough.  He  took  a  lively  interest  in  the  business  affairs  of  the 
town  and  in  its  social  welfare,  and  was  one  of  the  promoters  of  the 
Franklin  Library.  His  wife  was  a  woman  of  much  refinement,  and  was 
very  helpful  in  the  social  affairs  of  the  town. 

Dr.  Jones  was  superintendent  of  schools  for  some  years,  representative 
to  the  General  Court  in  1871,  town  clerk  seven  years  and  justice  of  the 
peace  twenty  years ;  was  vice-president  of  the  N.  H.  Medical  Society  and 
a  member  from  its  beginning.  He  was  the  enrolling  officer  of  Lynde- 
borough  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  When  he  removed  to  Wilton, 
in  1871,  he  leased  the  Whiting  house  for  three  years.  He  retired  from 
practice  in  1880.  Children :  — 

1.  MINA  O.,  b.  Oct.  5,  1856,  in  Wilton,  m.  Oct.  5,  1881,  Charles 

N.  Grey  of  Wilton.  He  d.  Sept.  10,  1889  ;  m.  second, 
March  18,  1896,  Amos  A.  Wyman  of  Hillsborough,  res.  at 
Hillsborough  Bridge.  Child:  Lena. 

2.  MYRTA  M.,  b.  June  7,  1859,  m.  April  26,   1899,  Hadley  F. 

Higgins  of  Manchester,  res.  in  Dorchester,  Mass. 

3.  L,UUE  C.,  b.  July  31,   1861,  m.  Oct.  31,   1885,  Charles  A. 

Burns  of  Wilton.     She  d.  Aug.  26,  1896. 

CLARK  B.  JONES,  son  of  Samuel  and  Olive  (Clark)  Jones;  born  Feb. 
28,  1834 ;  married  May  20,  1857,  Miriam  M.  Holt,  daughter  of  David 
and  Bethiah  (Wilson)  Holt  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  March  2, 
1835.  Resides  at  Maplewood,  Mass.  Children  :  — 

1.  FRANK  W.,  b.  Feb.  28,   1858,  m.  Nov.  21,   1888,  Lucy  M. 
Simmons  of  Brewer,  Me. 

2.  HARRY  E.,  b.  Dec.  25,  1859. 

3.  FRED  C.,  b.  Aug.  12,  1867. 


790  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

GEORGE  T.  JONES,  son  of  Samuel  and  Olive  (Clark)  Jones,  born 
Nov.  30,  1840 ;  married  Feb.  4,  1868,  Josephine  H.  Farwell  of  Milford ; 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X. )  Children  :  — 

1.  A  daughter,  b.  May  i,  1869,  d.  May  i,  1869. 

2.  KATIE  S.,  b.  May  31,  1878. 

NATHANIEL,  JONES,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Chloe  (Farrington)  Jones; 
born  Nov.  15,  1811 ;  married  May  28,  1841,  Ann  P.  Perkins  of  Alfred,  Me. 
She  was  born  Jan.  28,  1815;  died  in  Marlborough,  Mass.,  Jan.  21,  1865. 
He  died  in  Natick,  Mass.,  Dec.  28,  1878.  He  lived  for  a  number  of  years 
where  Herman  A.  Walker  now  lives.  He  removed  to  Marlboro,  Mass., 
and  lived  there  a  short  time  when  he  removed  to  Natick,  Mass.,  where  he 
died.  Children  :  — 

1.  SARAH  A.,  b.  in  Boston,  July  2,    1843,   m.   Feb.  7,   1865, 

Joseph  Richard  of  Sudbury,  Mass. 

2.  MARY  E.,  b.  in  Boston,  Oct.  12,   1847,    m-  Dec.  22>   ^69, 

John  D.  Wade  of  Natick,  Mass. 

3.  EDWARD  B.,  b.  in  I^yndeborough  July  12,  1850,  m.  in  1872, 

Nellie  Childs  at  Woonsocket,  R.  I. 

4.  FANNIE  B.,  b.  in  L,yndeborough  Oct.  14,  1853,  m.  Dec.  20, 

1875,  Charles  A.  Goodnow  of  Natick,  Mass. 

5.  JAMES  C.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough  March  21,   1856,  d.  in   La 

Salle,  111.,  Sept.  7,  1881,  from  injuries  received  in  trying  to 
prevent  a  team  from  running  away. 

JOSEPH  JONES,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Cleaves)  Jones  ; 
born  March  29,  1785  ;  married  Sept.  n,  1811,  Ann  Richardson.  She  was 
born  Aug.  19,  1788;  died  May  19,  1827;  married  second,  Sept.  18,  1827, 
Mrs.  Clarissa  W.  Page.  She  d.  Feb.  16,  1844.  Children  by  first  wife :  — 

1.  JOHN,  b.  Sept.  8,  1812,  d.  June  22,  1889. 

2.  ELIZA,  b.  May  14,  1815,  d.  March  26,  1819. 

3.  JOSEPH,  b.  Sept.  2,  1818,  d.  July  1884. 

4.  WILLIAM,  b.  Aug.  24,  1821,  d.  July  5,  1824. 

5.  BENJAMIN  CLEAVES,  -|- 

6.  SARAH  A.,  b.  May  4,  1827,  d.  June  18,  1827. 
Children  by  second  wife :  — 

7.  CLARISSA  A.,  b.  Nov.  9,  1828. 

8.  ISAIAH  W.,  b.  Nov.  24,  1830,  d.  1882. 

BENJAMIN  CLEAVES  JONES,  son  of  Joseph  and  Ann  (Richardson) 
Jones ;  born  March  30,  1824 ;  married  June  14,  1860,  Augusta  L.  Cleaves 
of  Mont  Vernon.  He  removed  to  Chicago,  111.,  in  1855,  and  died  April 
23,  1885.  Children  :  Frank  C.,  Alfred  L/.,  Clarissa  A. 

DEA.  WILLIAM  JONES,  son  of  Dr.  Benjamin  and  Elizabeth  (Cleaves) 
Jones;  born  July  14,  1789;  married  first,  June  4,  1815,  Priscilla,  daughter 
of  Rev.  Sewall  Goodrich.  She  died  Jan.  2,  1837;  married  second,  Nov. 


GENEALOGIES  791 

20,  1838,  Eliza  N.  Anderson  of  Londonderry.  She  was  born  Feb.  9,  1802  ; 
died  April  12,  1876.  He  died  March  23,  1865. 

Dea.  Jones  was  one  of  the  notable  men  of  Lyndeborough.  He  was  tall 
and  of  a  stalwart  frame,  and  but  few  men  could  accomplish  as  much  farm 
work  in  a  day  as  he.  He  was  educated  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover, 
Mass.,  for  teaching,  which  vocation  he  followed  for  a  number  of  years, 
but  the  active  years  of  his  life  were  passed  in  his  native  town  on  the 
homestead  farm,  where  Geo.  E.  Spalding  now  lives.  For  nearly  fifty 
years  he  was  a  deacon  of  the  Congregational  church  and  a  liberal  con- 
tributor to  its  support.  He  was  a  man  of  great  energy  in  his  business  of 
farming.  He  used  to  raise  hops  extensively,  and  there  was  a  hop  press 
and  a  storage  room  on  his  premises,  something  not  seen  in  Lyndebor- 
ough  now,  and  only  remembered  by  the  older  generation.  He  rather 
avoided  holding  public  office  but  his  influence  was  felt  in  all  the  affairs  of 
town  and  church. 

Dea.  Jones  opened  a  store  in  New  Ipswich  which  he  kept  for  a  few 
j-ears,  but  on  the  death  of  his  father  he  returned  to  Lyndeborough.  His 
second  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Hugh  and  Elizabeth  (Nesmith)  Ander 
son  of  Londonderry.  Children  by  second  wife  :  — 

1.  EUZA  P.,  b.  Aug.  30,  1839,  m.  Solon  B.  Richardson.     (See 

Richardson  gen.) 

2.  MARY  A.,   b.   March  22,    1841,  m.  William   R.   Blaney  of 

Swampscott,  Mass.,  res.  in  Swampscott.    Children:  George, 
Joanna. 

3.  ABBY  J.,  b.  Dec.  23,  1842,  m.  George  E.  Spalding.     (See 

Spalding  gen.) 

4.  JOANNA   C.,    b.    Sept.    26,    1845,    m.   James   K.    Philips  of 

Swampscott,    Mass.,   Jan.    25,    1869,  res.    in   Swampscott. 
Children  :    Edward  James,  Mary  Anderson. 

JOSUN. 

TIMOTHY  JOSLIN.  In  1854,  Timothy  Joslin  and  his  son,  Henry  H., 
bought  a  farm  on  the  road  leading  from  the  Pinnacle  House  to  Green- 
field, known  as  the  Marsh  place.  Nothing  but  a  cellar  hole  marks  the 
spot.  Timothy  was  a  son  of  William  Joslin  of  Leominster,  Mass.  He 
was  born  there  in  1796.  He  married  Mary  Ann  Lese,  born  in  Byfield, 
Mass.,  in  1805.  She  died  Nov.  22,  1863.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Eliza  Saunderson  Lese  of  New  Ipswich.  Timothy  afterward  re- 
moved to  the  place  where  Mrs.  Ann  Cummings  lives  now,  and  died  there 
Oct.  30,  1863.  Children  :  — 

1.  SAMUEL  L/M  d.  in  infancy. 

2.  MARY  ANN,  d.  of  accidental  burning,  aged  8  years. 

3.  SAMUEL  O.,  b.  May  20,  1831,  m.  Bethiah  U.  Swinnington  of 

Greenfield.     He  d.   Nov.   9,  1874.     She  d.   in  Greenfield, 
Dec.  2,  1890. 

4.  HENRY  H.,  + 


792  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

5.  OTIS,  b.  August,  1835,  m.  Sarah  J.  lyibby  of  Saco,  Me.,  is 

a  lumberman  and  resides  in  Saganaw,  Mich.  Children  : 
Bertha  A.,  Otis  W.,  Clarence  and  Fred. 

6.  ISABELLA   C.,   b.    February,    18,38,    m.    William    Lewis   of 

Wabash  Co.,  Ind. 

7.  HARRIETT  J.,  b.  November,  1839,  m.  Wyman  W.   Ryan  of 

Jaffrey,  N.  H. 

8.  WILLIAM  P.,    b.    November,    1843,    m.   Georgianna    More- 

house  of  Osseo,  Minn. 

9.  L,EVI  N.,  b.  Oct.   14,  1847,  d.  April,  1862.     Fatally  burned 

by  gunpowder. 

HENRY  H.  JOSUN,  son  of  Timothy  and  Mary  A.  (Lese)  Joslin,  born 
May  7,  1833;  married  Jan.  3,  1856,  Deborah  J.  Smith  of  Francestown. 
She  was  born  Oct.  3,  1843.  He  bought  the  Harvey  Holt  place  and  has 
lived  there  ever  since.  Both  he  and  his  wife  have  been  persons  of  un- 
tiring industry.  In  recent  years,  owing  to  impaired  health,  they  have 
spent  some  of  the  winters  in  the  south.  Mr.  Joslin  has  always  taken  a 
proper  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  town  and  has  faithfully  discharged 
his  duties  as  a  citizen.  He  is  a  prosperous  and  well-to-do  farmer. 
Children,  all  but  the  eldest  born  in  L,yndeborough  :  — 

1.  FRANK  H.,  -f- 

2.  ALLEN  B.,    b.    Aug.    14,    1860,    m.    Sept.    23,    1885,    Rose 

Stevens  of  Port  Huron,  Mich.  Res.  in  Port  Huron,  Mich. 
Five  children. 

3.  HARRY  A.,  b.  July  19,  1862,  m.  Sept.  19,  1889,  Marion  G. 

Burnham  of  Abilene,  Kansas.  Res.  at  Milford.  Chil- 
dren :  Bessie  J.,  b.  at  Milford;  Henry  J.,  b.  at  Hartford; 
Ruth,  b.  at  L,yndeborough  ;  Emily  S.,  b.  at  Milford. 

4.  OTIS  W.,  b.  June  22,  1864.     Res.  at  Amherst. 

5.  WINFRED,  b.  Aug.  2,  1867.     Res.  in  Alaska. 

6.  JENNIE  M.,  b.  July  24,  1869.     Graduated  from  McCullom 

Institute  and  from  a   special   course   at   Harvard   Annex. 

7.  BENJAMIN  H.,  -f- 

8.  PERRY  E.,  b.  Jan.    10,   1873.     Graduated  from  Dartmouth 

Medical  School  in  1898.     Res.  at  Milford. 

9.  GRACE  B.,  b.  Dec.  4,  1875. 

10.  SAMUEL  I*.,  b.  March  21,  1878.     Graduated  from  Harvard 
Medical  School  in  1900. 

n.  BESSIE  E.,  b.  Nov.  24,  1881,  d.  Sept.  23,  1882. 
12.  FLORENCE   A.,  b.   March   18,   1883,  m.   William   Nichols. 
(See  Nichols  gen.) 

FRANK  H.  JOSIvIN,  son  of  Henry  and  Deborah  J.  (Smith)  Joslin, 
born  Aug.  3,  1858  ;  married  Jan.  8,  1885,  Etta  M.,  daughter  of  Jonathan 


GENEALOGIES  793 

and  Emily   (Woodward)   Stephenson.     She  was    born    Sept.   12,   1859, 
Children  :  — 

1.  ELMER  F.,  b.  July  30,  1886. 

2.  EMMA  F.,  b.  Oct.  10,  1887. 

3.  EVERETT  H.,  b.  April  23,  1889. 

H.,  b.  Dec.  24,  1890. 


BENJAMIN  H.  JOSWN,  son  of  Henry  H.  and  Deborah  J.  (Smith) 
Joslin,  born  Sept.  14,  1871  ;  married  Oct.  18,  1894,  Mary  A.,  daughter  of 
John  and  Ann  (Cassidy)  Cain  of  Greenfield.  She  was  born  Dec.  21,  1869. 
Children  :  — 

1.  ALBERT  B.,  b.  Sept.  24,  1897. 

2.  PERRY  E.,  b.  April  30,  1901. 

KARR. 

JAMES  KARR,  b.  at  Goffstown,  Jan.  i,  1767  ;  married  Nov.  13,  1794, 
Sarah,  daughter  of  Carr  and  and  Joanna  Huse  of  New  Chester,  now  Hill. 
She  died  Feb.  21,  1844.  At  the  time  of  his  marriage  he  removed  to  New 
Chester,  where  he  taught  school,  and  held  many  offices  of  trust.  In 
1821  he  removed  to  Lyndeborough  and  settled  on  the  Creecy  place, 
south  of  Edward  Duncklee's.  He  afterward  lived  at  several  places  in 
the  town.  It  is  said  of  him  that  "he  was  a  quiet,  unassuming  man,  but 
possessed  of  considerable  ability,  and  amply  qualified  to  fill  a  high  posi- 
tion in  the  community,  that  he  was  ever  ready  to  weep  with  those  that 
weep  and  rejoice  with  those  that  rejoice,  that  he  was  a  consistent  Chris- 
tian, and  that  both  he  and  his  wife  were  members  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  Andover,  N.  H.,  at  the  time  of  their  deaths."  He  died  Oct. 

3.  1845.     Children  :  — 

1.  THOMAS,  b.  Nov.  19,  1795,  d.  Oct.  25,  1851. 

2.  HUSE,  + 

3.  JOHN,  b.  Nov.  21,  1800,  d.  Jan.  25,  1877,  m.  Hannah  Parker. 

4.  JOANNA,  b.  April  6,   1803,  d.   Aug.   5,   1874,  m.    Ebenezer 

Pearson. 

5.  JAMES,   b.  Nov.   5,   1805,  d.   May  23,   1887,  m.   Harriet  P. 

Cunningham. 

6.  JOSEPH,  b.  March  13,  1808,  d.  July  22,  1869. 

7.  MARTHA,  b.  July  21,  1810,  d.  Feb.   15,  1857. 

8.  SARAH,  b.  Dec.  23,  1813,  d.  Aug.  2,   1891,  m.   James  M. 

Floyd. 

9.  SAMUEL,  b.  May  2,  1816,  d.  June  3,  1884. 

10.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Jan.  5,  1819,  d.  Oct.   n,  1883. 

11.  MARY,  b.  March  8,  1822.     Res.  at  Wilson's  Crossing,  N.  H. 

HUSE  KARR,  son  of  James  and  Sarah  (Huse)  Karr,  born  March  28, 
1798;  married  Dec.  27,  1821,  Sally  Ordway  of  I/yndeborough.  She  died 
May  18,  1826  ;  second,  June  24,  1832,  Susanna  Pickle.  He  died  April  5, 
1879.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 


794  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

1.  SARAH,  b.  Oct.  25,  1822.  d.  March  17,  1824. 

2.  SARAH  MARIA,  b.  Aug.  21,  1824,  d.  Oct.  31,  1824. 

3.  JAMES  H.,  + 
By  second  wife :  — 

4.  MARY  J.,  b.  Sept.  13,  1836,  m.  Edward  Lambert  of  Nashua. 

5.  JOHN  H.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1838,  d.  Aug.  10,  1863.     Was  a  soldier 

in  the  Civil  War.     (See  Chap.  X.) 

6.  FRANCES  A.,  b.  Jan.  9,  1841,  d.  Feb.  6,  1852. 

7.  HARRIET  S.,  b.  April   13,  1844,  m.  L,evi  Brooks  of  Green- 

field. 

8.  EI^EN  C.,   b.    Sept.    13,    1847,    m.    William    Duncklee  of 

Greenfield. 

9.  THOMAS  E.,  b.  July  31,  1849,  m.  Lizzie  Ford. 

10.  JOANNA,  b.  Aug.  12,  1853,  m.  Morris  Edmands. 

11.  EMMA  E.,  b.  March  21,  1857,  m.  William  Felton. 

JAMES  H.  KARR,  son  of  Huse  and  Sally  (Ordway)  Karr ;  born  Feb. 
26,  1826;  married  May  6,  1857,  Clarinda  F.,  daughter  of  James  and  Sally 
(Parker)  Bruce  of  Mont  Vernon.  She  was  born  Jan.  10,  1831 ;  died  Feb. 
28,  1901.  Child  :  — 

i.  FRED  B.,  b.  Feb.  21,  1868. 

KIDDER. 

The  Kidder  family  had  much  to  do  with  the  early  settlement  of  Lynde- 
borough,  but  the  records  are  very  meagre.  John  Kidder  was  probably 
the  first  of  the  name  to  come,  and  he  probably  came  when  the  grant  was 
called  Salem-Canada.  He  was  of  the  fourth  generation  from  James 
Kidder,  the  immigrant  ancestor  of  the  Kidders  of  America.  He  was  the 
son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Proctor)  Kidder,  and  was  born,  in  Sutton, 
Mass.,  June  3,  1727.  Just  when  he  came  to  Lyndeborough  is  unknown. 
Tracing  back  the  ownership  of  farms  in  Lyndeborough,  we  find  many  of 
them  were  owned  by  Kidders  in  the  early  days  of  the  town.  On  which 
one  John  'settled  is  not  known.  He  married  Triphena,  daughter  of 
Ephraim  Powers.  She  was  born  April  20,  1731.  He  died  Jan.  14,  1810. 
Children :  — 

1.  TRIPHENA,  b.  May  4,  1755. 

2.  JOHN,  b.  March  4,   1757,  m.  Molly  Chamberlain,  probably  a 

daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Cram)  Chamberlain. 
He  removed  to  Maine. 

3.  lyOis,  b.  July  10,  1760,  m.  Jonathan  Butler. 

4.  EPHRAIM,  -j- 

5.  JOSEPH,  + 

6.  RACHEL,  b.  March  8,  1769,  m.  Nathaniel  Tay. 

EPHRAIM  KIDDER,  son  of  John  and  Triphena  (Powers)  Kidder; 
born  Oct.  12,  1761 ;  married  Martha  Karr  of  New  Boston.  He  died  in 


GENEALOGIES  795 

Lyndeborough  in  January,  1841.     He  lived  on  the  farm  where  the  late 
Franklin  H.  Kidder  lived.     Children  :  — 

1.  THOMAS,  + 

2.  MARTHA,  b.  April  2,  1788. 

3.  EPHRAIM,  -f- 

4.  LUCY  P.,  b.  Aug.  25,  1793. 

5.  JAMES,   b.  Aug.   21,    1798,  m.  Betsey  Kidder,  daughter  of 

Joseph  and  Polly  (Kpps)  Kidder,  rem.  to  Westfield,  O. 

THOMAS  KIDDER,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Martha  (Karr)  Kidder ;  born 
Nov.  24,  1786;  married  Aug.  n,  1811,  Elizabeth  Holt.  She  was  born 
June  5,  1788 ;  died  Nov.  9,  1856.  He  died  Sept.  5,  1854.  Children  :  — 

1.  THOMAS  J.,  b.  May  31,  1812,  d.  Dec.  18,  1812. 

2.  BETSEY  A.,  b.  March  6,   1814,  m.  Joseph   H.  Ford.     (See 

Ford  gen.) 

3.  FRANKUN  H.,  + 

4.  MARTHA  H.,  b.  Aug.  u,  1821,  m.  Cyrus  Moors  of  Sharon. 

5.  CYNTHIA  J.,  b.  June   21,   1824,  m.  Dea.  Oliver  Barrett  of 

Wilton.     She  d.  May  5,  1881. 

6.  ALMANDER  A.,  b.  Oct.  26,  1827,  d.  May  20,  1861. 

7.  LUCY  A.,  b.   Dec.    13,    1832,  m.  Isaac  Lowe.     (See  Lowe 

gen.) 

FRANKLIN  H.  KIDDER,  son  of  Thomas  and  Elizabeth  (Holt) 
Kidder;  born  Oct.  18,  1818;  married  Feb.  22,  1853,  Elsey  M.  Fish  of 
Peterborough.  She  was  born  March  24,  1826 ;  died  Sept.  5,  1899.  He  died 
April  27,  1899.  He  was  a  quiet,  unassuming  man,  and  much  respected 
in  the  community.  He  lived  on  the  farm  his  father  and  grandfather 
owned  before  him.  Children  :  — 

1.  CHARLES  F.,  b.  May  21,  1857,  d.  May  29,  1857. 

2.  ELIZABETH  R.,  b.  June  15,   1859,  m.  Nov.  14,  1882,  Ethan 

A.  Woodward. 

EPHRAIM  KIDDER,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Martha  (Karr)  Kidder; 
born  Jan.  3,  1791 ;  married  Betsey,  daughter  of  John  and  Anna  Bofee. 
She  was  born  July  28,  1792 ;  died  in  Wilton,  May  14,  1878.  He  lived  in 
Lyndeborough  until  after  the  youngest  child  was  born,  then  removed  to 
Wilton,  where  he  died  Aug  3,  1858. 

1.  JOHN  BOFEE,  + 

2.  THOMAS  K.,  b.  June  9,  1817,  rem.  to  Milford. 

3.  ELIZA,  m.  Burnham  Russell.     (See  Russell  gen.) 

4.  ANNA,  b.  Sept.  16,  1822,  d.  May  15,   1868,  m.  John  Burton 

of  Wilton. 

5.  MARTHA,  b.  Aug.  14,  1828,  d.  July  2,  1832. 

JOHN  BOFEE  KIDDER,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Betsey  (Bofee)  Kidder ; 


796  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

born  Aug.  16,  1811;  married  April,  1834,  Mary  Russell.     She  died  Oct. 
22,  1879.     He  died  at  Milford,  May  2,  1892.     Children  :  — 

1.  MARY  O.,  b.  Oct.  15,  1835,  m.  May  2,   1854,   Artemas  Put- 

nam of  Wilton. 

2.  JOHN  P.,  b.  July  i,   1838,  was  soldier  in  Civil  War.     (See 

Chap.  X.) 

3.  DIANA,  b.  Nov.  7,  1841,  m.  Oct.  10,  1865,  Horace  W.  Rice 

of  Leominster,  Mass. 

JOSEPH  KIDDER,  son  of  John  and  Triphena  (Powers)  Kidder;  born 
Nov.  30,  1763;  married  Polly  Epps.  A  short  time  after  his  marriage  he 
removed  to  Westfield,  O.  Children  :  — 

1.  FRANCES  E. 

2.  JOSEPH. 

3.  BENJAMIN. 

4.  JOHN. 

5.  EPPS. 

6.  SARAH,  m.  David  Woodward. 

7.  HANNAH,  m.  Daniel  L,ove. 

8.  BETSEY,  m.  James  Kidder. 

CAPT.  JONAS  KIDDER,  son  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Proctor)  Kidder  ; 
born  in  Hudson,  N.  H.,  Nov.  16, 1743.  Removed  to  L/yndeborough  probably 
when  a  young  man,  for  he  was  living  here  when  the  Revolutionary  War 
broke  out,  in  which  he  served  as  captain.  (See  P.  190.)  He  removed 
to  Hudson  and  died  there.  The  inscription  on  his  headstone  reads  as 
follows :  — 

"  In  memory  of  Capt.  Jonas  Kidder  who  died  Nov.  i,  1837,  aged  94. 
Formerly  of  L,inesborough." 

Capt.  Jonas  Kidder  was  the  first  settler  on  the  farm  now  owned  by 
Robert  C.  Mason,  on  the  mountain.  The  house,  which  was  a  tavern 
stand  built  by  him,  was  torn  down  by  Jesse  Simonds  to  make  way  for  the 
present  house.  The  old  house  had  a  hall  up  stairs  in  which  were  held 
singing  schools  and  various  gatherings.  This  hall  contained  probably 
the  largest  fireplace  in  town.  He  married  Huldah,  daughter  of  Dea. 
Ephraim  and  Sarah  Cram)  Putnam,  Nov.  26,  1768.  She  died  Jan.  13, 
1778.  He  married  second,  Widow  Alice  Barren  May  20,  1779.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Amos  Taylor.  Children  by  first  wife :  — 

1.  AARON,  b.  May  8,   1769,  m.  Pamelia,  dau.  of  Andrew  and 

Mary    (Putnam)    Fuller   of    t/yndeborough.      She  was   b. 
March  12,  1770. 

2.  JONAS,  b.  Jan.  8,  1771,  d.  Aug.  17,  1817. 

3.  HANNAH,  b.  March  21,  1773,  m.  L,evi  Cross. 

4.  DAVID,  b.  Jan.  16,    1775,   m.   Betsey,  dau.  of  Andrew  and 

Mary  (Putnam)  Fuller.     She  was  b.  Feb.  6,  1776. 

5.  EPHRAIM,  b.  Nov.  19,  1777,  d.  April  6,  1778. 


GENEALOGIES  797 

6.  NATHAN,   b.   June    14,  ,  supposed  to  have  died  very 

young. 
Children  by  second  wife :  — 

7.  JOSEPH,  b.  April  7,  1780,  m.  Sarah  Souther. 

8.  PUTNAM,  b.  June  23,  1782,  d.  May  22,  1783. 

9.  WILLIAM,  -f- 

10.  BENJAMIN,  b.  July  4,  1786,  d.  Jan.  16,  1808. 

WILLIAM  KIDDER.  son  of  Capt.  Jonas  and  Alice  (Barren)  Kidder, 
was  born  in  Lyndeborough  May  7,  1784;  died  in  Irasburgh,  Vt.,  Jan.  2, 
1863.  William  Kidder  lived  in  Lyndeborough  until  the  year  1820,  when 
he  removed  to  Irasburgh,  Vt.  He  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Charles 
and  Anna  (Faxon)  Whitmarsh  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  at 
Braintree,  Mass.,  May  7,  1784;  died  Dec.  28,  1868.  Children  born  in 
Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  SARAH,  died  in  infancy. 

2.  CHARLES  W.,  b.  Dec.  8,  1809,  d.  May  28,  1886. 

3.  WILLIAM  W.,  b.  Nov.  17,  1811,  d.  Aug.  22,  1886. 

4.  ALICE,  b.  Nov.  18,  1813,  m.  James  Hancock. 

5.  BENJAMIN  A.,  b.  Feb.  12,  1816,  m.  Elvira  Langdon. 

6.  MARY  A.,  b.  March  n,  1818,  d.  Nov.  21,  1869. 

7.  JOSIAH  C.,  b.  Jan.   12,   1820,  in.  Eliza  Michell.     Children, 

b.  in  Irasburgh. 

8.  BETSEY,  b,  Aug.  12,  1823. 

9.  FAXON,  b.  Sept.  13,  1826. 

10.  JOSEPH,  b.  Sept.  12,  1828. 

KIDDER. 

PHINEAS  KIDDER  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Chelmsford,  Mass., 
in  1786,  or  1787  and  settled  on  what  is  now  known  as  the  Watkins  place. 
He  married  Hannah  Crosby  of  Westfield,  Mass.  He  died  Jan.  20,  1846. 
She  died  June  13,  1850.  Children,  born  at  North  Lyndeborough  .  — 

1.  SAMUEL,  -+- 

2.  PHINEAS,  + 

3.  ANN,  b.  Aug.  27,  1791,  m.  Jan.  19,  1828,  Eliphalet  Atwood. 

(See  Atwood  gen.) 

4.  HANNAH,  b.  July  30,  1793,  m.  Luke  Giddings  of  New  Boston. 

SAMUEL  KIDDER,  son  of  Phineas  and  Hannah  (Crosby)  Kidder, 
boru  March  13,  1787;  married  Oct.  12,  1812,  Hannah  Brown  of  Lynde- 
borough. She  died  in  Francestown  Feb.  28,  1864.  He  died  March  6, 
1866.  Removed  to  Francestown. 

PHINEAS  KIDDER,*  son  of  Phineas  and  Hannah  (Crosby)  Kidder, 

*  The  Francestown  History  records  Phineas  Kidder  as  coming  to  Lyndeborough  about 
1797.  If  this  is  correct,  his  children,  Samuel,  Phiueas,  Jr.,  Ann  and  Hannah  were  born 
in  Chelmsford,  Mass.  The  record  furnished  us  gives  their  birthplace  at  Lyndebor- 


798 HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

born  Dec.  5,  1789;  married  Oct.  12,  1812,  Patty,  daughter  of  Abraham 
aud  De/iah  (Fish)  Rose  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  July  i,  1794; 
died  April  30,  1882.  He  died  Jan.  20,  1864.  Children  :  — 

1.  CATHERINE,  b.  March  9,  1813,  m.  Warner  Clark,  d.  Jan.  20, 

1848. 

2.  ANN,  b.  Aug.  9,  1815,  d.  Oct.  7,  1815. 

3.  PHINEAS  C.,  b.  Jan.   12,  1817,  m.  Emily  Hardy  of  Green- 

field, Oct.  13,  1842.  He  d.  March  29,  1892.  She  d. 
March  31,  1899.  Children:  Emily,  b.,  Nov.  14,  1843,  m. 
Charles  A.  Rogers  of  Boston,  Mass.,  res.  in  Windham,  Me.; 
Merrill  H.,  b.  April  17,  1847,  m.  April  25,  1875,  Ida  Patch 
of  Francestown ;  Abbie  J.,  b.  Dec.  16,  1852,  m.  Aug.  31, 
1873,  David  A.  Starrett  of  Hillsboro. 

KIDDER. 

MANLEY  KIDDER,  born  July  24,  1810;  married  first,  Rachel  P. 
Abbott;  married  second,  Rachel  P.  Buswell.  She  died  Oct.  29,  1872.  He 
married  third,  Sarah  H.  Proctor,  who  died  Nov.  20,  1879. 

KIDDER. 

NELSON  KIDDER  came  to  Lyndeborough  f rom  Jaffrey  in  1837.  He 
was  a  blacksmith  by  trade,  and  it  is  said  that  he  could  hammer  iron  as 
"  smooth  "  as  any  craftsman  of  his  day.  He  lived  in  the  Manahan  house 
at  the  centre  and  had  a  shop  nearby,  where  he  worked  up  to  within  a  few 
years  of  his  death.  He  was  born  May  14,  1809;  died  Jan.  31,  1892;  mar- 
ried Lucy  P.  Barnes  of  Dublin,  N.  H.,  Nov.  29,  1838.  She  was  born  Oct. 
i,  1807  ;  died  April  8,  1898.  Children:  — 

1.  ALBERT  J.,  b.  July  18,  1840,  d.  Sept.  21,  1872.     Was  in  the 

U.  S.  service  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.     (See  Chap.  X.) 

2.  LUCY  E.,  b.  Aug.  10,  1842,  d.  Ma7  19,  1864. 

LAKIN. 

THOMAS  LAKIN  came  from  Groton,  Mass.,  and  settled  on  land  east 
of  South  Lyndeborough  village.  This  land  is  now  owned  by  Ward  N. 
Cheever.  Thomas  married  Lucy,  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  Burton 
of  Wilton.  She  was  born  Feb.  18,  1778.  Their  children  born  at  Lynde- 
borough were :  — 

1.  WILLIAM  G.,  + 

2.  LUCY. 

3.  AMBROSE. 

4.  BETSEY,  in.  Amos  Herrick. 

5.  MARY  A.,  m. Billings. 

6.  CYRENA,  m Rogers. 


GENEALOGIES  799 

WILLIAM  G.    LAKIN,    son  of  Thomas  and   Lucy   (Burton)    Lakin, 
married  Harriet  Carleton.     Their  children  born  at  Lyndeborough  were  : 

1.  WILLIAM  A.,  b.  Nov.  23,  1844. 

2.  HARRIET  F.,  b.  April  5,  1846. 


NATHAN  LANGDBLL,  born  in  New  Boston,  N.  H.,  Nov.  22,  1822  ; 
married  first,  Ann  F.  Smith  of  New  Boston,  Dec.  14,  1854.  She  was 
born  May  26,  1830;  died  Aug.  15,  1856;  married  second,  Hannah  A. 
Lateren  of  Deering,  N.  H.,  May  14,  1857.  She  was  born  May  5,  1831. 
Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  ANN  F.,  b.  in  New  Boston,  Feb.  3,  1859. 

2.  HILLIARD  L/.,  b.  in  New  Boston,  March  22,  1861,  d.  April 

4,  1882. 

3.  JULIA  L,.,  b.  in  L/yndeborough,  May  17,   1866.     Graduated 

from  Francestown  Academy  in  1886.     She  is  a  teacher. 

LEWIS. 

William  Lewis  came  to  Roxbury,  Mass.,  in  1630.  He  returned  to 
England,  where  he  married  Amy  Wells.  He  was  a  brother  of  Edmond 
Lewis,  who  came  over  in  the  ship  Elizabeth  in  1634  and  settled  in 
Watertown  and  removed  to  Lynn,  Mass.  He  was  from  Lynn  Regis, 
England.  William  came  to  this  country  again  and  settled  in  Roxbury, 
where  he  and  his  wife  were  attendants  of  the  Rev.  John  Elliott's  church 
in  1640.  He  was  admitted  freeman  in  1642.  He  was  a  friend  and  asso- 
ciate of  Gov.  Bellingham.  In  May,  1653,  he  sold  his  house  lot  and  re- 
moved to  Lancaster,  Mass.  Here  he  carried  on  the  business  of  weaving. 
Here  he  remained  and  endured  the  trials  and  hardships  of  a  frontier 
life  until  1671,  when  he  secured  land  in  the  limits  of  Boston  to  build 
upon,  but  was  prostrated  by  sickness  and  died  Dec.  3,  1671.  He  left  a 
widow  and  sons,  John,  Christopher  and  Isaac  ;  daughters,  Lydia,  Mary 
and  Hannah.  After  his  death  the  household  was  broken  up  by  an  attack 
of  the  Indians  under  John  Monico,  a  one-eyed  chief  of  the  Nipmucks, 
who  killed  several  of  the  family  and  burned  their  goods. 

Jonathan  Lewis,  of  the  fourth  generation  from  William,  was  born 
Dec.  6,  1708,  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  and  married  first,  April  19,  1733, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  John  and  Hannah  (Fisher)  Hunting  of  Dedham, 
by  whom  he  had  six  children.  He  married  second,  Mrs.  Abigail  (Clappj 
Everett  of  Walpole,  by  whom  he  had  six  children.  In  1771,  early  in  the 
spring,  Moses  and  Aaron  Lewis,  sons  of  Jonathan,  went  to  New  Boston 
and  bought  a  farm  of  John  Dickey.  This  farm  was  alongside  of  the 
farm  reserved  by  the  grantors  for  Col.  Blanchard,  and  adjoining  the 
Haunted  Pond,  now  occupied  by  Geo.  Shattuck.  That  year  they  made 
a  clearing  and  built  a  log  house.  Sept.  24,  1772,  Aaron  Lewis  married 
Sarah  White  at  Stoughtonham,  now  Sharon,  Mass.  Mrs.  Hezekiah 
Duncklee  was  Mehitable  White,  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Aaron  Lewis,  also  of 
Moses  White  of  Lyndeborough,  and  also  of  Benjamin  White  of  Frances- 
town.  They  were  children  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  White  of  Dedham, 


800  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

Mass.  Dec.  12,  1772,  he  sold  his  half  interest  in  this  farm  to  Moses 
Lewis  for  ,£"63.  On  May  24,  1774,  Moses  Lewis  sold  his  farm  to  Enoch 
Holmes  of  Walpole,  Mass.  On  June  i,  1774,  Joseph  Stiles  of  Lyndebor- 
ough  for  £45  paid  by  Moses  Lewis  sells  his  part  of  the  lot  the  proprie- 
tors of  Lyndeborough  laid  out  to  Rev.  Sewall  Goodrich,  in  the  north- 
west part  of  the  town.  Dec.  28,  1791,  Greenfield  was  incorporated  and 
this  farm  became  a  part  of  that  town,  and  was  occupied  for  over  100 
years  by  three  generations  of  this  family.  On  May  6,  1780,  Aaron  Lewis 
bought  lands  in  Lyndeborough,  in  the  northwest  part  of  the  town,  one 
lot  of  which  is  still  known  as  the  old  Lewis  place. 

DEA.  AARON  LEWIS  was  selectman  in  1793  and  1794,  and  town 
clerk  in  1809  and  1810,  a  deacon  in  the  church,  a  man  of  great  piety  and 
a  citizen  honored  for  his  integrity  and  uprightness  of  character.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War  (See  Chap.  VII),  and  was  some- 
times called  Col.  Lewis.  In  the  records  of  the  church  is  this  record  : 
"Voted  that  as  there  is  not  found  any  record  of  the  vote  of  the  church, 
whereas  they  made  choice  of  Brothers  Samuel  Houston  and  Aaron 
Lewis  as  deacons,  that  the  present  clerk  record  the  same."  Aaron  was 
deacon  from  the  election  there  recorded  until  1830,  when  he  removed  to 
the  home  of  his  son,  Amasa,  in  New  Boston.  He  was  the  son  of  Jona- 
than and  Abigail  (Clapp  Everett)  Lewis,  born  July  3,  1750  ;  died  in  New 
Boston,  May  20,  1833;  married  Sept.  24,  1772,  at  Sharon,  Mass.,  Sarah 
White,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  White.  She  was  born  Feb.  8, 
1750,  and  died  May  16,  1804.  Children  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  AARON,  -f- 

2.  SARAH,  b.  April  24,  1777,  m.  Ichabod  Holmes  and  rem.  to 

Francestown. 

3.  AMASA,  b.   May   14,    1780,  d.   April  n,   1849,  in  Medford, 

Mass.,  m.    April    16,   1807,    Polly   Dane  of    New   Boston. 
Rem.  to  New  Boston. 

4.  NANCY,   b.  April  28,   1783,  d.  Aug.  i,   1853,  m.  first,  May 

22,    1806,    John  Elliott,  by  whom  she  had  two    children, 
John  and  Nancy. 

5.  ABIGAIL,  b.  Jan.  4,  1787,  m.  April  6,  1809,  Israel  H.  Good- 

rich, a  son  of  Rev.  Sewall  and  Phebe  (Putnam)  Goodrich. 
She  d.  June  30,  1821.     (See  Goodrich  gen.) 

6.  PARHELIA,  b.  July  7,   1789,  d.   Dec.   24,   1851,  m.  May  5, 

1819,  Samuel  Cressey  of  L/yndeborough. 

7.  ASA,  + 

AARON  LEWIS,  son  of  Aaron  and  Sarah  (White)  Lewis,  born  March 
T9)  T775!  died  June  21,  1855;  married  in  1798,  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Hannah  Boardman  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  June 
29,  1776;  died  Nov.  20,  1865.  Removed  to  Francestown  and  settled  on  a 
farm  near  the  Lyndeborough  line.  Children  born  in  Francestown  :  — 

i.  HANNAH,  b.  Aug.  19,  1800,  d.  Aug.  17,  1863,  m.  Williams 
Woodward.     (See  Woodward  gen.) 


GENEALOGIES  801 

2.  NANCY,  b.  Aug.  21,  1802,  m.  Thomas  Gorton,  of  Eastford, 

Conn.,  d.  May  19,  1866. 

3.  ISAAC,    b.   July   31,    1805,    m.   Emily   Deans  of    Eastford, 

Conn. 

4.  ELIZABETH  B.,  b.   May  2,   1816,  m.  Leonard  Duncklee  of 

Greenfield. 

ASA  LEWIS,  son  of  Aaron  and  Sarah  (White)  Lewis,  born  Dec.  7, 
1792;  died  in  1831,  in  Baltimore,  Md.;  married  Jan.  18,  1820,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Sewall  and  Phebe  (Putnam)  Goodrich  of  Lyndebor- 
ough.  She  was  born  Nov.  26,  1791,  and  died  Jan.  14,  1866.  Children 
born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  NATHANIEL,  b.   Dec.   27,   1820,  m.  Sept.  n,   1865,  Louisa 

Worthley  of  Nashua.     He  d.  Jan.  5,  1890. 

2.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Sept.  n,  1826,  m.  Sept.  17,  1850,  Francis  F. 

Kimball  of  Nashua. 

3.  CHARLES  H.,  b.  Oct.  27,  1829,  d.  April  30,  1832. 

MOSES  LEWIS,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Hunting)  Lewis,  born 
Sept.  27,  1743 ;  died  March  3,  1829 ;  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of 
William  and  Rebecca  (Parker)  Butterfield  of  Francestown,  born  April 
6,  1744 ;  died  April  29,  1830.  Moses  was  a  very  pious  man  and  always 
had  family  worship  up  to  his  last  illness.  Children  born  in  Lyndebor- 
ough :  — 

1.  SAMUEL,  b.   Dec.   25,   1776,  m.   Betsey  Martin  of  Frances- 

town.     She  was  b.  June  28,    1779,   d.   May  29,    1841,   in 
Greenfield.     He  d.  March  n,  1860.     Rem.  to  Greenfield. 

2.  REBECCA,    b.  April  28,    1779,   d.   Feb.    16,   1867,  m.    1806, 

Robert  Martin  of  Francestown. 

3.  L/YDIA,  b.   Feb.    17,    1783,  d.   Jan.  5,   1869,  at  Rindge,  m. 

Ezekiel  Cudworth  of  Greenfield. 

LONG. 

GEORGE  D.  LONG  born  Feb.  2,  1856;  married  Nov.  30,  1893,  Lizzie, 
daughter  of  Robert  and  Abby  (Raymond)  Bell.  She  was  born  March  3, 
1875.  He  came  from  Stoneham,  Mass.  Is  a  blacksmith  and  worked  in 
a  shop  at  the  "  centre  "  for  a  while.  Later  built  a  shop  near  William  B. 
Raymond's  house.  Children  :  — 

1.  GEORGE  R.,  b.  Sept.  n,  1894. 

2.  NELLIE  E.,  b.  March  30,  1896. 

3.  WILLIAM  H.,  b.  Nov.  10,  1897. 

4.  EDWARD  A.,  b.  Aug.  27,  1900. 

LOWE. 

JOHN  LOWE,  born  at  Boston,  April  25,  1796;  married  May  22,  1825, 
Jemima  II.  Hopkins  of  Wellfleet,  Mass.  She  was  born  Jan.  15,  1801 ;  died 


802  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

July  7,  1884.  He  lived  on  Putnam  Hill,  east  of  South  Lyndeborough 
village,  on  the  place  now  occupied  as  the  summer  residence  of  George  C. 
Lawrence.  Children :  — 

1.  MARY  E.,  b.  at  Dedham,  Mass.,  April  12,  1826,  d.  April  29, 

1848. 

2.  HARRIET  E.,  b.   Aug.    20,    1827,    at   Dedham,    Mass.,    m. 

Charles  Henry  Holt,  d.  Aug.  8,  1880.     (See  Holt  gen.) 

LOWE. 

ISAAC  LOWE,  son  of  Simon  and  Charlotte  (Parker)  Lowe;  born  in 
Greenfield  Aug.  15,  1828;  married  Almira  L-,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Betsey  (Holt)  Kidder,  July  8,  1858.  She  was  born  Dec.  13,  1832.  He 
came  to  Lyndeborough  in  1852. 

LOWE. 

Mrs.  Anna  M.,  widow  of  Frederic  N.  Lowe,  came  to  Lyndeborough  and 
settled  in  Perham  Corner.  She  was  born  in  Lempster  Oct.  14,  1831. 
Most  of  her  children  have  resided  in  Lyndeborough.  Children :  — 

1.  GEORGE  C.,  b.  in  Greenfield  Aug.  30,  1854,  d.  Oct.,  1855. 

2.  EVERETT  E.,  + 

3.  FRED  N.,  -f 

4.  ELLSWORTH  A.,  b.  in  Greenfield,  April  13,  1860;  is  a  ma- 

chinist and  res.  in  Oregon  City,  Ore. 

5.  GEORGE  F.,  b.  in  Greenfield,  March  ~io,   1862,  m.  Ida   S. 

Kidder  of  Francestown,  April  5,  1887. 

EVERETT  E.  LOWE,  son  of  Frederick  N.  and  Anna  (Messenger) 
Lowe  ;  born  at  Windsor  May  10,  1856;  married  March  26,  1895,  Emily  M. 
daughter  of  Augustus  B.  and  Van  Lora  (Nott)  Kimball  of  Hillsborough. 
She  was  born  Sept.  i,  1872.  Lives  on  the  Austin  place  in  Perham  Corner. 
Was  selectman  in  1882,  1883  and  1884.  Is  a  farmer  and  largely  engaged 
in  other  lines  of  business.  In  late  years  he  has  been  one  of  the  heaviest 
buyers  of  apples  in  this  section.  Is  agent  for  some  of  the  leading  makes 
of  farm  machinery,  and  is  an  energetic  business  man.  Children,  born  in 
Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  GRACE  M.,  b.  Feb.  13,  1896. 

2.  L/EON  E.,  b.  May  17,  1898. 

3.  MARION  G.,  b.  Aug.  28,  1900. 

FRED  N.  LOWE,  son  of  Frederick  N.  and  Anna  (Messenger)  Lowe  ; 
born  at  Washington,  Feb.  3,  1858  ;  married  Lucie  A.,  daughter  of  Henry 
H.  and  Nancy  M.  Nichols.  She  was  born  July  17,  1870,  at  Bradford. 
Children :  — 

1.  FRIEDA  A.,  b.  at  L/yndeborough  March  8,  1893. 

2.  CLARA  J.,  b.  at  Goshen  May  29,  1895. 

3.  ELVA  E.  b.  at  Goshen  Aug.  2,  1898. 


GENEALOGIES  803 

LUCAS. 

LUKE  A.  LUCAS  was  born  in  Thetford,  Vt.,  Jan.  24,  1809 ;  married 
Mary  C.  Holt,  daughter  of  Eli  and  Pamelia  Holt  of  Lyndeborough,  Nov. 
I4»  1837.  She  was  born  May  20,  1814;  died  March  21,  1871.  He  died 
Aug.  4,  1887.  He  bought  the  farm  since  generally  known  as  the  Lucas 
place.  Children :  — 

1.  M.  GERTRUDE,  b.  in  Winooski/,  Vt.;  m.  Benjamin  F.  Holt. 

(See  Holt  gen.) 

2.  FLORENCE   M.,    b.    in   Cavendish,  Vt.,   July    16,    1847,    d. 

March  5,  1849. 

3.  EMMA  L,.,  b.  in  L/yndeborough  July  i,  1851,  m.  George  P. 

Bennett  of   New  Boston,  N.  H.,  Dec.  24,   1868.      Child: 
George  W. 

4.  CORNELIA   A.,    b.    in   Winooski,    Vt.,    June    13,    1855,   m. 

Charles  H.  Swain  of  Nashua,  N.  H.,  Nov.  8,  1876.     Chil- 
dren :  Harrison  T.  and  Helen  D. 

I.YNCH. 

ROBERT  K.  LYNCH,  born  in  New  Boston,  June  6,  1829 ;  married  Dec. 
25,  1851,  Betsey  A.,  daughter  of  Eli  and  Sarah  (Loring)  Curtis.  She  was 
born  May  5,  1827;  died  July  24,  1902.  He  died  April  20,  1892.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  L/ILLIAN  V.,  b.  Aug.  30,  1863,  m.  Aaron  W.  Russell.     (See 

Russell  gen.) 

2.  HERBERT  S.  C.,  b.  Sept.  5,  1870. 

JOHN  H.  LYNCH,  born  at  New  Boston,  June  29,  1830;  married  Jan. 
i,  1857,  Adaline  R.,  adopted  daughter  of  Levi  H.  Woodward  of  Lynde- 
borough.  She  was  born  Oct.  31,  1839,  at  Wilmington,  Mass.;  died  May 
u,  1892.  He  married  second,  June  29,  1893,  Henrietta  K.  Hardy  of  Wil- 
ton. She  was  born  Sept.  26,  1843.  He  died  Nov.  29,  1900.  Children  by 
first  wife,  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  JOHN  C.,  b.  May  5,  1858,  res.  at  Plymouth,  Mass. 

2.  FRANK  H.,  b.  Oct.  4,  1862,  d.  Oct.  8,  1894. 

MANAHAN. 

SAMUEL  THOMPSON  MANNING  was  born  in  Deering,  N.  H., 
March  13,  1805  ;  married  Almira  Gove  of  Deering  May  23,  1830.  She  was 
born  June  20,  1808.  They  came  to  Lyndeborough  in  1831.  He  kept  a 
general  store  at  the  Centre  from  1831  to  1835.  He  held  several  town 
offices  and  was  on  the  building  committee  when  the  present  church  and 
town  hall  were  erected.  He  also  represented  the  town  in  the  legislature. 
He  removed  to  Lowell  in  1846,  where  he  was  prominent  and  influential  in 
business  circles  and  municipal  affairs.  He  died  Jan.  3,  1892,  aged  eighty- 
seven  years.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 


804  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

1.  MARY  J.,  b.  July  17,   1832,  m.  Bradford  Marvel  of  lyowell, 

Mass. 

2.  CLARA  A.,  b.  Oct.  27,  1834,  m.  first,  David  Hyde  of  Ix>well, 

m.  second,  Charles  E.  Abbott  of  Maiden,  Mass. 

3.  SARAH  F.,  b.  Oct.  23,  1837,  m.  Atwell  F.  Wright  of  Lowell, 

Mass. 

MANNING. 

JACOB  MANNING  was  of  the  fifth  generation  from  William  Manning, 
who  came  from  England  in  1630,  and  settled  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  as  ap- 
pears by  the  records.  William  Manning,  a  grandson  of  William  of  Cam- 
bridge, removed  to  Billerica,  Mass.,  in  1700.  His  children  were  Williami 
Jacob,  Elizabeth,  Mary,  Sarah,  Rachel,  Martha,  Hannah. 

Jacob,  second  son  of  William  of  Billerica,  married  Martha  Beard,  and 
his  children  were  Isaac,  Thomas,  David,  Jacob,  Daniel,  Mary,  Martha  and 
Esther. 

Jacob  Manning,  Jr.,  married  Sarah  Butterfield,  and  with  his  son  Asa 
came  to  Lyndeborough  and  jointly  purchased  a  farm  of  John  Orne  in 
Johnson's  Corner  for  and  in  consideration  of  twenty-seven  hundred  dol- 
lars. They  took  possession  of  the  property  March  31,  1806.  Jacob 
started  for  Lexington  and  Concord  April  19,  1775,  but  on  account  of  the 
distance  arrived  too  late  for  the  fight,  but  he  was  one  of  the  number  of 
immortal  patriots  at  Bunker  Hill,  so  the  Mannings  are  of  good  Revolu- 
tionary stock.  He  was  killed  by  being  thrown  from  a  load  of  hay  July 
16,  1808.  His  wife  died  Jan.  21,  1831.  Children  :  — 

1.  ASA,  + 

2.  JACOB. 

3.  MARTHA. 

4.  ESTHER. 

ASA  MANNING,  born  Sept.  23,  1780,  in  Billerica,  Mass.;  married 
Olive  Spaulding  of  Billerica,  Mass.,  July  7,  1803.  She  died  Nov.  24,  1844. 
He  died  June  2,  1853.  Soon  after  the  death  of  his  father  Asa  erected  the 
buildings  on  the  farm  where  Willis  Perham  formerly  lived  in  Johnson's 
Corner.  He  was  a  selectman  a  number  of  years,  and  represented  the 
town  in  the  legislature  in  1842,  1843  and  1844.  He  sold  the  farm  in  John- 
son's Corner  in  1837,  and  bought  the  Jones  place  in  North  Lyndeborough. 
Children :  — 

1.  OLIVE,  b.  June  3,  1805,  in  Billerica,  Mass.,  d.  Feb.  12,  1812, 

of  spotted  fever. 

2.  SARAH,  b.  July  u,  1807,  in  Lyndeborough,  d.  Feb.  12,  1812, 

of  spotted  fever. 

3  and  4.  ASA  and  SHEREBIAH  (twins),  b.  July  10,  1809.    Shere- 
biah  d.  Dec.  15,  1810.     Asa  rem.  to  the  West  and  d.  there. 

5.  OLIVE,  b.  March  25,  1812,  m.  Seth  Fuller,  March  10,  1836. 

They  rem.   to  Greenville,  111.,  where  she  d.  Jan.  7,  1842. 
Children  :  Olive,  Theresa,  Henry  I,. 


GENEALOGIES  805 

6.  SHEREBIAH,  -f- 

7.  JOSEPH,  -f 

8.  LYDIA  W.,  b.  Jan.  10,  1821,  m.  Sept.  20,  1848,  Ephraim  W. 

Woodward.     (See  Woodward  gen.) 

9.  SARAH  J.,  b.  Nov.  4,  1822,  m.  John  H.  Whitney  of  Ludlow, 

Vt.,  June  5,  1846.     Child  :  Belle  S. 

SHEREBIAH  MANNING,  born  Jan.  3,  1817;  married  June  3,  1841, 
Julia  A.  Duncklee,  daughter  of  Hezekiah  and  Anna  (Bachelder)  Dunck- 
lee.  She  was  born  Oct.  21,  1812  ;  died  April  22, 1888.  Mr.  Manning  took 
an  active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  town  and  an  earnest  interest  in  its  wel- 
fare. He  was  a  devoted  and  consistent  member  of  the  Congregational 
church.  In  the  lyceums  and  social  life  of  the  community  he  took  great 
interest  and  did  his  share  in  supporting  them.  He  represented  his  town 
in  the  legislature  in  1851,  and  was  one  of  the  selectmen-in  1850.  He  re- 
moved to  Mont  Vernon  and  thence  to  New  Boston,  where  he  died,  Oct. 
30,  1895.  Children  born  in  Lyndebo  rough  :  — 

1.  HENRY  A.,  b.  Oct.  31,  1845. 

2.  JUUE  ANNA,  b.  Aug.  20,  1857. 

JOSEPH  MANNING,  born  July  19,  1819;  married  Louisa  Ormsbee. 
He  was  a  carriage  manufacturer,  and  early  moved  to  Michigan.  He  was 
mayor  of  Owosso,  Mich.,  at  one  time.  He  died  Nov.  6,  1886.  Children  : 
Joseph  W.,  Helen  L.,  Lydia  C. 

MANWELL. 

JOEL  MANWELL  and  Phebe,  his  wife,  were  probably  the  original 
settlers  on  the  land  now  known  as  the  Lucas  place.  The  town  records 
place  them  very  early  in  the  history  of  Lyndeborough.  Children  born 
in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  ISAAC,  b.  Nov.  25,  1767. 

2.  SARAH,  b.  March  30,  1770. 

3.  HANNAH,  b.  Nov.  9,  1771. 

4.  PHEBE,  b.  July  13,  1773. 

5.  JUDAH,  b.  Sept.  21,  1777. 

6.  MOSES,  b.  May  3,  1780. 

MARSHALL. 

JAMES  MARSHALL,  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  (Archer)  Burton 
Marshall,  married  May  13,  1833,  Abigail,  daughter  of  William  and 
Eunice  (Cram)  Abbott.  She  was  born  Jan.  26,  1814.  He  died  May  13, 
1840.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  b.  Feb.  16,  1834.     Lost  at  sea. 

2.  ALMIRA  E.,  b.  Jan.  20,  1836,  d.  July,  1837. 

3.  ANDREW  J.,  + 

4.  MARY  E.,  b.  Aug.  20,  1840,  d.  Sept.  9,  1849. 


806  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

ANDREW  J.  MARSHALL,  son  of  James  and  Abigail  (Abbott) 
Marshall,  born  May  5,  1838;  married  first,  July  4,  1866,  Rose  Bliven, 
daughter  of  John  Bliven  of  Oxford,  N.  Y.  She  was  born  Jan.  i,  1851 ; 
married  second,  Effie  M.,  daughter  of  Leonard  G.  and  Nancy  (Carkin) 
Brown  of  Lyndeborough ,  Feb.  i,  1881.  She  was  born  Jan.  25,  1863.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chapter  X.)  He  died  March  23, 
1902.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  CHARLES  E.,  b.  in  McDonough,  N.  Y.,  Feb.   27,   1868,  d. 

March  10,  1873. 

2.  ADDIE,  b.  in  McDonough,  N.  Y.,  March  28,  1870,  d.  March 

14,  1880. 

3.  ALICE  P.,   b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Aug.   7,  1874,  m.  Sept.  7, 

1897,    Seymour  C.    Hard   of   East   Arlington,  Vt.      Res. 
there.     Children  :    Mederic  and  Gordon. 

MASON. 

ROBERT  C.  MASON,  son  of  Lewis  and  Margaret  (Colburn)  Mason, 
born  June  14,  1850,  at  Hinchin  Brook,  Province  of  Quebec ;  married 
Sept.  21,  1873,  Mary  J.,  daughter  of  Nathan  and  Mary  A.  (Whitcomb) 
Cummings  of  South  Gardner,  Mass.  She  was  born  Feb.  4,  1853.  He 
came  to  Lyndeborough  in  1886  and  bought  the  Jesse  Simonds  place  on 
the  mountain.  He  had  previously  been  employed  in  the  mills  at 
Manchester  as  wool  inspector.  He  was  supervisor  of  check  lists  for  one 
or  two  terms.  Children  :  — 

i.  &  2.  Curtis  P.  and  ROBERT  I,.,  (twins),  b.  Nov.  n,  1874. 
Robert  I,,  d.  March  18,  1875.  Curtis  P.  m.  May  17,  1899, 
Imogene,  dau.  of  Rodney  and  Josephine  (Edwards)  Ed- 
monds of  Wakefield,  Mass.  She  was  b.  Aug.  29,  1876. 
Children:  Lewis  R.,  b.  June  24,  1900,  d.  Jan.  2,  1901; 
Chester  C,,  b.  March  27,  1905. 

3.  &  4.  JENNIE  V.  and  ALBERT  C.  (twins),  b.  Aug.  23,  1876. 
Jennie  V.  m.  Nov.  24,  1898,  Charles  F.  Tirrell  of  Quincy, 
Mass.  Child  :  Philip  M.,  b.  Feb.  18,  1900.  Albert  C.  m. 
Jan.  9,  1901,  Ida  I/.,  dau.  of  Emery  and  Ella  (Russell) 
Holt.  She  was  born  May  26,  1881. 

5.  ROBERT  C.,  b.  July  10,  1890. 

McAUJSTER. 

GEORGE  S.  MCALLISTER  came  from  Nashua,  N.  H.,  May  i,  1873; 
moved  on  the  David  K.  Holt  place  in  Perham  Corner ;  born  in  Antrim, 
N.  H.,  Feb.  5,  1822;  married  first,  Martha  A.  Ferson  of  Francestown, 
June  9,  1850.  She  was  born  April  14,  1835  ;  died  Dec.  18,  1867.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Ellen  Pollard  of  Nashua,  N.  H.,  born  Dec.  7,  1832.  He  died 
March  22,  1904.  Child  by  first  wife :  — 

i.  GEORGE  F.,  b.  in  Bristol,  N.  H.,  Jan.  9,  1858. 


GENEALOGIES  807 

Child  by  second  wife  :  — 

2.  I,ULU   E.,    b.    Sept.  6,   1874,  m.    Elmer  B.    Parker.     (See 
Parker  gen.) 

McINTlRE. 

The  Mclntires  of  Lyndeborough  are  of  Scotch-Irish  origin,  descend- 
ants of  Phillip  Mclntire,  who  was  born  in  Scotland  in  1633,  and  came  to 
North  Reading,  Mass.,  in  1650,  probably  with  the  Scotch  prisoners  of  war 
banished  by  Cromwell.  He  was  married  Sept.  6,  1666,  and  had  a  son 
David,  who  married  Martha  Graves  in  1712.  Their  son,  David,  Jr.,  mar- 
ried Margaret  Buxton  of  Middleton,  Mass.,  and  was  the  father  of  Elias 
Sr.,  who  married  for  his  first  wife  Bethiah  Hayward  of  Andover,  Mass., 
and  for  his  second  wife  a  Miss  Underwood,  by  whom  he  had  eight  chil- 
dren. Elias,  Jr.,  only  son  of  Elias  Sr.,  and  Bethiah  (Hayward)  Mclntire, 
being  very  young  when  his  mother  died,  was  brought  up  in  the  family  of 
Nathaniel  Tay,  an  uncle  by  marriage.  He  was  born  Nov.  24,  1782  ;  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Buxton  of  North  Reading,  Mass.,  April  3,  1806.  She  was 
born  June  8,  1786,  and  died  April  22,  1866.  Her  father,  Stephen  Buxton, 
of  North  Reading,  Mass.,  marched  to  Concord  and  Lexington  in  John 
Bachellor's  company,  and  he  soon  afterward  enlisted  in  the  same  com- 
pany as  private,  and  served  three  years  and  fourteen  days  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary army. 

After  marriage  Mr.  Mclntire  removed  to  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  thence  to 
Nelson,  N.  H.,  thence  to  Amherst,  N.  H.,  coming  to  Lyndeborough  Jan. 
i,  1820,  where  he  bought  the  Kidder  place,  so  called.  This  place  is  on 
what  was  then  the  main  road  from  Nashua  to  Greenfield,  Hancock  and 
the  upper  towns.  He  opened  a  tavern,  and  as  prohibitory  laws  were  then 
unknown,  he  did  a  thriving  business.  The  old  sign  which  hung  from  a 
stout  post  in  front  of  the  house  is  still  in  existence,  and  bears  the  inscrip- 
tion, "  Elias  Mclntire  E.  Pluribus  Unum,  1820."  It  was  a  favorite  stopping 
place  for  teamsters  going  and  coming,  but  when  the  so-called  Forest  road 
was  completed  and  the  stage  route  changed,  its  patronage  ceased,  and  Mr. 
Mclntire  soon  gave  up  the  business  and  devoted  his  time  wholly  to  farm- 
ing. He  was  a  man  much  respected  in  the  community,  of  strong  relig- 
ions convictions,  and  a  devout  member  of  the  Congregational  church,  as 
was  his  wife.  He  died  Aug.  3,  1879,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-six 
years.  Children  :  — 

1.  CAROLINE   E.,   b.  at  Reading,   Mass.,   April   n,   1810,   m. 

Zephaniah  Kittredge  of  Mont  Vernon,  N.  H.,  March    19, 
1840,  d.  Aug.  4,  1878. 

2.  ELIAS  H.,  b.  Aug.  24,  1814,  at  Amherst,  m.  Clarinda  Mulle- 

kin  of  Manchester,  N.  H.,  Aug.  24,  1842,  d.  July  16,  1875. 

3.  PHEBE  J.,  born  at  Nelson,  N.  H.,  March  12,  1818,  m.  Ama- 

ziah  Wood  of  Manchester,  N.  H.,  March  9,   1844,  d.  Aug. 
18,  1845. 

4.  RACHEL  T.,  born  at  Nelson,  N.  H.,  Sept.  15,  1819,  m.  Mark 

Todd  of  New  Boston,  N.  H.,  Feb.  17,   1846,  d.  Jan.  n, 
1895. 


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9 

5.  NATHANIEL  T.,  + 

6.  HARVEY  G.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  July  2,  1824,  m.  Margaret 

McCrillis  of  Goshen,  N.  H.,  April  6,  1848,  rem.  to  Goshen, 
thence  to  Concord,  N.  H.,  where  he  d.  May  2,  1892.  He 
was  a  noted  physician. 

DBA.  NATHANIEL  T.  McINTIRE,  born  Nov.  26,  1822,  m.  Elizabeth 
Bruce  of  Mont  Vernon,  N.  H.,  April  12,  1848.  She  was  born  April  24, 
1825  ;  died  Feb.  2,  1903.  He  has  held  for  long  terms  of  years  many  posi- 
tions of  honor  and  trust  in  town.  A  man  of  strict  honesty  and  integrity, 
he  has  always  enjoyed  the  entire  confidence  of  the  community.  As  clerk 
and  treasurer  of  the  Congregational  church  he  long  managed  its  finances. 
He  was  town  treasurer  fifteen  years  and  president  of  the  local  insurance 
company  during  most  of  its  existence.  He  has  also  held  other  town 
office  ;  resides  on  the  homestead  farm.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndebor- 
ough :  — 

1.  MARY  C.,  b.  Feb.  28,  1851,  m.  Jay  M.  Gleason,  June,  1874, 

res.  at  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  H.     Children  :  Ernest,  Marian. 

2.  Lois  E.,  b.  Oct.  n,  1854. 

3.  HERBERT  B.,  b.  July  3,  1857,  graduate  of  Dartmouth  Col- 

lege, 1 88 1,  and  of  the  medical  school  of  the  University  of 
New  York,  m.  Ida  B.  Woodward  of  Marlborough,  N.  H., 
June  27,  1883.  Is  a  physician  and  res.  at  Cambridge, 
Mass.  Child  :  Ruth. 

MEL/ENDY. 

JOSEPH  MELENDY,  born  March,  1772 ;  died  Aug.  12,  1863.  Lived 
in  Lyndeborough  at  one  time  and  the  cellar  hole  where  his  house  stood 
is  south  of  George  W.  Parker's,  Perham  Corner.  He  was  twice  married. 
He  removed  to  Wilton.  Joseph,  a  son  by  his  first  wife,  lived  for  a  few 
years  in  Lyndeborough,  but  most  of  his  life  was  spent  in  Wilton.  He 
was  born  Oct.  10,  1799;  married  Jan.  13,  1823,  Susan  P.  Mantes  of  Mil- 
ford.  He  died  Jan.  16,  1847.  Abigail,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Melendy, 
married  April,  1828,  Joseph,  son  of  Oliver  and  Anna  (Pierce)  Perham. 

ALBERT  B.  MELENDY,  son  of  Joseph  and  Susan  (Mantes)  Me- 
lendy, born  Aug.  16,  1830;  married  May  24,  1855,  Rowena  J.  Buxton. 
Children :  — 

1.  AUGUSTUS  A.,  -}- 

2.  FLORA  A.,  b.  Dec.  12,  1857,  d.  July  5,  1877. 

3.  IDA  S.,  b.  Sept.  9,  1860. 

4.  FRED  H.,  b.  April  18,  1863. 

5.  HARRY  A.,  b.  Jan.  24,  1868. 

AUGUSTUS  A.  MELENDY,  son  of  Albert  B.  and  Rowena  (Buxton) 
Melendy,  born  April  14,  1856;  married  June  19,  1884,  Ada  M.,  daughter 
of  Charles  and  Lydie  M.  (Winslow)  Lothrop.  Her  mother  was  a  daugh- 


GENEALOGIES  809 

ter  of  a  soldier  of  the  War  of  1812,  and  a  grand-daughter  of  a  Revolu- 
tionary soldier.     Ada  M.   was  born   May  6,  1856.     He  is  a  successful 
farmer  and  resides  on   the  Andrew   Harwood   place,   Perham   Corner 
Child  :  — 

i.  RUBY  ROWENA,  b.  Nov,  10,  1892. 

MERRII,!,. 

REV.  NATHANIEL  MERRILL,  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Friend) 
Merrill,  born  Dec.  4,  1782,  at  Rowley,  now  Georgetown,  Mass.  He 
married  Betsey  Carpenter  of  Norwich,  Vt.,  Jan.  22,  1812.  He  died  at 
Georgetown,  Mass.,  July  4,  1839.  (For  biographical  sketch  see  P.  294.) 
Children  :  — 

1.  ALMON  C.,  b.  Nov.  19,  1812. 

2.  REV.  JAMES  H.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1814. 

3.  HARRIET,  b.  April  6,  1817. 

4.  SARAH,  b.  March  22,  1819. 

5.  NATHANIEL,  b.  April  6,  1821. 

MERRIU,. 

JAMES  W.  MERRILL  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Antrim,  in  1880, 
and  bought  the  Manley  Kidder  place,  North  Lyndeborough.  He  was 
born  at  Searsport,  Me.  ;  married  Hattie  E.  Tucker  of  Boston,  Mass. 
She  died  Feb.  4,  1891.  He  is  a  carpenter  by  trade.  Children  :  — 

1.  JAMES  W.,  JR.,  b.   at  Somerville,  Mass.,  July  22,  1870,  d. 

Jan.  20,  1894. 

2.  WII^ARD  N.,  -f- 

3.  FRED,  b.  Oct.  4,  1874,  at  Somerville,  Mass. 

4.  GEORGE  W.,  b.   Feb.    22,   1876,   at   Somerville,  Mass.,  m 

I^illian  Gokey,  Feb.   25,   1900.      Children  :  Walter  J.,  b. 
July  5,  1900;  Kenneth,  b.  Feb.  17,  1902. 

5.  SAMUEL  T.,  b.  Sept.  7,  1880,  at  Antrim,  d.  May  9.  1898. 

6.  HATTIE  E.,  b.  at  L/yndeborough,  Jan.  22,  1891. 

WILLARD  N.  MERRILL,  son  of  James  M.  and  Hattie  E.  (Tucker) 
Merrill,  born  Sept.  22,  1872,  at  Somerville,  Mass.;  married  March  28, 
1893,  Carrie  M.  Holt  of  Antrim,  b.  Oct.  21,  1874.  Children  :  — 

1.  GRACE  K.,  b.  June  24,  1893. 

2.  PERCY  J.,  b.  July  29,  1895. 

3.  EDITH  M.,  b.  Nov.  25,  1898. 

4.  ARTHUR  F.,  b.  May  17,  1901. 

MILDER. 

BENJAMIN  B.  MILLER  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Sutton,  N.  H.; 
born  July  20,  1826;  married  Nancy  Boutwell  of  Amherst  June  26,  1856. 
She  was  born  March  n,  1824,  and  is  living  at  the  date  of  this  writing. 


810  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

Although  of  advanced  years,  her  memory  of  events  in  Lyndeborough  in 
the  old  days  is  very  clear,  and  she  is  one  of  the  few  left  who  remember 
the  former  generation  of  Lyndeborough  people.     He  died  July  26,  1858. 
Child  :  - 

i.  GEORGIA  A.,  b.  Feb.  6,  1857. 

MILLER. 

JOHN  CLARK  MILLER,  son  of  Eliphalet  and  Mary  (Clark)  Miller; 
born  at  Frankfort,  Me.,  Dec.  21,  1831.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  March 
31,  1893,  and  bought  a  farm  west  of  South  Lyndeborough.  He  married 
first,  Mercy  M.  Wood  of  Anson,  Me.,  in  1857.  They  had  one  daughter, 
Sarah  May  Miller,  born  Nov.  19,  1863.  (See  Cheever  gen.)  He  married 
second,  Susan  Mclntyre  of  Damariscotta,  Me.,  Oct.  21,  1866;  married 
third,  Mrs.  Annie  M.  Florentine  of  Taunton,  Mass.,  June  5,  1901.  Mrs. 
Florentine  had  one  daughter  by  her  first  marriage,  Eugenie  Beatrice,  born 
Aug.  7,  1887. 

MOORE. 

Cyrus  Moore  born  in  Sharon,  N.  H.,  June  20,  1805 ;  married  Harriet  M. 
Kidder,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Martha  (Karr)  Kidder,  Oct.  22,  1839. 
She  was  born  Aug.  n,  1821  ;  died  Jan.  21,  1894.  He  died  Dec.  28,  1856. 
Child :  - 

i.  HARRIET  A.,  b.  in  Sharon,  N.  H.,  Nov.  12,  1845. 
FRED,  b.  Nov.  n,  1866. 

MORSE. 

MARK  E.  MORSE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  (Huntington)  Morse; 
born  in  Francestown  Oct.  22,  1843 ;  married  Jan.  30,  1871,  Sarah  E., 
daughter  of  Oliver  and  Sally  (Savage)  Harris.  She  was  born  at  Frances- 
town  Aug.  3,  1840.  He  died  Jan.  i,  1904.  Children  :  — 

1.  HARRY  H.,  -j- 

2.  ADDIE,  b.  Sept.  29,  1879,  d.  Jan.  23,  1904. 

HARRY  H.  MORSE,  son  of  Mark  E.  and  Sarah  (Harris)  Morse  ;  born 
July  7,  1872 ;  married  Nov.  5,  1895,  Alice  R.,  daughter  of  William  L.  and 
Temperance  (Cutts)  Needham.  She  was  born  July  24,  1856.  Child :  — 

i.  CLARENCE  E.,  b.  Oct.  23,  1897. 

MURCH. 

GEORGE  MURCH,  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Jameson)  Murch  ;  born 
at  Castine,  Me.,  Nov.  7,  1843;  married  Feb.  17,  1886,  Isabelle,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Jane  (Webb)  Parmenter  of  China,  Me.  She  was  born  Feb. 
14,  1846.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  resided  at 
the  Artemas  Woodward  place  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Civil  War. 

NEEDHAM. 
WILLIAM  L.  NEEDHAM,  born  in  Hollis,  N.  H.,  June  29,  1823;  died 


GENEALOGIES  811 

Sept.  13,  1873  ;  married  June  13,  1848,  Temperance  Cutts  of  Goshen,  N.H. 
She  was  born  Oct.  4,  1816.  Children  :  — 

1.  WARREN  F.,  b.  July  9,  1851,  d.  March  8,  1895. 

2.  HANNAH  M.,  b.  April  i,  1854,  d.  July  3,  1862. 

3.  ALICE   R.,  b.  July  24,    1856,    m.    Harry  H.  Morse.     (See 

Morse  gen.) 

4.  ADDIE  Iy.,  b.  Feb.  6,  1859,  d.  March  26,  1874. 

NEWELL. 

JOHN  NEWELL  settled  in  Lyndeborough  and  was  a  miller  where  the 
Colburn,  or  Buttrick,  mill  is.  But  little  information  is  available  about 
him.  It  is  said  of  him  that  he  ran  a  circular  saw  for  over  fifty  years  and 
never  received  an  injury  sufficient  to  draw  blood.  He  was  the  first  in- 
ventor of  the  spiral  wire  spring  bed,  and  has  invented  or  aided  in  per- 
fecting many  useful  articles.  He  married  first,  Dec.  14,  1847,  Eliza  J., 
daughter  of  John  and  Sally  (Tinker)  Gage.  She  was  born  Feb.  24,  1832  ; 
died  Aug.  18,  1856.  He  married  second,  Jan.  25,  1854,  Harriet  Gage,  a  sis- 
ter of  his  first  wife.  She  was  born  Feb.  3,  1820;  died  July  3,  1874.  Chil- 
dren by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  ELIZA  J.,  b.  Nov.  24,   1850,  m.  Aug.  22,   1866,  Charles  H. 

L,ee,  res.  at  Hancock. 

2.  CHARLES  M.,  d.  Aug.  2,  1853. 
Children  by  second  wife  :  — 

3.  HARRIET. 

4.  IDA  B. 

NICHOLS. 

WILLIAM  E.  NICHOLS,  son  of  John  W.  and  Lavisa  (Allard)  Nichols ; 
born  Jan.  23,  1873;  married  March  14,  1900,  Florence  A.,  daughter  of 
Henry  H.  and  Deborah  J.  (Smith)  Joslin.  She  was  born  March  18,  1883. 
Children :  — 

1.  FLORENCE  E.,  b.  March  21,  1901. 

2,  JOHN  W.,  b.  Oct.  n,  1902. 

ORDWAY. 

JOHN  ORDWAY,  born  Sept.  27,  1736;  died  at  Lyndeborough,  April 

13,  1827;  married  Mary .  She  was  born  Aug.  15,  1736;  died  at 

Lyndeborough,  Sept.  u,  1817.  He  was  the  first  of  the  Ordway  family  to 
come  to  Lyndeborough.  He  settled  on  the  mountain  on  land  which  is 
now  the  farms  known  as  the  Moses  Chenery  place,  where  Charles  J.  Cum- 
mings  now  lives,  and  the  Pratt  place,  now  owned  by  David  G.  Dickey. 
Afterward  the  family  bought  the  land  now  generally  known  as  the  Ord- 
way place. 

It  is  probable  that  John  Ordway  was  twice  married,  and  that  there 
were  children  by  the  second  marriage.  Huse  Karr  married  Sally  Ord- 
way, and  she  was  probably  a  descendant  of  a  child  by  the  second  mar- 


812  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

riage.  We  have  tried  in  vain  to  find  some  more  complete  record  of  this 
first  of  the  Ordway  family  of  Lyndeborough.  He  was  undoubtedly  one 
of  the  very  earliest  settlers  on  the  Mountain  side.  Children  :  — 

1.  TIMOTHY,  -}- 

2.  JAMES,  -f 

3.  FANNIE,  b.  Sept.  3,  1771,  d.  1858. 

4.  AMOS,  b.  Feb.  20,  1773. 

5.  ENOCH. 

6.  MOSES. 

7.  TRUSTIM. 

8.  JOHN,  b.  March  7,  1778. 

Enoch  Ordway,  2nd,  married  June  29,   1824,  Hannah  Whit- 
ing, both  of  kyndeborough. 

TIMOTHY  ORDWAY,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Ordway,  born  Nov.  22, 

1767 ;  married  Phebe  ;  born  Nov.   13,   1765.     He  died  March  20, 

1853.     She  died  Jan.  10,  1851.     Children:  — 

1.  ENOCH,  b.  Aug.  5,  1794,  d.  May  15,  1833. 

2.  TIMOTHY,  -(- 

3.  PHEBE,  b.  June  27,  1802. 

4.  JONATHAN  I.,  b.  Jan.  6,  1810,  d.  Feb.  5,  1829. 

TIMOTHY  ORDWAY,  son  of  Timothy  and  Phebe  ,  born  Oct. 

25,  1796;  married  March  23,  1824,  Susan,  daughter  of  William  and  Jane 
(Quigley)  McAlvin  of  Francestown.  She  was  born  May  28,  1798  ;  died 
Jan.  17,  1879.  He  died  March  10,  1882.  Children  :  — 

1.  MARY  ELIZABETH,  b.  June  28,  1824,  d.  March  22,  1897. 

2.  PHEBE    JANE,    b.    May   28,    1826,    m.  Charles  Woodward. 

(See  Woodward  gen.) 

3.  MOSES  G.  W.,  b.  Aug.  26,  1829,  d.  Feb.  27,  1852. 

4.  MARTHA  ANNA,  b.  April  4,  1831. 

5.  JOHN  C.,  -f- 

6.  WIGWAM,  b.  Oct.  8,  1837,  m.  Olive  Mansfield. 

7.  JAMES,  b.  Feb.  22,  1840. 
Walter  Ordway,  b.  July  29,  1850. 

Mary  Jane  Ordway,  b.  Oct.  26,  1865,  m.  G.  H.  Hodkin. 

Res.  at  Temple. 
Josie  Ordway,  b.  June  28,  1867. 

JOHN  C.  ORDWAY,  son  of  Timothy  and  Susan  (McAlvin)  Ordway, 
born  Nov.  18,  1834;  married  Oct.  18,  1860,  Phebe  A.,  daughter  of  William 
and  Ann  B.  (Pierce)  Metcalf  of  Medford,  Mass.  She  was  born  July  25, 
1840.  After  his  marriage  he  lived  for  a  time  on  the  homestead  farm,  and 
later  bought  the  Bixby  or  Farrington  place  at  the  centre.  In  1886  he  re- 
moved to  Milford.  Children  :  — 


GENEALOGIES  813 

1.  WILLIS  E.,  b.  April  19,  1865,  m.  Jan.  25,  1897,  Mrs.  Nellie 

Gibbard  of    Winchendon,   Mass.     Works  for  the  Charles 
Blake  Piano  Co.     Res.  at  Roxbury,  Mass. 

2.  NELLIE  B.,  b.  Dec.    12,  1867,  m.  April  29,  1886,  Ernest  B. 

Peabody  of  Milford.    Two  children  :  Hazel  A.  and  Helen  N. 

3.  L/ENA  G.,  b.  Jan.  20,  1883. 

JAMBS  ORDWAY,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Ordway;  born  Sept.  27, 
1769;  married  Dec.  22,  1791,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Rev.  Sewall  and  Phebe 
(Putnam)  Goodrich.  She  was  born  Jan.  18,  1772;  died  July  9,  1852.  He 
died  Sept.  13,  1804.  Children  :  — 

1.  SEWALL  G.,  b.  Dec.  28,  1796. 

2.  JOHN,  b.  Jan.  22,  1800. 

OSGOOD. 

ROBERT  B.  OSGOOD,  born  April  13,  1792;  married  Aug.  24,  1814, 
Susannah  Senter  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  June  29,  1792  ;  died 
March  n,  1883.  He  died  Sept.  28,  1870.  Mr.  Osgood  lived  for  many 
years  on  a  small  farm  a  few  rods  west  of  the  Nathan  Richardson  place. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812.  He  was  a  one-armed  man,  and 
much  given  to  fishing  the  trout  brooks  of  the  town.  He  was  an  expert 
in  that  sport  and  was  successful  where  others  failed.  Children  :  — 

1.  DAVID  W.,  b.  June  12,  1818,  d.  Feb.  6,  1891. 

2.  ELIZABETH  A.,  b.  Sept.  4,  1822,  d.  Nov.  21,  1844. 

3.  MARY  A.,  b.  April  16,  1826,  m.  Edwin  Willoby  of  Milford, 

d.  Aug.  16,  1882. 

4.  SUSAN  M.,  b.  May  2,  1828,  m.  Gardner  Bowen. 

5.  ANSON  A.,  b.  Sept.  20,   1831.     Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 

War.     Res.  in  Hudson,  N.  H: 

PALMER. 

CAPT.  ASA  PALMER  came  from  Pelham,  N.  H.,  in  1812,  and  settled 
on  a  farm  at  North  Lyndeborough.  He  was  born  Aug.  2,  1773 ;  died 
Aug.  24,  1851 ;  married  Mary  Fletcher  of  Pelham,  May  12,  1802.  She 
was  born  Sept.  20,  1780;  died  July  25,  1857.  Children  :  — 

1.  DAVID  F.,  b.  in  Pelham,  Feb.  27,  1803,  d.  June  30,  1868. 

He   was  pastor  of    Royal   Oak    Presbyterian    Church   in 
Marion,  Va.,  for  twenty-four  years. 

2.  ASA,  b.  in  Pelham,  Oct.  22,  1804,  m.  Mary  A.  Dow. 

3.  EBEN,  + 

4.  THERON,  -f- 

5.  WILLIAM  H.,  b.  in  Pelham,  m.  Eliza  Newhall. 

6.  JOSEPH  B.,  b.  in  L/yndeborough,  June   12,  1813,  d.  Oct.    i, 

1860. 

7.  MOSES,  b.  in  L/yndeborough,  Nov.  28,  1815,  d.  in  infancy. 


814  H1STOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

8.  CHARLES,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  April  7,  1817,  m.  Caroline 

Newhall. 

9.  MARY  E.,  b.   in  Lyndeborough,   April  15,   1820,   m.    John 

McLaughlin.     Res.  in  Claremont. 

10.  MOSES,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  March  21,  1826,  d.  in  infancy. 

EBEN  PALMER,  son  of  Asa  and  Mary  (Fletcher)  Palmer,  born  in 
Pelham,  N.  H.,  Feb.  7,  1807 ;  married  Sarah  J.,  daughter  of  Nehemiah 
and  Elizabeth  (Jones)  Boutwell  of  Lyndeborough,  Jan.  31,  1839.  She 
was  born  July  15,  1818;  died  Jan.  30,  1841.  He  died  March  16,  1849. 
Child :  - 

i.  EBEN  J.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 
War  and  d.  at  Baton  Rogue,  La.,  June  30,  1863.  (See 
Chap.  X.) 

THERON  PALMER,  son  of  Asa  and  Mary  (Fletcher)  Palmer,  born  in 
Pelham,  Feb.  25,  1809;  died  March  12,  1879;  married  Nov.  21,  1837, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Isaiah  and  Deborah  (Clark)  Parker.  She  was  born 
in  Lyndeborough,  July  4,  1813;  died  Feb.  20,  1841.  They  removed  to 
Salem,  Mass.  Child:  — 

i.  THERON,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  d.  April  i,  1841. 

PARKER. 

JONATHAN  PARKER  settled  at  North  Lyndeborough  on  what  is 
known  as  the  "tavern  stand,"  where  George  Barnes  now  lives.  He 
married  Hannah  Clark,  daughter  of  Maj.  Peter  Clark  of  Revolutionary 
fame.  Little  can  be  learned  about  him.  There  were  several  children 
born  to  them  but  there  is  record  of  only  one,  Willard,  who  was  born  in 
Lyndeborough,  Sept.  2,  1800.  He  became  a  very  noted  surgeon,  was 
graduated  at  Harvard  College  *in  1826,  commenced  the  study  of  medr 
cine  under  John  C.  Warren  in  Harvard  University,  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.D.  in  1830.  He  was  appointed  professor  of  anatomy  in  the 
Vermont  Medical  College.  In  1836  he  was  appointed  professor  of  sur- 
gery in  the  Cincinnati  Medical  College,  and  afterward  spent  some  time 
in  the  hospitals  of  London  and  Paris.  In  1839,  he  became  professor  of 
surgery  in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New  York  City, 
which  place  he  resigned  after  a  service  of  30  years.  In  1865,  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  New  York  State  Inebriate  Asylum  at  Binghamton, 
succeeding  the  celebrated  Dr.  Valentine  Mott.  In  1870  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.  D.  from  Princeton  College.  He  died  April  25,  1884. 

ISAIAH  PARKER,  born  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  March  31,  1778.  Came 
to  Lyndeborough  in  1807 ;  married  Deborah  Clark,  daughter  of  Maj. 
Peter  Clark,  Dec.  2,  1801.  She  was  born  May  30,  1782  ;  died  Nov.  2, 
1857.  He  died  June  22,  1859.  Children  :  — 

1.  DEBORAH,  b.  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  April  u,  1803.     Thrown 

from  a  wagon  and  killed  Dec.  13,  1827. 

2.  CHARLES,  + 


GENEALOGIES  815 

3.  ELMIRA,  b.  in    L/yndeborough,   July    17,    1808,  d.    Feb.    4, 

1809. 

4.  HANNAH,  b.    in   L/yndeborough,  July  4,    1813,  m.   Theron 

Palmer  of  Lyndeborough,  Nov.  21,  1837.     Rem.  to  Salem, 
Mass.,  d.  Feb.  20,  1841. 

5.  ANNA,  b.   in  Lyndeborough,  March  15,   1816,   d.  April  4, 

1816. 

CHARLES  PARKER,  son  of  Isaiah  and  Deborah  (Clark)  Parker,  was 
born  May  24,  1805  ;  married  first,  Abigail  W.  Jones,  daughter  of  Benja- 
min and  Chloe  (Farrington)  Jones,  Oct.  18,  1827.  She  was  born  Aug.  15, 
1804  ;  died  Sept.  8,  1846.  Married  second,  Eliza  A.  Fuller,  daughter  of 
Andrew  and  Hannah  (Chenery)  Fuller,  Feb.  10,  1848.  She  was  born 
Dec.  7,  1825  ;  died  July  19,  1900,  at  Manchester,  N.  H.  He  lived  on  the 
turnpike  road  where  H.  D.  Gage  now  lives.  He  was  representative  to 
the  General  Court  in  1855.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  CHARLES  H.,  b.  Oct.  15,  1829,  d.  Sept.  i,  1853. 

2.  ISAIAH  C.,  b.  March  25,  1832.     Was  in  U.  S.  Navy  during 

the  Civil  War.     Res.  in  the  west. 

3.  HANNAH  D.,  b.   Dec.    i,    1834,  m.  William   W.   Curtis  of 

Lyndeborough.     (See  Curtis  gen.) 

4.  ANN  M.,  b.  Feb.  21,  1843,  d.  Nov.   12,  1843. 
Children  by  second  wife :  — 

5.  MINA  M.,  b.  Dec.  16,  1850,  d.  March  22,  1853. 

6.  GEORGE  H.,  b.  Aug.  10,  1854.     Res.  in  Manchester,  N.  H. 

PARKER. 

JOSIAH  M.  PARKER  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Amherst,  N.  H., 
in  1856,  and  settled  on  the  farm  Lot  19  in  "Perhatn  Corner."  He  was 
born  in  Hollis,  Sept.  20,  1804 ;  died  Aug.  10,  i885  ;  married  Maria  Cash 
of  Amherst.  She  was  born  Oct.  9,  1809.  Children,  all  born  in  Am- 
herst :  — 

1.  SARAH  M.,  b.  October,  1834. 

2.  EDMUND  J.,  -|- 

3.  ABBIE  R.,  b.    April   25,   1839,    m.    Harvey  Perham.     (See 

Perham  gen.) 

4.  JOHN  T.,  + 

5.  ADDIE  M.,  b.  August,  1841. 

6.  GEORGE  W.,  + 

7.  AMELIA  L.,  b.  April,  1844,  d.  Dec.  6,  1859. 

EDMUND  J.  PARKER,  son  of  Josiah  and  Maria  (Cash)  Parker,  born 
Jan.  16,  1834 ;  married  first,  Lizzie  Howe  of  Nashua,  Jan.  20,  1869.  She 
was  born  Dec.  23,  1846  ;  died  July  26,  1872  ;  married  second,  Lydia  Coffin 
of  Nashua,  N.  H.,  May  6,  1873.  She  was  born  Aug.  26,  1845.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X.)  Children:  Myrtie  A., 
Gary  E. 


816  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

JOHN  T.  PARKER,  son  of  Josiah  and  Maria  (Cash)  Parker,  born 
June  29,  1837  ;  married  first,  Rhoda  Brown  of  Auburn,  N.  H.,  Nov.  28, 
1867.  She  was  born  Dec.  6,  1840;  died  Jan.  3,  1869;  married  second, 
Sarah  Smith  of  Milford,  N.  H.,  June  2,  1869.  She  was  born  June  26, 
1849.  Children  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  GRACE  E.,  b.  June  14,  1874. 

2.  CORA  I/.,  b.  Nov.  13,  1876. 

GEORGE  W.  PARKER,  son  of  Josiah  M.  and  Maria  (Cash)  Parker, 
b.  Dec.  25,  1843  ;  married  Sybil  P.,  daughter  of  Asa  and  Elizabeth  (Good- 
win) Blanchard  of  I/yndeborough,  Dec.  7,  1867.  She  was  born  Oct.  6, 
1838.  What  is  known  as  "  Perham  Corner"  is  the  largest  fruit-growing 
section  of  the  town.  Nearly  every  farmer  there  is  more  or  less  engaged 
in  it,  and  Mr.  Parker  has  as  extensive  orchards  as  any  if  not  the 
most  extensive.  His  trees  are  carefully  cultivated  and  fertilized  and 
when  the  winters  are  favorable  has  immense  crops  of  peaches,  plums, 
etc.  There  is  a  spring  on  his  farm,  the  waters  of  which  are  said  to  be 
medicinal  t»  a  considerable  extent.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War. 
(See  Chap.  X.)  Children :  - 

1.  WALTER  G.,  + 

2.  ELMER  B.,  -j- 

3.  FRED  B.,  b.  Feb.  20,  1875. 

WALTER  G.  PARKER,  son  of  George  W.  and  Sybil  (Blanchard) 
Parker,  born  April  21,  1867;  married  Alice  M.,  daughter  of  George  M. 
and  Maria  (Colburn)  Bradley,  June  4,  1895.  Child  :  — 

i.  EDITH  lyOuisE,  b.  Aug.  16,  1901. 

ELMER  B.  PARKER,  son  of  George  W.  and  Sybil  (Blanchard) 
Parker,  born  Jan.  19,  1872;  married  April  19,  1893,  Lulu  E.,  daughter  of 
George  S.  and  Ellen  Pollard  McAllister  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was 
born  Sept.  6,  1874.  Children  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  CLARA  I,OUISE,  b.  Jan.  20,  1896,  d,  July  14,  1896. 

2.  HAROLD  POLLARD,  b.  July  22,  1897. 

3.  ROLAND  ELMER,  b.  Sept.  4,  1900. 

4.  GEORGE  A.,  b.  April  9,  1904. 

PARRY. 

EDWARD  PARRY,  born  Dec.  20,  1827  ;  married  Nov.  26,  1855,  Sarah 
E.,  daughter  of  Aran  and  Betsey  (Loring)  Youlen.  She  was  born  April 
ir,  1837,  in  Boston.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Boston  in  1887  and 
settled  on  the  E.  P.  Spalding  place.  He  died  Jan.  27,  1905.  Children  :  — 

1.  HENRIETTA  G.,  b.  Dec.  n,  1859,  d.  July  30,  1867. 

2.  EDITH  F.,  b.  Jan.  16,  1861. 

3.  JAMES  E.,  b.  Aug.  20,  1863. 

4.  L,ois  M.,  b.  March  13,  1869,  d.  May  4,  1875. 


GENEALOGIES  817 

PATCH. 

DBA.  ABRAM  PATCH,  b.  April  3,  1798 ;  married  first,  Dec.  2,  1819, 
Sally  Dodge  of  Wenham,  Mass.  She  was  born  March  15,  1800 ;  died  Oct. 
27,  1863;  married  second,  Oct.  27,  1864,  Phebe,  daughter  of  Dea.  Benja- 
min and  Sarah  (Clark)  Goodrich.  She  was  born  Dec.  24,  1818,  and  died 
May  10,  1904.  He  died  Aug.  8,  1880,  at  Danvers,  Mass.  He  lived  on  the 
Edward  Page  Spalding  place  north  of  the  mountain.  He  came  to 
Lyndeborough  from  Beverly,  Mass.,  about  1824.  He  was  probably  the 
third  owner  of  the  above-mentioned  farm,  E.  P.  Spalding  being  the 
fourth.  Mr.  Patch  was  a  quiet,  retiring  man,  of  a  deeply  religious 
nature,  and  was  esteemed  and  respected  in  the  community.  Of  his  chil- 
dren, all  by  his  first  wife,  the  four  younger  were  born  in  Lyndeborough. 
Children :  — 

1.  ANNA  D.,  b.  in  Wenham,  Mass.,  March  17,  1820,  m.  Dec. 

22,    1842,  William  Peabody  of    Wenham,  Mass.     She  d. 
Dec.  5,  1861. 

2.  ABRAM,   b.  Jan.    2,    1822,  at   Beverly,    Mass.,    m.   June  7, 

1843,  Harriet  N.  Kimball  of  Hamilton,  Mass.     He  d.  Sept. 
4,  1900. 

3.  JOSEPH,  b.   April   16,   1823,  at  Beverly,  Mass.,  d.  June  17, 

1851. 

4.  SARAH,  b.  May  30,  1825,  d.  Oct.  n,  1841. 

5.  MARY  C.,  b.  June   25,    1827,   m.    Aug.    5,    1858,    Thomas 

Hoyt  of  Beverly,  Mass.     She  d.  Nov.  28,  1877. 

6.  ELIZABETH  M.,  b.  Nov.  7,  1828,  m.  March  14,  1848,  Enoch 

F.  Knowlton  of  Hamilton,  Mass. 

7.  MARTHA,  b.  June  27,  1831,  m.  March  20,  1849,  George  W. 

Parsons  of  Gloucester,  Mass.,  d.  Sept.  14,  1885. 

PATCH. 

EDWIN  N.  PATCH,  born  in  Hollis,  N.  H.,  July  15,  1824;  married 
Olive,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Abbott)  Chamberlain  of  Lynde- 
borough, Sept.  23,  1847.  She  was  born  Jan.  20,  1828;  died  Oct.  9,  1898. 
He  died  June  9,  1892.  Mr.  Patch  was  a  quiet,  unassuming  man,  highly 
respected  by  all  who  knew  him.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Hollis, 
N.  H.,  in  1845,  an<i  bought  the  farm  where  Joseph  Chamberlain  first 
built.  He  was  a  very  industrious  man  and  much  improved  the  property. 
Children  :  — 

1.  MILDRED,  b.  Sept.  9,  1848,  d.  Sept.  18,  1848. 

2.  EDWIN  O.,  + 

3.  IDA  B.,  b.  May  28,  1857. 

4.  AMELIA  O.,  b.  April  29,  1860. 

EDWIN  ORLANDO  PATCH,  son  of  Edwin  and  Olive  (Chamberlain) 
Patch,  born  Aug.  n,  1851  ;  married  first,  Lizzie  P.,  daughter  of  Rev. 


818  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

Erastus  B.  Claggett ;  married  second,  Augusta  S.  Trundy  of  Addison, 
Me,  Nov.  8,  1887.     She  was  born  Dec.  12,  1858. 

PATTERSON. 

Walter  C.  Patterson,  son  of  William  and  Mary  I/.  (Smith)  Patterson  of 
Wilton ;  married  Nov.  24,  1886,  Sylvia  Irene  Cram,  daughter  of  Charles 
H.  and  Sarah  (Van  Buskirk)  Cram.  She  was  born  at  Lacon,  111.,  June  28, 
1864.  Children  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  ETHEL  E.,  b.  March  18,  1888. 

2.  LEON  A.,  b.  Jan.   17,  1893. 

PEARSONS. 

AMOS  PEARSONS  of  Reading,  Mass.,  married  in  1758,  Elizabeth 
Nichols  of  Reading.  She  was  born  1732.  Children  :  — 

1.  ABIGAIL,  m.  Timothy  Pearsons. 

2.  HIRAM,  m.  in  Vermont. 

3.  AMOS;  m. Balch. 

4.  ELIZABETH,  m.  Micah  Barren  of  Lyndeborough. 

5.  EBEN,  + 

6.  DIDYMUS,  m.  Sarah  Elliott  in  Amherst. 

7.  DANIEL,  + 

EBEN  PEARSONS,  son  of  Amos  and  Elizabeth  (Nichols)  Pearsons ; 
born  in  Reading,  Mass.,  June  19,  1768  ;  married  Sept.  8,  1791,  Esther  Holt 
of  Wilton.  She  was  born  July  25,  1766  ;  died  July  15,  1839.  He  died  May 
22,  1852.  Children  :  — 

1.  ESTHER,  b.  in  Wilton,  Nov.  n,  1792,  m.  Ephraim  Putnam. 

(See  Putnam  gen.) 

2.  EBENEZER,  -+- 

3.  ABIGAIL,    b.  in  Wilton  Aug.  16,   1800,  m.  Mark   Hadley. 

(See  Hadley  gen.) 

4.  WILLARD,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  May  21,   1806,  m.  Aug.  8, 

1833,  Ann  P.  Child  of  Medford,  Mass.,  rem.  to  Woburn, 
Mass.,  d.  March  31,  1841.  Child:  Julia  A.,  Abbie  F., 
Mary  M. 

EBENEZER  PEARSONS,  son  of  Eben  and  Esther  (Holt)  Pear- 
sons ;  born  in  Lyndeborough  Jan.  21,  1797 ;  married  Joanna,  daughter  of 
James  and  Sarah  (Hnse)  Karr.  She  was  born  April  6,  1803 ;  died  Aug.  5, 
1874.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  EBENEZER  BROOKS,  + 

2.  JOANNA  A.,  b.  Oct.  15,   1829,  m.  Levi  H.  Carter,  rem.  to 

Lawrence,  Mass. 

3.  SARAH  A.,  b.   March  29,    1832,  m.  Richard  Kent  of  Law- 

rence, Mass. 


GENEALOGIES  819 

4.  JAMES  P.,  b.  July  21,  1834,  m.  Amelia  Drake  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C. 

EBENEZER  BROOKS  PEARSONS,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Joanna  (Karr) 
Pearsons ;  born  Jan.  23,  1827 ;  married  March  17,  1850,  Cyrene  Towns  of 
Newfield,  Me.  She  was  born  1827 ;  died  in  Hancock,  Feb.  26,  1854. 
Children :  — 

1.  C^ARA  M.,  b.  in  I^awrence,  Mass,,  Dec.  23,  1850. 

2.  ELIZA  B.,  b.  in  I/yndeborough  Aug.  20,  1852. 

DANIEL  PEARSONS,  son  of  Amos  and  Elizabeth  (Nichols)  Pearsons ; 
born  in  Reading,  Mass.,  1764;  married  Patience  Kimball,  born  1763. 

There  is  some  question  whether  Daniel  Pearsons  was  ever  a  resident 
of  Lyndeborough.  The  writer  can  find  no  record  to  show  that  he  was, 
but  some  of  his  descendants  think  he  was  and  that  some  of  his  chil- 
dren were  born  here.  Jesse,  one  of  the  sons,  married  Betsey,  daughter 
of  Nehemiah  and  Elizabeth  (Jones)  Boutwell  of  Lyndeborough.  Han- 
nah, a  daughter,  married  Daniel  Chamberlain,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Cram)  Chamberlain  of  Lyndeborough.  Children:  — 

1.  BETSY,  m.  George  Reed  of  Woburn,  Mass. 

2.  AMOS,  rem.  to  New  York. 

3.  HARRIET. 

4.  SAI,I,Y. 

5.  JESSE,  m.  Betsey  Boutwell. 

6.  HANNAH,  m.  Daniel  Chamberlain,  d.  July  29,  1873. 

7.  JOHN,  b.  1792,  rem.  to  Bradford,  Vt. 

PERHAM. 

OLIVER  PERHAM  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  (See  Chap.  VII.) 
Soon  after  the  close  of  the  war  he  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Chelms- 
ford,  Mass.,  and  settled  in  the  southeast  part  of  the  town  since  known 
as  "Perham  Corner."  He  was  born  in  1761  and  died  Dec.  5,  1846.  He 
married  first,  Mary  Pierce  ;  married  second,  Anna  Pierce.  Anna  and 
Mary  were  sisters,  and  relatives  of  Gov.  Pierce  of  New  Hampshire. 
The  dates  of  their  birth  and  death  are  not  in  the  records  given  us,  nor 
do  we  know  just  when  Oliver  Perham  came  to  Lyndeborough.  Children, 
all  by  Anna  (Pierce)  Perham :  — 

1.  OLIVER  2ND.,  -f- 

2.  JOHN,  -(- 

3.  SAMUEL,  b.  Sept.  20,  1793. 

4.  ASA,  b.  Aug.  12,  1795,  m.  Anna  A.  Gray  of  Wilton. 

5.  JOSEPH,  b.  Sept.    17,   1802,  m.  Abigail  Melendy  of  Wilton. 

6.  DAVID,  -\- 

7.  WILLIAM,  b.  Oct.  30,  1808. 

8.  ANNA,  b.  May  20,  1812,  m.  Charles  :H/  Holt  of  Lyndebor- 

ough.    (SeejHolt  gen.) 


820  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

9.  &  10.  POLLY  and  JESSIE,  (twins),  d.  in  infancy. 

OLIVER  PERHAM,  son  of  Oliver  and  Anna  (Pierce)  Perham  ;  born 
July  9,  1788;  married  November,  1810,  Patty,  daughter  of  Joel  and  Polly 
(Coburn)  Holt  of  Wilton.  They  had  five  daughters  and  two  sons  born 
in  Wilton  :  Polly,  Dolly,  Anna,  Oliver,  Sarah  J.,  Joel  H.  and  Rachel. 

OLIVER  PERHAM,  son  of  Oliver  and  Patty  (Holt)  Perham,  born  in 
Wilton,  Nov.  17,  1819;  died  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  Feb.  24,  1879;  married 
Jan.  5,  1847,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  James  L.  and  Hannah  (Baldwin) 
Clark.  She  was  born  Feb.  26,  1824 ;  died  Dec.  15,  1893.  He  resided  part 
of  his  life  in  Lyndeborough  on  lot  60,  where  his  son,  Charles  I/.,  lives. 
Children :  — 

1.  GEORGE  O.,  b.  May  12,  1848,  d.  Aug.  19,  1849. 

2.  BROOKS  C.,  b.  Oct.  24,  1851,  d.  Feb.  9,  1853. 

3.  CHARLES  L,.,  -f 

4.  GEORGIANNA  B.,  b.  July  23,  1856,  d.  Sept.  30,  1871. 

5.  WILLIS  C.,  + 

CHARLES  LINDSEY  PERHAM,  son  of  Oliver  and  Rebecca  (Clark) 
Perham,  born  Jan.  3,  1854 ;  married  Feb.  16,  1878,  Emma,  daughter  of 
Joseph  H.  and  Harriet  N.  (Hopkins)  Tarbell  of  Mt.  Vernon.  She  was 
born  Aug.  29,  1855.  He  is  an  energetic  and  prosperous  farmer,  and  lives 
on  the  "Lindsey"  Clark  homestead,  lot  60.  Has  been  selectman  a 
number  of  terms  and  road  agent  for  several  years.  Child  :  — 

i.  BERTHA  GERTRUDE,  b.  Oct.   20,  1884,  m.  L/.  Nute  Wood- 
ward.    (See  Woodward  gen.) 

WILLIS  CLARK  PERHAM,  son  of  Oliver  and  Rebecca  (Clark)  Per- 
ham, born  July  18,  1859 ;  married  April  9,  1883,  Annie  S.,  daughter  of 
Solon  and  Eliza  (Jones)  Richardson  of  Lyndeborough.  She  died  Nov. 
16,  1896.  They  spent  the  early  part  of  their  married  life  in  Lyndebor- 
ough, but  on  account  of  Mrs.  Perham's  ill  health  removed  to  California, 
where  she  died.  He  resides  in  North  Pomona,  Cal. 

JOHN  PERHAM,  son  of  Oliver  and  Anna  (Pierce)  Perham,  born  June 
16,  1790;  married  Polly  Pearsons  of  Milford,  N.  H.  She  was  born  June 
3,  1792.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  2ND.,    b.    Dec.    26,   1817,    in  Cambridgeport,  Mass.. 

m.  Caroline  P.  Braman  of  Boston,  Nov.  13,  1841.  She 
was  b.  Nov.  17,  1816,  d.  Nov.  18,  1888.  He  d.  Aug.  31, 
1878. 

2.  OTIS,  b.  Dec.  27,  1819,  d.  Nov.  23,  1901. 

3.  EBEN,  b.  July  29,  1823,  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  d.  Oct.  23,  1849. 

4.  HARVEY,  -f- 

HARVEY  PERHAM,  son  of  John  and  Polly  (Pearsons)  Perham,  born 
Sept.  i,  1826;  married  Feb.  10,  1862,  Abbie  R.,  daughter  of  Josiah  M. 


GENEALOGIES  82 1 

and  Maria  (Cash)  Parker.     She  was  born  April  25,  1839,  in  Amherst,  N. 
H.     He  died  Jan.  29,  1902.     Children  :  — 

1.  MINNIE  A.,  b.  July  22,  1865,  d.  June  26,  1893. 

2.  WlI^ARD    H.,    -j- 

3.  NETTIE  A.,  b.  Aug.  i,  1872. 

4.  JOHN  I,.,  b.  Nov.  9,  1876. 

WILLARD  H.  PERHAM,  son  of  Harvey  and  Abbie  R.  (Parker)  Per- 
ham,  born  Sept.  20,  1867 ;  married  V.  Kate,  daughter  of  James  M.  and 
Melissa  (I/ang)  Jackson  of  Amherst,  Oct.  14,  1899. 

DAVID  PERHAM,  son  of  Oliver  and  Anna  (Pierce)  Perham,  born 
April  28,  1805;  married  Lucy  W.  Symonds  of  Milford,  Jan.  15,  1835. 
She  was  born  Oct.  16,  1814.  He  died  April  20,  1873.  Removed  to  Mil- 
ford,  April  30,  1860.  Children  born  in  I/yndeborough  :  — 

i.  L,UCY  J.,  b.  May  9,  1836. 

i.  HANNAH  S.,  b.  Feb.  27,  1838,  d.  June  30,  1850. 

3.  DAVID  M.,  b.  March  10,  1844. 

4.  MARY  A.,  b.  June  3,  1846,  d.  Jan.  18,  1859. 

5.  J.  PIERCE,  b.  July  30,  1848,  d.  Nov.  8,  1879. 

PERSONS. 

MOSES  PERSONS  was  the  oldest  son  of  Moses  Persons  of  Wilming- 
ton, Mass.,  who  was  a  private  in  the  company  of  Capt.  Cadwalder  Ford. 
Enlisted  as  a  minute  man  March  9,  1775.  He  served  twenty-one  days 
and  then  re-enlisted  and  served  to  the  credit  of  the  town  of  Wilmington 
until  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  was  a  volunteer  and  went 
to  Portsmouth  in  the  War  of  1812. 

Moses  Persons,  the  son,  was  born  Aug.  22,  1782,  in  Wilmington,  Mass.; 
married  in  1804,  Susanna  Wyman,  eldest  daughter  of  Jesse  Wyman  of 
Woburn,  Mass.  She  was  born  Oct.  9,  1785  in  Woburn,  Mass.  He  came 
to  Lyndeborough  from  Reading,  Mass.,  and  settled  on  the  farm  since 
known  as  the  Annie  Fish  place. 

This  family  has  a  most  excellent  record  for  service  in  both  the  Revolu- 
tionary War  and  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  Three  sons  of  Jessie  W.  Per- 
sons served  in  the  Civil  War,  Captain  Alonzo,  Corporal  Oscar  and  Herbert 
as  drumtner  boy.  Susan  B.  Persons  married  Samuel  Richardson,  then 
of  Woburn,  and  four  of  their  sons  served  long  and  honorably  in  the  Civil 
War;  Samuel,  the  second  son,  a  young  man  of  sterling  character,  died 
from  sufferings  in  Andersonville  prison.  William  A.  Persons  gave  his 
life  for  his  country,  and  rests  in  a  lonely  grave  in  Louisiana,  Joseph  Per- 
sons served  in  the  Civil  War,  also  his  son  Edwin,  who  died  in  camp.  H. 
Celenda  Persons  married  Josiah  Watson  and  lost  her  only  son  Geranda  J., 
who  served  in  the  Cavalry  and  died  from  exposure  and  hardships.  This 
family  removed  to  Woburn,  Mass.,  and  at  this  writing,  Alvah  A.  is  the 
only  one  living.  Children,  all  but  eldest  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  MOSES  J.,  b.  in  Reading,  Mass.,  April  n,  1805. 

2.  JESSE   W.,  b.  Nov.  15,  1806. 


HISTORY  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

3.  SUSAN  B.,  b.  June  7,  1808. 

4.  WILLIAM  A.,  b.  Feb.  18,  1810. 

5.  RANDOLPH,  b.  Dec.  22,  1811. 

6.  SUBMIT  R.,  b.  June  21,  1815. 

7.  HEPSEY  C.,  b.  June  28,  1817. 

8.  JOSEPH,  b.  June  21,  1819. 

9.  JAMES,  b.  July  31,  1821. 

10.  L/ois  HOLT,  b.  Sept.  8,  1824. 

11.  ALVAH  A.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1826. 

PBTTBNGILI/. 

FRANK  A.  PETTENGILL,  son  of  Watson  and  Kathleen  (Hemphill) 
Pettengill ;  born  Nov.  3, 1873,  in  Acworth ;  married  March  31, 1897,  Clara, 
daughter  of  William  N.  and  Lois  (Holt)  Ryerson.  She  was  born  Nov.  5, 
1878.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  EDITH  E.,  b.  July  12,  1897. 

2.  LOTTIE  E.,  b.  June  16,  1899. 

3.  CHESTER,  b.  June  18,  1904. 

PIAJMMER. 

DANIEL  PLUMMER  came  from  Goffstown  in  1835  and  settled  on  the 
farm  in  North  Lyndeborough,  now  owned  by  the  Needham  family.  He 
remained  there  until  1854,  when  he  returned  to  Goffstown.  The  child- 
dren  born  at  Lyndeborough  were  :  — 

1.  ABBY  S. 

2.  PERSiS  D. 

3.  JULIA  A. 

4.  MARY  E. 

POWERS. 

EDWARD  POWERS,  born  in  County  Cork,  Ireland,  in  1836  ;  married 
Honora  Shea  of  County  Carey,  Ireland,  Jan.  12,  1861.  She  was  born 
Dec.  23,  1839.  Lived  in  Perham  Corner;  died  April  29,  1891.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  FRANK  H.,  b.  in  Milford,  N.  H.,  Jan.  7,  1862,  d.  March  12, 

1886. 

2.  MARY  E.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  May  19,  1866. 

3.  JULIA  H.  b.  in  L/yndeborough,  Sept.  7,  1867. 

4.  AGNES  H.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  April  3,  1869,  d.  Dec.  20, 

1873- 

5.  ANNIE  M.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Feb.  8,  1871. 

6.  WILLIE  E.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  30,  1873. 

7.  JOHN  M.,  b.  in  Lyndeborough,  April  16,  1875,  d.  April   19, 

1875- 


GENEALOGIES  823 

8.  NiaUE  A.,  b.  Nov.  20,  1876. 

PRATT. 

AMOS  PRATT,  born  at  North  Reading,  Mass.,  July  8,  1811 ;  married 
first,  Almira  Mudge  of  Danvers,  Mass.  She  was  born  Jan.  14, 1817  ;  died 
Feb.  6,  1852  ;  married  second,  Hannah  Mudge.  She  was  born  Nov.  10, 
1809;  died  March  31,  1868.  He  was  a  man  much  respected  in  the  com- 
munity for  his  sterling  honesty  and  upright  dealing.  He  was  moder- 
ator of  the  town  meetings  seven  years,  selectman  two  years,  and  over- 
seer of  the  poor  ten  years.  He  removed  to  Danvers,  Mass.,  in  1856. 
Children  born  in  Lyndeborough,  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  FlDEUA  T.,  b.  July  12,  1840. 

2.  EMILY  J.,  b.  Sept.  i,  1842. 

3.  GEORGE,   b.    May    14,   1845,  m.  March  26,    1873,  I^ucy  J. 

Spiller  of  Ipswich,  Mass. 

PROCTOR. 

Among  the  English  records  in  1375  the  Manor  of  Tottenham  was  held 
by  George  Beauchamp  Proctor  by  bequest  from  his  father,  Sir  William 
Beauchamp  Proctor.  The  coat  of  arms  was  granted  in  1436  and  the 
shield  is  described  as  "  Argent  with  two  chevrons  sable."  The  chevron 
is  used  to  designate  those  families  who  came  to  England  with  William 
the  Conqueror.  The  martlets  without  feet  to  show  that  the  family  had 
no  landed  estate  and  what  they  had  must  be  won  by  the  sword.  It  is 
claimed  that  John,  Richard,  George  and  Robert  settled  in  Massachusetts 
between  1635  and  1643  an(i  tnat  they  were  descendants  of  Sir  William 
above  named,  and  were  brothers.  John,  the  first  of  this  branch  of  the 
family,  settled  in  Ipswich,  coming  in  the  ship  "  Susan  and  Ellen  "  in 
1635,  at  forty  years  of  age,  with  his  wife  Martha  and  two  children,  John 
three  years  old,  and  Mary,  one  year.  This  son  John  was  afterward 
known  as  "  witchcraft  John,"  being  one  of  the  victims  of  the  witchcraft 
delusion  and  suffered  the  death  penalty  by  hanging,  Aug.  19,  1692.  He 
was  married  twice,  his  last  wife  being  a  Thorndyke.  He  had  fifteen 
children,  and  lived  at  what  is  now  known  as  Proctor's  Crossing  on  the 
Boston  &  Maine  R.  R.,  in  Danvers,  Mass.  His  daughter  was  first  ac- 
cused, her  mother  came  to  her  defence,  then  she  was  charged  with  the 
crime,  then  the  husband  and  father  with  the  characteristic  brusqueness 
of  the  race  came  to  the  defence,  with  the  result  that  he  was  the  only 
one  of  the  family  punished  by  death.  His  wife  was  condemned  to  die 
but  for  statutory  reasons  was  not  executed  with  her  husband.  When 
the  time  came  that  the  law  could  be  enforced,  the  delusion  had  passed, 
but  by  English  law  she  was  considered  as  dead,  and  consequently  was 
not  entitled  to  any  benefit  of  her  husband's  estate  until  pardoned  by  the 
king  four  years  later. 

JOHN  PROCTOR  of  the  sixth  generation  from  England  was  born  in 
Danvers,  Mass.,  Oct.  7,  1763,  and  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in 
Lyndeborough  on  the  north  side  of  the  tnountaih.  His  father,  Benja- 


824  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

min,  having  given  to  two  other  sons  the  bulk  of  his  property,  John 
moved  to  Lyndeborough  in  the  spring  of  1792.  John  Carleton  of  Am- 
herst,  a  grandson,  said,  "to  the  roughest  part  of  Lyndeborough"  and 
adds  in  parenthesis,  "  no  wonder  we  are  a  rough  set." 

He  married  Ruth  Southwick,  a  Quakeress,  a  descendant  of  Lawrence 
Southwick,  and  Cassandra  whom  Whittier  has  made  the  subject  of  a 
poem,  and  who  was  whipped  and  imprisoned  and  finally  banished  in 
1659,  dying  in  1660  from  starvation,  privation  and  exposure.  Crime, 
Quakerism. 

Their  first  home  was  well  up  on  the  mountain-side,  on  land  now  owned 
by  D.  E.  Proctor.  The  second  home  which  he  built  in  1805  and  occu- 
pied in  September  of  that  year,  and  where  he  died  30  years  later  is  now 
the  home  of  Merrill  T.  Spalding.  He  is  described  as  a  large  man,  very 
forceful.  He  died  at  the  age  of  72,  May  i,  1836.  His  wife  died  Dec.  20, 
1831.  Children:  — 

1.  JOHN,  b.    in   Danvers,    Mass.,  March   18,   1788,  m.   Betsey 

Putnam  of  Danvers,  Mass.     He  d.   1823.     Three  children, 
John,  Elizabeth  and  Martha  A. 

2.  MARY,  b.  in  Danvers,  April  2    1791,  m.  Abel  Hill,  Jan.  22, 

1814.     (See  Hill  gen.) 

3.  SUSAN,  b.  Aug.  20,  1793,  d.  in  childhood. 

4.  ELIZABETH,  b.   March  8,   1796,  m.  Dudley  Carleton.     (See 

Carleton  gen.) 

5.  JOSEPH  S.,  b.   Sept.   12,  1799,  m.   L/ois  Perry,  by  whom  he 

had  six  children.     He  d.  Sept.  28,  1885,  in  Peabody,  Mass. 

6.  DANIEL,  -f- 

7.  SYLVESTER,  + 

8.  HANNAH,  b.  Feb.  7,   1808,  m.  Emerson  Bachelder,  Novem- 

ber, 1837,  d.  January,  1886. 

DANIEL  PROCTOR,  son  of  John  and  Ruth  (Southwick)  Proctor, 
born  March  6,  1802 ;  married  Feb.  18,  1827,  Mary  Perry  of  Dublin.  She 
died  in  Weare,  Feb.  9,  1871.  He  died  in  Temple,  Feb.  17,  1869.  She  was 
born  April  30,  1794.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  -|- 

2.  MARY,  b.  Aug.  7,  1830,  m.  Sept.  27,  1853,  Hiram  Favor  of 

Weare.      Res.    at    Nashua.      Children :    Sidney,    Nellie, 
Proctor. 

3.  LYDIA,  b.  June  12,   1833,  m.   Sept.  27,  1857,  David  Grant. 

Rem.  to  Goffstown.     Child  :  Harry. 

4.  SUSAN,  b.  Sept.  9,  1838,  m.  Jan.  4,  1898,  Franklin  Jaquith 

of   Billerica,  Mass. 
Of  these  children,  only  Susan  was  born  at  Lyndeborough. 

JOHN  PROCTOR,  son  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Perry)  Proctor,  born  Jan. 
4,  1828;  married  Oct.  16,  1856,  Martha,  daughter  of  Levi  and  Nancy 


GENEALOGIES  825 

(Wilkins)  Fish  of  Middleton,  Mass.  She  was  born  June  3,  1838.  He 
lived  at  Danvers,  Mass.,  many  years,  and  enlisted  from  there  in  the  8th 
Mass.  Regt.,  serving  10  months  during  the  Civil  War.  He  returned  to 
the  homestead  farm  at  Lyndeborough  in  1884,  and  has  lived  there  since. 
He  is  a  fine  mechanic  and  carpenter.  Children :  — 

1.  CAROLYN,  b.  at  Danvers,  Mass.,  April  12,  1857,  m.  Atkins 

H.  Bates  of  Salem,  Mass.  Res.  at  Salem.  Children  : 
William  Proctor,  b.  July  14,  1881  ;  Charles  Howard,  b. 
Nov.  28,  1885. 

2.  JOHN  P.,  b.  at  Salem,  Dec.  26,  1872. 

3.  JAMES  A.,  b.  at  Salem,  Feb.  2,  1882. 

SYLVESTER  PROCTOR,  son  of  John  and  Ruth  (Southwick)  Proctor, 
born  Sept.  5,  1805;  married  Sarah  Hovey  of  Peterborough.  She  was 
born  April  12,  1814;  died  Nov.  20,  1879.  He  died  Oct.  22,  1867.  He 
bought  the  Whitmarsh  farm,  containing  i7  acres,  of  Micajah  Pope  of 
Boston,  Feb.  20,  1829,  the  Allen  lot  from  the  D.  N.  Boardman  heirs,  June 
5,  1850,  which  with  the  40  acres  he  received  from  his  father's  estate, 
constituted  the  farm  on  which  he  lived,  now  owned  by  his  son,  D.  E- 
Proctor.  He  was  superintendent  of  the  poor  farm  in  1845  and  1847  and 
again  in  1857.  He  served  in  the  same  capacity  in  Milford  in  1848-1854, 
the  only  years  he  was  not  a  resident  of  I/yndeborough.  He  was  a  man 
who  had  the  respect  and  esteem  of  the  community.  Children  :  — 

1.  DAVID  EDWIN,  -f- 

2.  ABBY  SARAH,  b.  June  16,  1848,  d.  Sept.  14,  1854. 

3.  ALMEDA  A.,  b.  Aug.  5,  1851,  d.  Sept.  9,  1854. 

4.  JOSIE  ABBY,   b.  June  5,   1856,   m.  John  Merrill  of  Wilton, 

May  7,  1883. 

DAVID  EDWIN  PROCTOR,  son  of  Sylvester  and  Sarah  (Hovey) 
Proctor ;  born  March  5,  1843  ;  married  Jan.  10,  1867,  Sarah  M.  daughter 
of  Dea.  John  C.  Goodrich  of  Ivyndeborough.  He  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools  of  Lyndeborough  and  at  Appleton  Academy  of  Mont  Ver. 
non.  On  Aug.  14,  1862,  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years,  he  enlisted  as  a  pri- 
vate in  Co.  B.,  I3th  N.  H.  Infantry.  (For  his  military  career  see  Chap. 
X.)  He  joined  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  June  28,  1868,  and  has 
held  many  positions  of  trust  in  the  order,  being  department  commander 
in  1900.  He  joined  the  Masonic  Order  in  1883,  and  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  in  1900. 
He  served  as  town  clerk  in  1867-1868,  and  as  selectman  in  1869-1870.  He 
was  also  census  enumerator  in  1870. 

In  1871,  he  removed  to  Wilton  and  entered  the  employ  of  D.  Gregg  & 
Co.  In  1872,  he  was  made  a  partner  in  the  firm,  and  in  1880  become  sole 
proprietor.  He  has  been  an  honored  and  influential  citizen  in  his 
adopted  town,  serving  as  town  treasurer  three  years,  member  of  the 
school  board  six  years,  representative  to  the  legislature  in  1881-1882,  and 
state  senator,  1899-1900.  In  religion  he  is  a  liberal  Congregationalist, 
with  the  faith  that  "God  careth  for  the  least  of  these." 

Ever  since  his  removal  to  Wilton  he  has  kept  in  touch  with  the  people 


826  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

of  his  native  town,  and  has  manifested  a  warm  interest  in  her  material 
prosperity.  He  has  given  liberally  of  his  means  to  support  the  social  en- 
terprises of  the  town,  and  has  always  been  a  familiar  figure  at  its  gather- 
ings and  celebrations.  Children  :  — 

1.  FRANK  EDWIN,  b.  in  I^yndeborough  Jan.  9,  1868,  m.  May 

18,  1892,  Ada  R.  Keyes  of  Wilton.     Children  :  Robert  W., 
Alice  M.,  Lester  G. 

2.  MARY  EMMA,  b.  Aug.  7,   1872,  m.  Sept.  3,  1895,  Fred  B. 

Howe  of  Bolton,  Mass.     Children:    Marion  I,.,  Edna  L., 
Marjore  P. 

3.  ARTHUR  GOODRICH,  b.  July  13,  1877,  d.  April  7,  1878. 

4.  GEORGE  SYLVESTER,  b.  Sept.  18,  1878,  m.  Sept.  2,  1903, 

Winifred  J.  French  of  Bedford.    Child  :  Elizabeth  F. 

5.  -FRED  WILLIS,  b.  July  12,  1883. 

PUTNAM.* 

The  immigrant  ancestor  of  probably  three  quarters  of  the  Putnams  of 
America  was  John  Putnam,  born  in  England  about  1580.  He  married  in 

England  Priscilla  .  His  ancestry  can  be  traced  back  through  the 

Putnams  and  Puttenhams  of  County  Bucks  in  England  for  many  genera- 
tions. John  Putnam's  grandfather  could  claim  relationship  to  the  great 
John  Hampden  and  other  illustrious  families  in  England.  John  came  to 
these  shores  in  1634,  and  settled  in  Salem,  Mass.  The  earliest  record  of 
him  is  in  1641,  when  he  was  granted  land  by  the  town  in  what  is  now  Dan- 
vers, —  to  be  a  little  more  exact,  that  portion  of  Danvers  known  as  Beaver 
Brook.  Oak  Knoll,  the  poet  Whittier's  home,  was  part  of  this  grant, 
and  the  old  well  is  still  to  be  seen  situated  near  the  road  and  some  few  rods 
to  the  southeast  of  its  present  mansion.  John  Putnam  and  his  sons  soon 
had  large  possessions  of  real  estate  in  that  vicinity,  and  much  of  the  land 
is  even  now  in  the  possession  of  his  descendants.  The  children  of  John 
Putnam  were  all  born  and  baptized  at  Aston  Abbotts  in  Bucks  county, 
England.  They  were :  Elizabeth,  baptized  Dec.  20,  1612  ;  Thomas,  bap- 
tized March  7,  1614  (it  was  a  granddaughter  of  this  Thomas,  Ann  by 
name,  who  made  herself  notorious  in  1692,  as  one  of  the  bewitched  girls 
during  witchcraft  times);  John,  baptized  July  24,  1617;  Nathaniel,  bap- 
tized Oct.  ii,  1619;  Sara,  baptized  March  7,  1622;  Phebe,  baptized  July 
28,  1624 ;  John,  baptized  May  27,  1627,  known  as  Capt.  John.  Probably 
the  most  energetic  and  more  truly  of  the  stern  Puritanical  stock  than 
either  of  his  brothers. 

Jacob,  Ephraim  and  Nathaniel  Putnam,  who  came  to  Salem-Canada 
were  the  children  of  Dea.  Nathaniel  Putnam,  who  lived  at  Danvers, 
Mass.  It  is  said  he  also  lived  at  North  Reading  for  a  time.  If  so,  it  was 
there  his  sons  probably  became  acquainted  with  the  Cram  family,  who 
were  residents  in  that  part  of  Reading  set  off  to  Wilmington. 

DEA.  NATHANIEL  PUTNAM  was  of  the  fourth  generation  from 
John,  the  immigrant  ancestor,  viz.,  John,  Nathaniel,  Benjamin,  Nathaniel. 
Children:  - 

*For  a  biographical  sketch  of  the  Putnam*  of  Lyndeborough,  see  chapter  XXXIII. 


GENEALOGIES  827 

1.  NATHANIEL,  bap.  Oct.  i,  1710,  d.  young. 

2.  JACOB,  b.  March  9,  1711. 

3.  NATHANIEL,  b.  April  4,  1714,  d.  young. 

4.  SARAH,  b.  June  i,  1716. 

5.  DBA.  ARCHELAS,  b.  May  29,  1718. 

6.  DEA.  BPHRAIM,  -j- 

7.  HANNAH,  b,  March  4,  1721. 

8.  NATHANIEL,  b.  May  28,  1724. 

9.  MEHITABLE,  b.  Feb.  26,  1726. 

DEA.  EPHRAIM  PUTNAM,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Hannah  (Roberts) 
Putnam,  born  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  Feb.  10,  1719 ;  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  John  and  Sarah  (Holt)  Cram  of  L,yndeborough.  She  was  born  June 
27,  1719 ;  died  Oct.  15,  1777.  He  died  Nov.  13,  1777.  Children,  all  born 
in  L,yndeborough  but  Ephraim. 

1.  HANNAH,  b.  Feb.  26,  1742,  first  white  child,  b.  in  L,yndebor- 

ough,  m.  Eleazer  Woodward.    (See  Woodward  gen.)  - 

2.  EPHRAIM,  -f- 

3.  SARAH,  b.  June  8/1746,  m.  John  Bradford. 

4.  HULDAH,  b.  May  15,   1748,  m.  Nov.  26,  1768,  Capt.  Jonas 

Kidder.     (See  Kidder  gen.) 

5.  JESSE,  b.  Sept.  21,  1750,  d.  in  infancy. 

6.  DAVID,  -f- 

7.  KETURAH,  b.  June  29,  1756,  m.  John  Smith. 

8.  AARON,  + 

9.  REBECCA,  b.  March  17,  1761,  m.  Capt.  Ward  Woodward  of 

Brooklyn,  Conn.     (See  Woodward  gen.) 

10.  JOHN,  m.  Olive  Barren,  Nov.  30,  1784.     Child  :  Olive,  b. 
May  22,  1785. 

DEA.  EPHRAIM  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Cram)  Put- 
nam ;  born  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  June  15, 1744 ;  married  I/ucy  Spaulding.  He 
died  March  2,  1799.  No  further  record  of  L,ucy  Spaulding  has  been  ob- 
tained. Children,  all  born  in  I/yndeborough  :  — 

1.  EPHRAIM,  -(- 

2.  DANIEL,  + 

3.  SARAH,  b.  Jan.  16,  1773,  m.  David  Cram.     (See  Cram  gen.) 

4.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Feb.  4,  1775. 

5.  ESTHER,  b.  April  9,  1777. 

6.  JOHN,  b.  July  15,  1781. 

EPHRAIM  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ephraim  and  L,ucy  (Spaulding)  Putnam  ; 
born  Oct.  20,  1768 ;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth 
Carkin  of  Lyndeborough.  Children  :  — 

i.  EPHRAIM,  b.  Dec.  21,  1798,  d.  Nov.  13,  1800. 


828  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

2.  ELEAZER,  + 

3.  SOLOMON,  b.  March  4,  1803,  d.  Nov.  24,  1814. 

4.  PRUDENCE,  b.  April  22,  1809,  d.  May  10,  1810. 

5.  HIRAM,  b.  April  28,  1811,  d.  Nov.  27,  1814. 

ELEAZER  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Elizabeth  (Carkin)  Put- 
nam, born  Jan.  8,  1801 ;  married  JApril  8,  1828,  Mary  A.  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Mary  (Archer-Burton)  Marshall.  She  was  born  May  22,  1805 ; 
•lied  July  3,  1867.  He  died  Dec.  27,  1866.  Children,  born  in  Lyndebor- 
ough  :  — 

1.  ALBERT  M.,  b.  April  25,  1829,  m.  Jane  C.  Steele. 

2.  AD  ALINE  E.,  b.  March  4,  1833,  m.  William  P.  Steele.    (See 

Steele  gen.) 

3.  ERASTUS  D.,  b.  March  17,  1836,  d.  March  27,  1836. 

4.  ELBRIDGE  G.,  b.  June  9,  1840,  d.  Jan.  13,  1847. 

DANIEL  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Lucy  <.Spaulding)  Putnam  ; 
born  Sept.  2,  1770;  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Adam  and  Abigail 
(Carleton)  Johnson.  Children :  — 

1.  ISRAEL,  -f- 

2.  I/VDIA,  b.  Aug.  9,  1796,  m.  William  Richardson  of  I/ynde- 

borough.     (See  Richardson  gen.) 

3.  BETSEY,  b.  Jan.  24,  1800,  m.  David  Gage.     (See  Gage  gen.) 

4.  HANNAH,  b.  Dec.  29,   1803,  m.  Robert  Duren,  d.  Feb.  25, 

1830. 

5.  DAVID  JOHNSON,  b.  Oct.  9,  1808,  d.  March  9,  1847. 

CAPT.  ISRAEL  PUTNAM,  son  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  (Johnson) 
Putnam,  born  Oct.  30,  1794;  married  first,  Ruth,  daughter  of  Joshua  and 
Abigail  (Ladd)  Sargent  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Sept.  6,  1795  ; 
died  July  21,  1845 ;  married  second,  May  6,  1846,  Mrs.  Abigail  (Abbott) 
Marshall,  widow  of  James  Marshall,  and  daughter  of  William  and 
Eunice  (Cram)  Abbott.  She  was  born  Jan.  25,  1814;  died  Oct.  9,  1892. 
He  died  Feb,  2,  1869.  Children  :  — 

1.  MARY  ANGELINE,    b.    Oct.    i,    1818,    m.   Aug.    22,    1838, 

George  Hartshorn  of  L,yudeborough.  (See  Hartshorn 
gen.) 

2.  WILLIAM  R.,  b.  Oct.  17,  1821,  m.  Dec.  7,  1851,  Martha  J., 

adopted  dau.  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Raymond)  Hartshorn 
of  L/yndeborough.  She  was  b.  Aug.  26,  1833.  He  d. 
Dec.  2,  1901,  in  Woburn,  Mass. 

3.  DANIEL,  b.  Jan.  8,  1824,  m.  Sarah,  dau.  of  EH  B.  Smith  of 

New  Hampton.  She  was  b.  March  24,  1828.  He  pre- 
pared for  college  at  New  Hampton,  graduated  from  Dart- 
mouth in  1851.  Is  a  teacher  at  the  State  Normal  School  at 


GENEALOGIES  829 

Ypsilanti,  Mich.  Their  children:  Alice,  Mary,  Arthur, 
Ruth  and  William. 

4.  ISRAEL,  b.  Jan.    14,    1826,  m.  Luthera  Andrews  of   Clare- 

mont. 

5.  HANNAH,  b.  Aug.  4,  1830,   m.  Dec.  2,  1852,  A.   Kneeland 

Lewis  of  Wilton.  Their  children  are  Orlina,  Sargent  B., 
and  Annie  S. 

6.  SUMNER,  Aug.  4,  1833,  m.  Abby,  dau.  of  Willard  Pearsons 

of  Woburn,  Mass. 
By  second  wife :  — 

7.  ABBY,  b.  June  22,  1847,  d.  Oct.  21,  1858. 

8.  LETITIA,  b.  Jan.  13,   1850,  m.  Dec.  25,   1871,    David   Mc- 

Ginley  of  Houlton,  Me.  He  was  b.  June  14,  1849.  Their 
child  :  Abbie  Winnifred,  b.  Nov.  14,  1872,  m.  March  29, 
1892,  Samuel  Webster  of  Wilton. 

DAVID  PUTNAM,  known  as  "Ensign  David"  and  son  of  Ephraim 
and  Sarah  (Cram)  Putnam,  b.  May  6,  1753 ;  married  Mrs.  Abigail  (Carle- 
ton)  Johnson,  widow  of  John  Johnson,  who  was  killed  or  died  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  AMY,  b.  March  6,  1779,  m.  Gideon  Cram.     (See  Cram  gen.) 

2.  TIMOTHY,  -j- 

3.  ABIGAIL,  b.  June  i,  1785. 

4.  DAVID,  + 

5.  SARAH,  b.  Aug.  19,  1793,  m.  Jonathan  Clark.     (See  Clark 

gen.) 

COL.  TIMOTHY  PUTNAM,  son  of  "Ensign"  David  and  Abigail 
(Carleton  Johnson)  Putnam,  born  May  20,  1782;  married  first,  Rachel, 
daughter  of  Jacob  and  Rachel  (Dale)  Dascomb  of  Wilton,  in  1807.  She 
was  born  Nov.  15,  1785 ;  died  April  14,  1838 ;  married  second,  Patty 
Cheever  of  Lowell,  Mass.  He  died  June  n,  1847.  Children,  all  born  in 
Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  LEONARD,  b.  Dec.  13,  1807.     Rem.  to  the  South. 

2.  OSGOOD  CARLETON,  b.  Sept   30,  1810,  d.  Oct.  n,  1813. 

3.  MARIA,  b.  May  27,  1812,  d.  October,  1847. 

4.  SARAH,  b.  Nov.  23,  1815. 

5.  TIMOTHY  THURSTON,  -(- 

6.  RACHEL,  b.  February,  1820,  d.  April,  1846. 

7.  DAVID,  + 

8.  ELIZABETH,  b.  December,  1823,  m.  November,  1849,  Hiram 

Wallace  of  Antrim.     She  d.  Jan.  26,  1883. 

9.  SOLOMON,  b.  June  18,  1826,  d.  August,  1829. 

10.  JACOB  D.,  -f 


830  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

TIMOTHY  T.  PUTNAM,  son  of  Timothy  and  Rachel  (Dascomb)  Put- 
nam, born  Jan.  30,  1818 ;  married  Nov.  21,  1843,  Lydia  Wood  of  Hudson. 
She  was  born  Nov.  n,  1822;  died  Jan.  2,  1880.  He  died  June  2,  1883. 
Children :  — 

1.  ALBERT,  b.  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  June  9,  1846,  d.  Jan.  29,  1847. 

2.  EDWIN  H.,  -f- 

3.  FRED  W.,  b.  March  19,  1861.     Rem.  to  California. 

EDWIN  H.  PUTNAM,  son  of  Timothy  T.  and  Lydia  (Wood)  Putnam, 
born  March  26,  1848 ;  married  Oct.  29,  1868,  Eliza  A.,  daughter  of  Silas 
and  Rebecca  (Pratt)  Keyes.  She  was  born  Sept.  22,  1847.  Children  :  — 

1.  ROY  N.,  b.  July  9,  1870,  m.  Dec.  19,  1894,  Addie  W.,  dau. 

of  Harlan  P.  and  Maria  (Stevens)  Downs  of  Francestown. 
She  was  b.  Nov.  23,  1873.  Child:  Pauline,  b.  March  13, 
1904. 

2.  lyYDiA  W.,  b.  July  10,   1873. 

3.  CHARLES  E.,  b.  Dec.  12,  1875. 

4.  PERCY  W.,  b.  Dec.  u,  1878,  m.  Aug.  27,  1902,  Martha  R., 

dau.  of  Dana  B.  and  Elsie  (Grant)  Sargent. 

5.  JAMES  A.  G.,  b.  Nov.  7,  1881,  m.  Dec.  7,  1904,  K.  Frances, 

dau.  of  Byron  and  Sarah  (Carley)  Putnam. 

6.  MARY  R.,  b.  July  4,  1885. 

DAVID  PUTNAM,  son  of  Timothy  and  Rachel  (Dascomb)  Putnam, 
born  Feb.  23,  1822 ;  married  Sally  Brown,  July  I,  1847.  She  was  born 
May  29,  1821.  He  removed  to  Pennacook  and  died  Nov.  4,  1879.  Chil- 
dren :  Philip  W.,  Mary  E-,  Eman  F.,  David  H. 

JACOB  D.  PUTNAM,  son  of  Timothy  and  Rachel  (Dascomb)  Putnam, 
born  June  16,  1828;  married  June  i,  1853,  Eliza  (Rust)  Clough.  She  died 
in  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  20,  1882.  He  died  Feb.  26,  1888.  His  childhood 
days  were  spent  in  Lyndeborough,  and  as  a  youth  he  attended  the  Pem- 
broke Academy,  boarding  himself  while  pursuing  his  studies  there. 
After  graduating  he  found  employment  in  a  drygoods  store  at  Laconia, 
and  it  was  here  he  met  his  wife.  Shortly  after  their  marriage  he  removed 
to  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he  engaged  in  the  grocery  business.  He  after- 
ward came  to  Lyndeborough  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  glass. 
While  in  Lowell  three  children  were  born  to  them  :  — 

1.  EMMA  DASCOMB,  b.  June  2,  1854. 

2.  FREDERICK,  b.  Aug.  6,  1857. 

3.  GRACE  E.,  b.  Sept.  28,  1871. 

DEA.  DAVID  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ensign  David  and  Abigail  (Carleton- 
Johnson)  Putnam ;  born  June  19,  1790;  married  first,  Tryphena,  daugh- 
ter of  Jonathan  and  Lois  (Kidder)  Butler  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was 
born  April  27,  1787 ;  died  Jan.  31,  1831 ;  married  second,  Sarah  Fletcher, 
who  died  June  21,  1845;  married  third,  Mrs.  Abigail  Foster;  married 
fourth,  Mrs.  Nancy  P.  Jewett  of  Wilton,  who  died  Aug.  4,  1862;  married 


GENEALOGIES  831 

fifth,  Mrs.  Sarah  (Brown)  Bradford,  widow  of  James  C.  Bradford  of  Lynde- 
borough.  She  died  Sept.  15,  1888.  He  died  June  10,  1870.  Children  by 
first  wife,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  SUSANNA  B.,  b.  May  14,  1816,  m.  John  Hartshorn  of  L/ynde- 

borough.     (See  Hartshorn  gen.) 

2.  JASON,  b.  Nov.  18,  1817,  d.  May  18,  1841. 

3.  TRYPHENA,  b.  April  25,   1822,  m.  Dec.  17,  1847,  Benjamin 

F.  Tenney  of  Antrim.     He  was  b.  Feb.  25,  1821,  d.  Jan.  i, 
1867.     She  d.  July  31,  1900.     Children:  Frank,  Amy. 
Child  by  second  wife,  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

4.  DAVID,  -\- 

DBA.  DAVID  PUTNAM,  son  of  Dea.  David  and  Sarah  (Fletcher)  Put- 
nam ;  born  April  15,  1838;  married  Mariett  D.,  daughter  of  Sumner  and 
Polly  (Dodge)  Wait  of  Londonderry  Vt.,  March  7,  1861.  She  was  born 
Nov.  5,  1841.  Children  :  — 

1.  ALGERNON  W.,    + 

2.  ERWIN  D.,  -f- 

ALGERNON  W.  PUTNAM,  born  Feb.  26,  1866 ;  graduate  of  Brown 
University,  class  of  1895  ;  married  Sept.  9,  1903,  Lucy,  daughter  of  John 
and  Sarah  (Harris)  Daniels  of  Middlebury  Vt.  Child  :  — 

i.  PAUL  S.,  b.  June  19,  1904. 

ERWIN  D.  PUTNAM,  born  Oct.  19,  1879;  married  Jan.  i,  1902,  Alice 
I/.,  daughter  of  James  L.  and  Mary  E.  (Blanchard)  Hill  of  Peterborough. 
Children :  — 

1.  WENDELL  DAVID,  b,  Sept.  23,  1902. 

2.  JESTER  JAMKS,  b.  May  15,  1905. 

AARON  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Cram)  Putnam ;  mar- 
ried Sarah .  Children  :  — 

1.  WARD,  b.  Dec.  4,  1781. 

2.  NANCY,  b.  June  28,  1783. 

PUTNAM. 

*EPHRAIM  PUTNAM,  known  as  "  Danvers  Ephraim,"  was  born  in 
Danvers,  Mass.,  Sept.  14,  1744;  died  in  Lyndeborough  May  n,  1821; 
married  1768,  Rachel,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Chamberlain) 
Cram  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  April  16,  1746 ;  died  April  29, 
1833.  Children  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

i.  JONATHAN,  -f- 

*There  is  a  divided  opinion  and  confusion  of  testimony  as  to  which  of  the  many 
Ephraim  Putnams  was  known  as  "  Danvers  "  Ephraim.  From  a  careful  sifting  of  evi- 
dence we  believe  it  is  the  one  designated  above.  If  any  of  the  descendants  of  the 
Ephraim  Putnams  of  Lyndeborough  are  of  a  contrary  opinion,  the  evidence  may  be  pro- 
duced. 


832  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

2.  MEHITABLE,  b.   Dec.   6/1772,   m.    Feb.    20,    1801,    Robert 

Richie.     He  d.  Nov.  17,  1832.     Child  :  Mary,  b.  Sept.  7, 
1805. 

3.  ARCHILAS,  b.  March  6,  1775,  d.  March  4,  1839. 

4.  EPHRAIM,  b.  Jan.  7,  1778,  d.  Feb.  20,  1785. 

5.  ABIJAH,  b.  Nov.  30,  1780,  d.  Feb.  16.  1785. 

6.  EPHRAIM,  -(- 

7.  NATHANIEL,  b.  Aug.  22,  1788,  d.  March  19,  1843. 

8.  AMOS,  b.  July  25,  1791,  d.  1795. 

JONATHAN  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Rachel  (Cram)  Putnam, 

born  Sept.  14,  1769  ;  married  Nov.  25,  1792,  Mary,  daughter  of Hil- 

dreth.     Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  RACHEL,  b.  Nov.  23,  1792,  d.  Nov.  17,  1795. 

2.  JONATHAN,  Jr.,  b.  April  15,  1795. 

3.  NATHAN,  -j- 

4.  EPHRAIM  HILDRETH,  -f~ 

NATHAN  PUTNAM,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Hildreth)  Putnam  ; 
born  Dec.  12,  1798;  married  Nancy  Trull  Nov.  29,  1821.  She  died  April 
6,  1834.  Children  :  — 

1.  NANCY,  b.  Feb.  28,  1823,  d.  April  30,  1825. 

2.  MARY  A.,  b.  April  17,  1826. 

3.  NATHAN  H.,  b.  June  13,  1828. 

4.  ALMIRA  J.,  b.  June  20,  1830. 

5.  PARKER  T.,  b.  April  6,  1834. 

EPHRAIM  H.  PUTNAM,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Hildreth)  Put- 
nam ;  born  July  5,  1805  ;  married  Susanna  Ford.  She  died  March  3,  1879. 
He  died  June  14,  1864.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough:  — 

1.  ANDREW  J.,  b.  Feb.  27,  1832. 

2.  RACHEL  S.,  b.  Jan.  27,  1835. 

3.  MARY  E.,  m.    Francis  A,  Allen  of   Peterborough.     She  d. 

Sept.  22,  1886. 
4  and  5.  THOMAS  and  BYRON,  twins,  b.  Jan.  8,  1840.     Thomas 

res.  in  Virginia. 
BYRON, + 

6.  L/EVI  H.,  + 

7.  DELIA  A. 

BYRON  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ephraim  H.  and  Susanna  (Ford)  Putnam ; 
born  Jan.  8,  1840  ;  married  first,  July  24,  1859,  Sarah  C.,  daughter  of  Asa 
and  Sarah  (Pillsbury)  Carley  of  Peterborough.  She  was  born  May  20, 
1841;  died  Oct.  21,  1893;  married  second,  Mrs.  Emily  C.  Cragin,  widow 
of  Harry  Cragin  of  Fayette,  Me.,  and  daughter  of  Oliver  B.  and  Fanny 
(Woodworth)  Marston,  of  Fayette,  Me.,  Feb.  20,  1895.  She  was  born 


GENEALOGIES  833 

July  20,  1843.  He  was  town  treasurer  one  year  and  overseer  of  poor  a 
number  of  years.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War  and  a  prisoner  at  Sauls- 
bury,  N.  C.,  two  hundred  and  eleven  days.  (See  Chap.  X.)  He  died 
March  24,  1903.  Children  by  first  wife,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  MYRTIE  M.,  b.  June  i,  1865,  d.  March  20,  1881. 

2.  K.  FRANCES  (adopted),  b.  in  Troy,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  27,  1880. 

LEVI  H.  PUTNAM,  son  of  Bphraim  H.  and  Susanna  (Ford)  Putnam ; 
born  Nov.  19,  1841 ;  married  first,  April  3,  1868,  Lucy  A.,  daughter  of 
Richard  and  Mary  A.  (Grey)  Emery,  born  in  Manchester  July  12,  1850 ; 
died  in  Lyndeborough  Jan.  12,  1877 ;  married  second,  March  15,  1878, 
Lydia  L.,  widow  of  Azel  H.  Church,  and  daughter  of  Silas  and  Phebe  F. 
(Hovey)  Swinnington,  born  in  Lyndeborough  May  12,  1852  ;  died  in  Mil- 
ford  July  26,  1899.  Resides  in  Milford.  Children,  all  but  youngest  born 
in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  NELLIE  J.,  b.  May  22,  1870. 

2.  ROSE  A.,  b.  Jan.  13,  1873. 

3.  ANNA  B.,  Dec.  31,  1874. 

4.  IvEROY  C.,  b.  Feb.  n,  1880. 

5.  ALBERT  B.,  b.  Aug.  3,  1891. 

EPHRAIM  PUTNAM,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Rachel  (Cram)  Putnam, 
born  April  30,  1785  ;  married  Feb.  8,  1814,  Esther,  daughter  of  Ebenezer 
and  Esther  (Holt)  Pearson.  She  was  born  in  Wilton,  Nov.  n,  1792 ; 
died  March  2,  1856.  He  died  June  u,  1862.  Children  born  in  Lynde- 
borough :  — 

1.  EPHRAIM,  b.  Nov.  17,  1815,  d.  Aug.  4,  1834. 

2.  ESTHER,  b.  June  8,  1818,  m.  Joel  H.  Tarbell.     (See  Tar- 

bell  gen.) 

3.  WILLARD  P.,  b.  Sept.  4,  1820,  d.  June  5,  1856. 

4.  MARY  A.,    b.    April    17,    1823,    m.    Nov.    22,    1850,  John 

Fletcher  of  Greenfield.  She  d.  May  23,  1853.  Child: 
Vilana  A.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1852,  m.  James  F.  Clark.  Res.  in 
Medford,  Mass. 

5.  EBENEZER,  b.  June  26,  1826,  d.  Oct.  9,  1826. 

RAND. 

NEHEMIAH  RAND,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Millicent  (Estabrook) 
Rand;  born  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in  1734.  He  was  evidently  a  resident 
of  Charlestown  until  1775,  for  he  had  two  houses  and  a  hatter's  shop  go 
up  in  smoke  when  the  British  burned  the  town,  leaving  him  homeless. 
It  is  said  he  had  some  property  in  Lyndeborough,  where  his  brother  John 
had  previously  been  preaching, —  some  land  partially  cleared, —  and  the 
Francestown  History  says,  "some  sheep  under  the  care"  of  the  before 
mentioned  John.  But  as  the  Rev.  John  Rand  was  dismissed  in  1762,  and 
soon  thereafter  left  the  town,  there  is  some  doubt  as  to  the  sheep.  At 
any  rate  Nehemiah  came  to  Lyndeborough  soon  after  his  property  was 


834  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

burned  in  Charlestown  and  built  a  house  on  land  near  what  is  now  the 
middle  of  the  town,  ever  since  known  as  the  "  Rand  place."*  The  house 
was  situated  at  the  end  of  the  lane  east  of  W.  H.  Clark's  house.  It  is 
said  that  he  built  there  supposing  the  road  through  the  centre  of  the 
town  would  follow  the  brook  from  what  is  now  known  as  Hardy's  mill, 
up  around  Badger  Pond.  But  those  early  settlers  ignored  the  fact  that 
the  "  bail  of  the  kettle  is  no  longer  when  lying  down  than  when  standing 
up,"  and  built  the  road  over  the  hill,  leaving  the  Rand  land  quite  a  dis- 
tance off  the  main  road. 

He  was  a  man  of  influence  and  ability,  and  soon  made  his  mark  in  the 
town.  He  was  moderator  in  1787  and  1789,  and  represented  the  town  in 
the  General  Court  in  1787,  1788,  1789  and  1793.  He  married  first,  Nov.  24, 
1757,  Mary,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (Carter)  Rand  ;  married  sec- 
ond, Mrs.  Mary  Prentice  Frost  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Prentice  of  Charlestown,  Mass.  She  was  born  in  1738 ;  died  Oct. 

20,  1787  ;  married  third,  Margaret  Prentice,  sister  of  his  second^wife,  Oct. 

21,  1791.     He  died  at  Lyndeborough  July  15,  1794.     By  his  first  marriage 
he  had  two  daughters.     Children  by  second  wife  :  — 

1.  IRENE,  m.  Nehemiah  Frost,  rem.  to  Temple,  where  she  died. 

2.  NEHEMIAH,  -f- 

3.  MARGARET,  m.  Dea.  John  Clark.     (See  Clark  gen.) 

NEHEMIAH  RAND,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Mary  (Prentice-Frost) 
Rand  ;  born  Jan.  14,  1777 ;  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Lydia  (Stylman)  Batten  of  Lyndeborough  May  i,  1811.  She  was  born 
April  8,  1780 ;  died  May  4,  1870.  He  removed  to  Francestown  in  1803, 
where  he  died  July  13,  1850.  Children,  Nehemiah  born  in  Lyndeborough, 
the  others  in  Francestown  :  — 

1.  NEHEMIAH,  b.  Feb.  18,  1802,  d.  March  i,  1869,  m.  Harriet 

O.,  dau.  of  Ebenezer  and  Thamazan  (Griffin)  Hutchinson 
of  L,yndeborough  April  28,  1830.  She  was  born  Sept.  17, 
1806,  d.  Oct.  4,  1 88 1.  He  was  a  physician  and  res.  at  Han- 
cock and  at  Nelson.  He  d.  in  the  latter  place. 

2.  RICHARD  BATTEN,  b.   April  n,   1804,  d.  Feb.  n,  1881,  m. 

first,  Mary  J.  Baldwin  Jan.  10,  1830 ;  m.  second,  Ellen 
Bryant,  April  10,  1837.  He  was  a  clothier,  and  d.  at 
Wayne,  Me. 

3.  JOHN,  + 

4  and  5.     Twins,  unnamed,  b.  April  24,   1811,  d.  April  24  and 
25,  1811. 

*While  Mr.  Rand  was  building  his  new  house,  he  started  into  the  woods  east  of  the 
building  to  look  over  and  explore  his  extensive  estate.  He  soon  got  lost,  and  com- 
menced to  shout,  in  hopes  to  attract  the  attention  of  some  one.  His  carpenters  heard 
him  and  started  to  find  him.  By  shouting  back  and  forth  they  finally  came  up  with 
him,  and  started  to  pilot  him  home.  But  he  insisted  they  were  taking  him  the  wrong 
•way,  and  vigorously  protested,  but  they  got  him  back  to  his  own  door  yard,  when, 
looking  around  somewhat  bewildered,  he  exclaimed,  "  What  fool  is  building  a  house 
here?" 


GENEALOGIES  835 

6.  THOMAS  PRENTICE,  -f- 

JOHN  RAND,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  Sarah  (Batten)  Rand,  born  in 
Francestown,  April  22,  1807;  married  Fanny  D.,  daughter  of  Eliphalet 
and  Demarius  (Duncklee)  Simonds,  Oct.  30,  1832.  She  was  born  in 
Milford,  May  21,  1809 ;  died  June  i,  1870.  He  removed  to  Milford  in 
1852,  and  died  there,  March  10,  1884.  Children  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  JOHN  MILTON,  b.  Dec.   i,   1834;  m.  July,  1857,  Orline  A., 

dau.  of  Wesley  and  Rachel  (Caldwell)  Wilson  of  Benning- 
ton.     He  is  a  physician  and  resides  in  Newark,  N.  J. 

2.  STILLMAN  N.,  b.  July  2,  1837,  m.  Jan.  26,  1882,  Belle  M., 

dau.  of  William  and  Jane  (Phillips)  Cameron  of  Philadel- 
phia.    Is  a  photographer  and  resides  in  New  Haven,  Conn. 

DBA.  THOMAS  PRENTICE  RAND,  born  in  Francestown  Sept.  21, 
1814 ;  married  first,  Lydia,  daughter  of  Josiah  and  Dolly  (Shattuck) 
Wheeler  of  L,yndeborough.  She  was  born  June  8,  1818 ;  died  Feb.  14, 
1864 ;  married  second,  Sarah  Deborah,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Sarah 
(Jones)  Clark  of  Ivyndeborough  June  7,  1866.  She  died  Nov.  14,  1904. 

Dea.  Rand  was  never  a  resident  of  Lyndeborough,  but  as  both  of  his 
wives  were  natives  of  the  town,  and  as  some  of  his  children  are  now  resi- 
dents his  family  record  should  appear  here.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen 
of  Francestown,  a  man  of  strong  religious  convictions,  and  maintained 
the  faith  of  his  Puritan  ancestors.  He  was  deacon  of  the  Congregational 
church  for  twenty-seven  years,  and  had  held  public  office  in  his  town. 
He  died  June  i,  1880.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  SARAH  C.,  b.  Nov.  30,  1843. 

2.  FRANCES  D.,  b.  Nov.  10,  1846,  d.  March  14,  1873. 

3.  LYDIA  H.,  b.  Dec.  31,  1.850. 

4.  NEHEMIAH  W.,  b.  Sept.  14,  1853.     Was  a  successful  physi- 

cian and  d.  at  Monson,  Mass. 

5.  ABBY  K.,  b.  July  31,   1855,  m.  W.  H.  Clark.     (See  Clark 

gen.) 

6.  JOHN  P.,  b.  Nov.  8,  1857,  m.  Harriet  Anderson  of  Monson, 

Mass.     Is  a  physician  and  res.  at  Worcester,  Mass. 

*  REV.  JOHN  RAND  was  born  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  Jan.  24,  1727. 
He  was  the  son  of  Jonathan  and  Millicent  (Estabrook)  Rand.  He  was 
graduated  from  Harvard  in  1748  and  afterward  married  Sarah,  daughter 
of  Capt.  John  Goffe  of  Derryfield,  now  Manchester.  He  came  to 
Salem-Canada  in  1755  or  1756  and  was  the  settled  minister  for  a  little 
more  than  four  years.  Just  when  he  removed  from  the  town  or  where 
he  went  first  is  not  material  to  this  record,  but  he  lived  afterward  in 
Goffstown  and  Bedford  and  represented  the  latter  town  in  the  convention 
that  formed  the  constitution  of  New  Hampshire.  He  died  Oct.  12,  1805. 
Children  :  — 

i.  &  2.  JOHN  and  JONATHAN  (twins),  b.  June  24,  1762. 

*From  Rev.  F.  G.  Clark's  Historical  Address. 


836  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

3.  Mn,ivE,  b.  Feb.  5,  1764. 

4.  ROBERT,  b.  May  13,  1767. 

5.  SARAH,  b.  Jan.  20,  1774. 

6.  NEHEMIAH  (twin),  b.  May  22,  1776,  + 

7.  THOMAS  (twin),  b.  May  22,  1776. 

NEHEMIAH  RAND,  son  of  Rev.  John  and  Sarah  (Goffe)  Rand,  born 
May  22,  1776;  married Putnam.  Children:  — 

1.  EDGAR,  + 

2.  NEHEMIAH,  m.  Betsey  George  of   New   Boston.     Rem.    to 

Newport,  N.  H. 

3.  MEHITABI,E,  m.  Perkins  Patterson. 

4.  MARY,  m. Iceman.     Rem.  to  Illinois. 

5.  6  &  7.  SARAH,  THOMAS  and  JEFFERSON,  d.  in  infancy. 

8.  BETSEY,  m.  Benjamin  Button.     (See  Button  gen.) 

9.  L,YDiA,  m. Woodbridge.     Rem.  to  the  west. 

EDGAR  RAND,  son  of  Nehemiah  and  (Putnam)  Rand,  born 

July  26,  1799;  married  first,  Oct.  23,  1823,  Mehitable  Cram,  daughter  of 
John  and  Huldah  (Woodward)  Cram  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born 
Nov.  2,  1801  ;  died  May  5,  [1832  ;  married  second,  Mianda,  daughter  of 
Reuben  and  Nancy  (Clark)  Dutton,  March  14,  1833.  She  was  born  Dec. 
2,  1806 ;  died  Dec.  15,  1870.  He  died  Jan.  16,  1866.  He  bought  land  and 
built  him  a  house  in  the  northeast  part  of  the  town  and  lived  there 
until  his  death.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  M.  MARIA,  b.   Aug.   i,    1824,   m.   May  i,   1849,  Moses  N. 

Emerson. 

2.  SARAH  A.,  b.  Bee.  17,  1825,  d.  Aug.  12,   1836. 

3.  &  4.  JOHN,  (twins,  one  d.  in  infancy),  -(- 

5.  EDGAR  J.,  b.  Aug.  23,  1829,  d.  May  5,  1833. 

6.  &  7.  NEHEMIAH,   (twins,  one  d.  in  infancy),  b.   April  25, 

1832,  d.  May  20,  1842. 
By  second  wife  :  — 

8.  NANCY  E.,   b.   Jan.    6,    1834,    m.    Martin   Whitney.     (See 

Whitney  gen.) 

9.  MIANDA,  b.  Jan.  29,  1836,  d.  Feb.  19,  1846. 

JOHN  RAND,  son  of  Edgar  and  Mehitable  (Cram)  Rand,  born  July 
31,  1827;  married  Dec.  4,  1856,  Mrs.  Lucinda  Stone,  widow  of  Sabron 
Stone  and  daughter  of  Enoch  Colby  of  New  Boston.  She  was  born 
April  18,  1816  ;  died  Sept.  29,  1899.  He  died  May  21,  1902. 

RAYMONB. 

WILUAM  B.  RAYMOND  came  to  I/yndeborough  from  Amherst  in 
1840.  He  was  a  shoemaker  by  trade,  and  cobbled  the  boots  and  shoes  for 
a  generation  of  Lyndeborough  people.  He  was  born  Aug.  20,  1818  ;  mar- 


GENEALOGIES  837 

ried  Ann  Boutwell  of  Amherst  March  8,  1837.*     She  was  born  Aug.  13, 
1818.     Children,  all  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  GEORGE  B.,  -f- 

2.  JOHN  P.,  + 

3.  ELIZABETH  A.,  b.  March  29,  1849,  d.  Oct.  6,  1856. 

4.  ABBY  I,.  F.,  b.  March  3,  1852,  d.  Aug.  30,  1875,  m.  Robert 

W.  Bell  of  Wilton,  Sept.  17,  1870. 

GEORGE  B.  RAYMOND,  born  July  25,  1845  ;  died  Dec.  5,  1876;  mar- 
ried  Addie  Gould  of  Lyndeborough  July  4,  1865.  Was  a  soldier  in  the 
Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X.)  Children  :  - 

1.  ROSE,  b.  Nov.  12,  1869. 

2.  GRACE,  b.  Aug.,  1871. 

JOHN  P.  RAYMOND,  born  Nov.  28,  1846;  died  Dec.  19, 1873  ;  married 
Mary  Shea  of  Wilton  Jan.  12,  1861.  Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See 
Chap.  X.)  Children  :  — 

1.  ANNIE  MAY,  b.  May  i,  1861. 

2.  BERTHA,  b.  Nov.  3,  1862. 

3.  JOHN  W.,  b.  Sept.  2,  1871. 

REYNOLDS. 

FRANK  E.  REYNOLDS,  son  of  John  Q.  and  Mary  (Brown)  Reynolds, 
born  May  15,  1857,  in  Ashburnham,  Mass.;  married  first,  May  9,  1882, 
Flora  E.  Hilt.  She  was  born  in  Presque  Isle,  Me.;  died  April  n,  1894 ; 
married  second,  May  8,  1895,  Lizzie  C.  Blood,  born  March  15,  1868.  Lives 
on  what  is  known  as  the  Annie  Fish  place.  Children  :  — 

1.  EVA  M.,  b.  in  I,yndeborough,  June  10,  1883. 

2.  ADDIE  E-,  b.  in  Benton,  N.  H.,  Sept.  15,  1884. 

3.  WALTER  E.,  b.  in  Benton,  N.  H.,  March  17,  1886. 

4.  GRACE,  b.  in  East  Warren,  N.  H.,  April  6,  1888. 

5.  ETHEL,  b.  in  L/yndeborough,  Oct.  13,  1889. 

6.  GUY,  b.  in  I/yndeborough,  Feb.  21,  1891. 

7.  GEORGE  B.,  b.  in  L-yndeborough,  July  17, 

RICHARDS. 

FRED  B.  RICHARDS,  adopted  son  of  Pascal  and  Helen  (Pascal) 
Richards,  born  June  27,  1852;  married  first,  July  i,  1879,  Emogen  F., 
daughter  of  Joshua  and  Sarah  (Gilchrist)  Lakin  of  Hancock.  She  was 
born  January,  1851  ;  died  Feb.  15,  1881 ;  married  second,  Oct.  31,  1882, 
Elizabeth  M.,  daughter  of  John  and  Susanna  (Putnam)  Hartshorn  of 
Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  July  27,  1863.  He  came  to  Lyndebor- 
ough  from  Hancock  in  1876  and  entered  the  employ  of  Mr.  Tarbell  in  the 

*Mr.  Raymond  has  lived  in  town  sixty-five  years,  and  during  that  time  has  attended 
every  town  meeting  and  voted.  He  and  his  wife  have  lived  together  as  man  and  wife 
sixty-eight  years.  A  very  remarkable  record,  as  very  few  come  so  near  the  diamond 
anniversary. 


838  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

manufacture  and  sale  of  extracts,  etc.,  and  afterward  became  the  proprie- 
tor of  the  business.  He  has  been  a  school  teacher  and  has  always  been 
interested  in  and  identified  with  the  educational  matters  of  the  town, 
and  has  served  several  terms  on  the  board  of  education.  He  represented 
the  town  in  the  Legislature  of  1899,  and  is  a  member  of  and  a  liberal 
supporter  of  the  Baptist  church  at  South  Lyndeborough.  He  is  a  whole- 
sale travelling  merchant,  visiting  many  towns  in  the  southern  part  of 
the  state.  Children  :  — 

1.  RALPH,  b.  March  18,  1884. 

2.  MYRTIE  B.,  b.  May  21,  1886. 

3.  lyORiN  F.,  b.  May  9,  1893. 

4.  SARAH  C.,  b.  Jan.  24,  1901. 

RICHARDS. 

DR.  MARSHALL  B.  RICHARDS,  son  of  John  C.  and  Sarah  F. 
(Flanders)  Richards,  b.  at  Boston,  April  27,  1839 ;  married  Sept.  16, 
1894,  Addie  A.,  daughter  of  William  W.  and  Esther  J.  (Cragin)  Burton 
of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  June  3,  1871.  They  reside  on  the 
Russell  place  in  the  southwest  part  of  the  town.  Children  :  — 

1.  WALLACE  B.,  b.  Nov.  21,  1895. 

2.  ESTHER  G.,  b.  July  21,  1897. 

3.  ORMAN  M.,  b.  Dec.  31,  1898. 

4.  JOHN  C.,  b.  Dec.  27,  1899. 

5.  RUTH  G.,  b.  Jan.  n,  1901. 

6.  ADDIE  A.,  b.  April  7,  1902. 

7.  AGNES  B.,  b.  Sept.  4,  1903. 

8.  DOROTHY  A.,  b.  Nov.  29,  1904. 

RICHARDSON. 

The  Richardson  family  in  America  are  descended  from  Ezekiel,  Samuel 
and  Thomas  Richardson,  brothers  who  came  to  this  country  from  Eng- 
land in  the  early  days  of  the  Massachusetts  Colony.  Ezekiel  came  first 
with  Winthrop  in  1630  and  was  soon  after  joined  by  his  two  brothers. 
Ezekiel  was  made  a  freeman  in  1631  and  settled  in  Charlestown.  His 
descendants  and  those  of  his  brothers,  Samuel  and  Thomas,  soon  became 
active  in  the  settlement  of  the  new  towns  of  Woburn  and  what  are  now 
Maiden  and  Billerica.  George  K.  Wood  in  the  History  of  Francestown 
says  that  Samuel  paid  the  highest  tax  in  Woburn  in  1645.  He  says  the 
name  can  be  traced  back  to  the  Norman  Conquest.  Thomas  was  the 
youngest  of  the  brothers  and  from  him  the  Richardsons  of  Lyndebor- 
ough  are  descended  as  follows :  Thomas,  Thomas,  Nathaniel,  Hezekiah, 
Jacob,  and  Jacob  was  the  first  of  the  name  to  come  to  Lyndeborough. 

Hezekiah  was  born  in  Billerica,  May  8,  1715,  and  married  Sept.  30, 
1740,  Elizabeth  Walker  of  Billerica.  They  settled  in  Townsend,  Mass., 
where  he  died  June  17,  1795. 

LIEUT.  JACOB  RICHARDSON,  second  son  of  Hezekiah  and  Eliza- 
beth (Walker)  Richardson,  born  at  Townsend,  Mass.,  Dec.  13,  1742; 


GENEALOGIES  839 

married  May  19,  1766,  Sarah  Brown  of  Billerica,  Mass.  She  was  born 
July  28,  1742;  died  March  i,  1825.  He  died  in  Lyndeborough,  Sept.  5, 
1817.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Billerica  in  1805  and  bought  the 
farm  at  the  centre  owned  by  Daniel  Gould,  since  known  as  the  Richard- 
son farm.  His  descendants  have  owned  the  land  ever  since.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  was  a  lieutenant  in  a  company 
that  went  from  Billerica  in  1777  and  assisted  in  the  defeat  and  capture  of 
Burgoyne.  He  was  a  blacksmith,  as  were  three  of  his  sons.  His  shop 
used  to  stand  nearly  opposite  the  Congregational  parsonage.  One  of 
his  sons,  Timothy,  came  to  Lyndeborough  with  him.  Another,  Jacob, 
Jr.,  came  to  Greenfield  and  settled. 

Lieut.  Jacob  Richardson  and  Sarah  (Brown)  Richardson  had  eleven 
children,  all  born  at  Billerica,  Mass. 

1.  SARAH,  b.  Jan.  15,  1767,  d.  at  Billerica. 

2.  JACOB,  b.  Aug.   10,  1769. 

3.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Oct.  n,  1771,  d.  Feb.  29,  1776. 

4.  &  5.  JOSIAH  and  TIMOTHY  (twins),  -f- 

Josiah  b.  Oct.  i,  1773,  m.  Mary  Wyman. 

6.  JOHN,  b.  June  15,  1776,  m.  I^ydia  Johnson. 

7.  WILLIAM,  b.  Aug.  20,  1778,  m.  Phebe  Bachelder. 

8.  ELIZABETH,  b.  NOV.  22,   1780. 

9.  ELIJAH,  b.  July  5,  1783,  d.  young. 

10.  JULIA,  b.  Aug.  25,  1785,  d.  June  22,  1802. 

11.  ANNA,  b.  Aug.  19,  1788,  m.  Joseph  Jones. 

TIMOTHY  RICHARDSON,  son  of  Jacob  and  Sarah  (Brown)  Richard- 
son, was  born  in  Billerica,  Oct.  i,  1773;  married  Judith  N.  Reynolds, 
daughter  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Pickett)  Reynolds  of  Greenfield.  She 
was  born  Nov.  10,  1780.  She  died  Sept.  3,  1833.  He  died  Dec.  2,  1855. 
Children :  — 

1.  HARRIET,  b.  Oct.  5,  1806,  d.  Aug.  19,  1807. 

2.  HOOPER,  b.  Jan.  31,  1808,  d.  Aug.  6,  1839. 

3.  JOHN,  + 

4.  IRA,  b.  March  22,   1811,  m.   1839,  Harriet,  dau.  of  Patrick 

and  Mary  (Kilpatrick)  Cassidy  of  Pennsylvania.     He  d. 
August,  1871,  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

5.  TIMOTHY,  b.  Oct.  14,  1813. 

6.  NATHAN,  + 

JOHN  RICHARDSON,  son  of  Timothy  and  Judith  (Reynolds)  Rich- 
ardson, was  born  in  Lyndeborough,  July  26,  1809;  married  Sarah  Ann, 
daughter  of  Nathan  and  Ann  (Remick)  Barnes  of  Bedford,  N.  H.  She 
died  Dec.  18,  1860.  He  died  April  7,  1876.  He  was  a  very  successful 
farmer,  and  a  man  of  marked  influence  in  the  town.  He  was  very 
methodical  in  his  habits  and  could  never  tolerate  work  half  done.  His 
farm  implements  were  of  the  best  of  the  kind  in  use  at  the  time.  His 
farm  was  well  cultivated  and  he  gradually  replaced  the  old  buildings 


840  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

with  a  commodious  barn  and  modern  dwelling  house  and  ell.  He  loved 
to  sing  and  was  the  leader  of  the  Congregational  church  choir  for  years. 
He  always  performed  his  duties  as  a  citizen  at  the  town  meatings  and 
was  one  of  the  foremost  in  promoting  the  welfare  of  any  movement  that 
promised  to  be  for  the  good  of  the  community.  For  a  long  series  of 
years  he  was  the  moderator  of  the  town  meetings  and  presided  with 
justice  and  impartiality.  He  was  one  of  the  board  of  selectmen  and  was 
a  member  of  the  school  committee  in  1851.  He  represented  the  town  in 
the  state  legislature.  When  a  young  man  he  resided  for  a  short  time  in 
Lowell,  Mass.  With  that  exception  he  spent  his  whole  life  in  Lynde- 
borough.  His  wife  was  a  sister  of  Isaac  O.  Barnes  of  Boston,  the  noted 
wit  and  lawyer,  and  was  a  woman  of  refinement.  Another  sister  married 
Rodney  C.  Boutwell  of  Lyndeborough.  Children,  all  born  in  Lynde- 
borough  :  — 

1.  HARRIET,    b.    March   25,    1835,   m.    George   D.    Blaney  of 

Swampscott,  Mass.,  d.  in  L/yndeborough,  May  5,  1871. 

2.  HENRY,  b.  Aug.  31,  1836,  m.  July  9,  1859,  L/avina,  dau.  of 

James  D.  and  Hannah  (Davis)  Harding  of  Swampscott, 
Mass.  He  bought  a  large  farm  in  Francestown,  known  as 
the  Eaton  place,  in  1860,  and  with  his  brother  George, 
who  was  a  partner  in  the  enterprise,  removed  to  Frances- 
town.  Henry  soon  became  influential  in  the  town  of  his 
adoption  and  his  conservatism  and  good  judgment  kept 
him  almost  continually  in  town  office  until  near  his  death. 
He  represented  his  town  in  the  state  legislature.  Chil- 
dren :  Fred,  b.  April  9,  1860,  was  drowned  in  Pleasant 
Pond,  Aug.  15,  1880;  Elmer  F.,  Edith  M.,  James  H., 
Emma  F.,  Ira  A. 

3.  GEORGE  H.,    b.   June    n,    1838,  m.    Hannah   M.,  dau.   of 

James  D.  and  Hannah  Davis  Harding  of  Swampscott, 
Mass.,  April  9,  1863.  She  was  b.  Oct.  23,  1842.  He  re- 
moved to  Francestown  in  1860.  Children :  Louise,  Mary 
A.,  George,  Frank  E. 

4.  SOLON  B.,  -j- 

5.  FRED  A.,  -+- 

6.  MARY  F.,  b.  June  5,  1851,  d.  July  19,  1875. 

7.  JOHN  C.,  b.  Dec.  27,  1852. 

SOLON  B.  RICHARDSON,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Barnes)  Richard- 
son, born  April  16,  1840  ;  married  Eliza  P.,  daughter  of  Dea.  William  and 
Eliza  (Anderson)  Jones  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Aug.  30,  1839. 
He  died  June  14,  1879.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  WILLIAM,  -+- 

2.  ANNIE,  m.  Willis  C.  Perham,  d.  in  California  Nov.  16,  1896. 

(See  Perham  gen.) 


NATHAN   RICHARDSON. 


GENEALOGIES  841 

3.  CLINTINA,  d.  May  6,  1886. 

WILLIAM  E.  RICHARDSON,  son  of  Solon  B.  and  Eliza  (Jones) 
Richardson;  born  Sept.  23,  1859;  married  Dec.  14,  1882,  Minnie  J. 
daughter  of  William  R.  and  Ursula  (Richards)  Duncklee.  She  was  born' 
at  New  Boston,  Feb.  16,  1866.  Children,  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  CORA  M.,  b.  Jan.  28,  1884,  d.  Nov.  26,  1892. 

2.  NELLIE  B.,  b.  July  15,  1885,  m.  Oct.  16,  1902,  Fred  Carson 

of  Mont  Vernon.     He  is  the  son  of  Frank  and  Edith  (Car- 
son) Carson. 

3.  OLIVE  U.,  b.  July  20,  1887. 

4.  MAUD  G.,  b.  Feb.  25,  1889. 

5.  ELLA  M.,  b.  Aug.  12,  1890. 

6.  PEARL  V.,  b.  June  28,  1892. 

7.  CHESTER  E.,  b.  May  n,  1894. 

8.  OSCAR  A.,  b.  Aug.  10,  1896. 

9.  RUTH  M.,  b.  Jan.  22,  1899. 

10.  Son,  b.  Nov.  27,  1900,  d.  Nov.  27,  1900. 

FRED  A.  RICHARDSON,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  A.  (Barnes)  Rich- 
ardson; born  Aug.  22,  1843;  married  Jan.  7,  1868,  Hannah  J.,  daughter  of 
Loammi  and  Charlotte  (Bradford)  Baldwin  of  Wilton.  She  was  born 
Sept.  1 6,  1841.  He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Lyndebor- 
ough  and  at  Francestown  Academy.  He  was  born  on  the  old  homestead, 
and  with  some  brief  exceptions  has  always  lived  there.  In  1877  he 
bought  the  farm.  He  has  made  the  production  of  milk  for  the  Boston 
market  the  chief  branch  of  his  farming,  and  has  been  very  successful  in 
that  line.  He  keeps  his  land  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation,  and  seems  to 
have  inherited  his  father's  inclination  to  have  his  farm  work  thoroughly 
well  done.  He  has  held  many  offices  of  trust  in  the  milk  producers'  as- 
sociation and  town  affairs.  He  has  been  selectman  a  number  of  terms, 
and  represented  the  town  in  the  legislature  of  1891.  He  was  in  the  mili- 
tary service  during  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X.) 

1.  GEORGE  A.,  b.  Dec.  30,  1868,  d.  April  2,  1875. 

2.  FRED  PERLEY,  -+• 

FRED  PERLEY  RICHARDSON  born  Dec.  31,  1882;  married  May  25, 
1904,  Bertha  E.,  daughter  of  Ellery  and  Mary  (Griggs)  Nourse.  Child :  — 

i.  BLANCHE  MAY,  b.  Aug.  5,  1905. 

NATHAN  RICHARDSON,  son  of  Timothy  and  Judith  (Reynolds) 
Richardson  ;  born  Sept.  28,  1815  ;  married  May  6,  1846,  Sarah,  daughter 
of  James  and  Sally  (Parker)  Bruce  of  Mont  Vernon.  She  was  born  April 
14,  1820;  died  Aug.  3,  1888.  He  died  June  8,  1899.  He  was  a  man  who 
avoided  all  public  office  and  devoted  his  time  to  the  management  of  his 
business  affairs,  to  the  improvement  of  his  farm.  He  was  a  man  of  great 
industry  and  was  a  very  successful  farmer.  Children  :  — 

i.  EDWARD  B.,  b.  Dec.  3,  1847,  m.  Sept.  28,  1875,  Ida  F.,  dau. 


842  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

of  Calvin  and  Nancy  (Taylor)  I^ord  of  Francestown.  He  d. 
March  12,  1889. 

2.  SARAH  E.,  b.  Oct.  27,   1850,  m.  May  21,  1874,  Stephen  H. 

Dunbar  of  Wilton.  He  was  b.  Feb.  20,  1836,  d.  June  7, 
x899.  Children:  Effie  E.,  Charles  H. 

3.  ELLA  F.,  b.  March  12,  1854,  m.  Jan.  4,  1886,  EH  J.  Curtis 

of  Wilton.  She  d.  June  27,  1891.  Children:  Edward  R., 
Sarah  M. 

4.  HARRY  J.,  b.  April  25,  1862,  m.  Aug.  6,  1897,  Mrs.  Ida  M. 

Minot,  dau.  of  Solon  B.  and  Annie  (Sargent)  Graves  of 
Boston,  b.  May  24,  1860.  She  has  one  son  by  former  m., 
Chester  S.  Minot,  b.  April  3,  1891. 

RICHARDSON. 

WILLIAM  RICHARDSON,  son  of  William  and  Mary  (Pearson)  Rich- 
ardson ;  born  at  Lyndeborough  July  i,  1791 ;  married  May  21,  1814, 
Lydia,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Hannah  (Johnson)  Putnam,  b.  Aug.  9, 
1796;  died  in  Milfordjan.  9,  1865.  In  1848  he  removed  to  Milford.  He 
died  May  20,  1858.  Children,  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  July  28,  1815,  m.  Nov.  3,  1839,  Thomas  Dunning 

of  Nashua.     She  d.  Feb.  25,  1841. 

2.  ELIZA,   b.   Nov.  14,   1816,   m.  Dec.  25,   1839,  Benjamin  F. 

Hutchinson  of  Milford. 

3.  WILLIAM  P.,  b.  Sept.  n,  1818,  m.  April  15,  1845,  Julia  A. 

Godkin  of  Haverhill,  Mass.     He  d.  at  Milford  Jan.  9,  1893. 

4.  CAROLINE,  b.  July  3,  1820,  d.  April,  1824. 

5.  HANNAH,  b.  May  6,  1822,  m.  June  16,  1842,  Nathaniel  Mar- 

shall of  Nashua. 

6.  JOHN,  b.  July  7,  1824,  m.  May  i,   1854,  Jane  Dwinnell.     He 

d.  at  Mechanics  Falls,  Oct.  7,  1893. 

7.  DAVID  GAGE,  b.  March  30,  1826,  m.  Nov.  28,  1854,  Susan 

Bancroft  of  Reading,  Mass. 

8.  JONATHAN  P.,  + 

9.  L/YDIA  A.,   b.    Feb.    25,    1830,    m.    May  4,    1868,    Eugene 

Hutchinson  of  Milford.  d.  in  New  Mexico  Jan.  12,  1885. 

10.  CHARLES  A,  b.  Feb.  15,  1839,  m.  April  16,  1865,  AbbieT., 
dau.  of  Eugene,  Jr.,  and  Phebe  B.  (Raymond)  Hutchinson. 
She  was  born  Nov.  7,  1844.     He  is  a  farmer  and  resides 
near  Richardson  Crossing,  Milford.     He  is  a  frequent  visi- 
tor to  his  native  town,  and  the  musical  ability  and  talent  of 
his  wife  have  contributed  much  to  the  success  of  our  social 
gatherings  and  celebrations.     They  have  five  children,  b. 


GENEALOGIES  843 

at  Milford  :  George  H.,   Ada  M.,    Hattie  E.,   Harry  P., 
Arthur  C. 

JONATHAN  P.  RICHARDSON,  son  of  William  and  Lydia  (Putnam) 
Richardson;  born  April  3,  1828;  married  Rhoda  M.,  daughter  of  Levi 
and  Rhoda  (Pettingill)  Tyler  Dec.  14,  1852.  She  was  born  Nov.  29,  1829. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War,  and  died  in  Danville  Prison  Nov.  17, 
1864.  (See  Chap.  X.)  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  ANNABEL,  b.  May  3,  1854,  d.  Oct.  14,  1854. 

2.  EDWIN,  b.  Nov.  13,  1858,  d.  Aug.  26,  1859. 

RIIvEY. 

CHARLES  D.  RILEY  was  born  Nov.  15,  1868 ;  married  Abbie  J.  Man- 
zer  of  Stoneham,  Mass.,  May  10,  1890.  Came  to  Lyndeborough  from 
Stoneham,  Mass.  Children  :  — 

1.  FLORENCE  A.,  b.  June  23,  1891. 

2.  GRACE  I,.,  b.  Sept.  5,  1893. 

3.  ETHEL  A.,  b.  Feb.  23,  1895. 

4.  CHARLES  D.  G.,  b.  Oct.  15,  1898. 

5.  OLIVE  M.,  b.  Oct.  22,  1900. 

ROGERS. 

EDWARD  E.  ROGERS,  son  of  Harrison  E.  and  Francelia  (Shattuck) 
Rogers,  born  Jan.  4,  1870,  at  Queechee,  Vt.;  married  Dec.  25, 1890,  Zephia, 
daughter  of  George  and  Stella  (Geer)  Ruggles,  born  May  20,  1873.  He 
came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Bradford,  N.  H.,  in  1900,  and  bought  the 
Benjamin  B.  Ames  place,  North  Lyndeborough.  Is  employed  as  over- 
seer of  the  napping  room,  Amoskeag  Mills,  Manchester. 

ROSE. 

ABRAHAM  ROSE,  was  born  in  Scituate,  Mass.,  whence  at  an  early 
age  he  removed  to  Sandwich,  Mass.  He  was  born  in  1759,  and  came  to 
Lyndeborough  in  1787.  Although  a  young  man  when  he  came,  his  life 
had  been  an  eventful  one.  At  the  commencement  of  the  Revolutionary 
War,  when  only  seventeen  years  of  age,  he  enlisted  for  three  months,  and 
at  the  close  of  his  term  of  service  re-enlisted  for  the  war,  serving  seven 
and  one-half  years  with  the  Continental  Army.  He  endured  the  suffer- 
ings of  the  winter  at  Valley  Forge  and  witnessed  the  final  triumph  at  the 
surrender  of  Cornwallis  at  Yorktown.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
shipped  before  the  mast  and  was  a  sailor  for  three  years.  Tiring  of  the 
hardships  and  perils  which  were  the  lot  of  the  seamen  of  those  days,  and 
desirous  of  a  more  quiet  life,  he  settled  on  a  farm,  on  what  has  since 
been  named  for  him,  "Rose  mountain."  It  is  said  there  were  buildings 
on  the  land  he  bought,  but  who  the  former  owners  were  is  uncertain.  He 
was  tall  and  straight,  and  even  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-two  years 
maintained  an  erect  military  carriage,  the  result  of  long  years  of  army 
drill.  He  was  positive  in  his  opinions,  blunt  and  direct  in  speech,  and 
when  he  had  anything  to  say  it  was  expressed  in  no  uncertain  terms. 


844  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

Rev.  Mr.  Claggett  says  of  him  in  an  obituary  notice  published  in  the 
"  Farmer's  Cabinet."  "The  character  of  this  remarkable  man  exhibited 
traits  worthy  of  remark.  His  patriotism  was  firm  and  abiding.  The 
'  Spirit  of  '76  '  was  never  eradicated.  With  the  honor  of  his  country  he 
felt  himself  identified,  and  in  her  welfare  he  felt  a  deep  interest.  Like 
other  people  of  great  age,  he  remembered  best  the  history  of  his  early 
life,  especially  the  hardships,  the  perils  and  the  battles  of  the  Revolution, 
and  was  never  tired  of  recounting  them  to  others  with  the  readiness  and 
enthusiasm  of  an  eye  witness.  He  was  obliging  as  a  neighbor,  and  more 
correct  in  his  habits  than  would  have  been  expected  of  one  who  had 
passed  so  much  of  his  early  life  in  the  camp  and  forecastle.  For  several 
years  he  enjoyed  the  benefit  of  a  pension,  and  during  his  days  of  help- 
lessness and  infirmity  received  the  filial  attention  of  his  only  son,  with 
whom  he  lived." 

He  married  Deziah  Fish  of  Sandwich,  Mass.  She  was  born  July,  1758, 
and  died  Nov.  18,  1854.  They  were  married  before  coming  to  L,yndebor- 
ough.  He  died  Dec.  16,  1851.  Seven  children  were  born  to  them  while 
residing  on  the  mountain  farm.  Before  his  death  he  removed  to  the 
farm  formerly  owned  by  Solomon  Cram,  then  owned  by  his  son  Brackley, 
now  owned  by  his  great-grandson,  Willard  Rose.  (For  his  military  rec- 
ord see  Chap.  VII.)  Children  :  — 

1.  ANNA  H.,  b.  Dec.  29,  1788,  d.  Nov.  2,  1807. 

2.  GIDEON,  b.  Nov.  29,  1790,  d.  April  16,  1814. 

3.  CATHERINE,  b.  March  30,   1792,  d.  Jan.  4,   1879,  m.  - 

Forsaith. 

4.  PATTY,  b.  July  21,   1794,  m.  Phineas  Kidder  of  L,yndebor- 

ough.     (See  Kidder  gen.) 

5.  BRACKLEY,  -(- 

6.  ABRAHAM,  JR.,  b.  June  n,  1800. 

7.  DEZIAH,  b.  Nov.  25,  1802. 

BRACKLEY  ROSE,  son  of  Abraham  and  Deziah  (Fish)  Rose;  born 
May  2,  1796;  died  Dec.  29,  1878;  married  first,  Dec.  12,  1821,  Sarah  But- 
terfield  of  Lyndeborough ;  married  second,  Sally  Chamberlain  of  West- 
ford,  Mass.,  Feb.  15,  1835.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  BRACKLEY,  JR.,  -f- 

2.  SARAH  A.,  b.  May  25,  1824,  d.  May  13,  1850. 

3.  HANNAH  J.,  b.  May  31,  1827,  m.  first,  June  15,  1869,  Rufus 

Hardy  of  Greenfield,  N.  H.  He  was  born  June  12,  1820,  d. 
Dec.  21,  1869.;  m.  second,  Charles  H.  Holt  of  L,ydebor- 
ough.  (See  Holt  gen.) 

4.  DEZIAH,  b.  May  28,  1832,  d.  Sept.  u,  1845. 
By  second  wife  :  — 

5.  GEORGE,  + 

BRACKLEY  ROSE,  son  of  Brackley  and  Sarah  (Butterfield)  Rose, 
born  May  15,  1822  ;  married  first,  Nov.  7,  1850,  Abigail  B.  Rutherford. 


GENEALOGIES  845 

She  was  born  Oct.  22,  1827;  died  April  17,  1879;  married  second,  L,ydia 
Wilson.     Children,  all  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  GEORGE  B..  b.  March,  1853. 

2.  SARAH  J.,  b.  Sept.  3,   1856,  in.  Merrill  T.  Spalding.     (See 

Spalding  gen.) 

3.  EDWARD  L,.,  b.  June,  1858,  m.  Abby  Andrews  of  New  Bos- 

ton. 

4.  ABBIE  A.,  b.  July  7,  1859,  d.  July  30,  1879. 

5.  MINNIE)  F.,  b.  May  14,   1865,  m.  Frank  E.  Cummings  of 

Lyndeborough.     (See  Cummings  gen.) 

GEORGE  ROSE,  son  of  Brackley  and  Sally  (Chamberlain)  Rose, 
born  Aug.  28,  1836  ;  married  first,  Hattie  M.,  daughter  of  Obed  and 
Phebe  (Holt")  Goldthwaite  of  Greenfield,  Oct.  30,  1859;  born  1841;  died 
March  22,  1872;  married  second,  Sarah  A.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Betsey  (Hunt)  Reed  of  Westford,  Mass,  Oct.  13,  1874.  She  was  born  Feb. 
16,  1839.  He  has  served  the  town  on  the  board  of  selectmen  many  terms, 
and  also  on  the  board  of  education.  Thoroughly  conservative  in  all 
things,  of  sound  judgment,  he  was  a  man  whose  services  were  always  of 
value.  He  died  Aug.  18,  1903.  Children,  all  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  JENNIE),  b.  June  18,  1861. 

2.  NELLIE;  F.,  b.  June  18,  1863;  d.  Sept.  4,  1865. 

3.  L,ORA,  b.  Jan.  31,  1866,  m.  Clarence  H.  L,each  of  Rockland, 

Me.,  Oct.  21,  1896.     Res.  in  Winthrop,  Mass. 

4.  ALWYN,  b.  June  4,   1869,  m.    Catherine   lyonegan  of  New 

York.     Child:  Marrienna,  b.  Nov.  i,  1896. 

5.  WILLARD,   + 


ROSE,  son  of  George  and  Hattie  M.  (Goldthwaite)  Rose, 
born  July  8,  1871  ;  married  Maggie  M.,  daughter  of  James  and  Ellen 
(Banks)  Chute,  Nov.  20,  1894.  Children  :  — 

1.  VIOLA  M.,  b.  March  26,  1896. 

2.  EILEEN,  b.  May  9,  1900. 

ROSS. 

SAMUEL  ROSS,  the  father  of  the  Ross  family  in  Lyndeborough,  was 
born  at  Glasco,  Scotland,  June  20,  1820.  He  was  a  glass  blower  by  occu- 
pation. He  came  to  America  and  on  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  Co.  B,  nth  Regt.,  Conn.  Vol.  He  was  wounded 
at  the  Battle  of  Gettysburg,  and  from  its  effects  he  died  at  Westford, 
Conn,  July  u,  1870.  He  married  at  Ellensville,  N.  Y.,  in  1839,  Sarah 
McMullen.  She  was  born  at  Sterbridge,  England,  Aug.  8,  1822.  Soon 
after  the  death  of  her  husband  she  removed  with  her  family  to  Lynde- 
borough,  coming  from  Ellensville,  N.  Y.,  in  1873.  She  died  in  Lynde- 
borough,  May  2,  1901.  Children:  — 
i.  GEORGE,  b.  at  Ellensville,  N.  Y.,  1840,  d.  there  in  1844. 


846  H1STOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

2.  JOHN,  b.  at  Ellensville,  1842.     Was  a  private  in  Co.  A,  loth 

Regt.,  Conn.  Vol.,  and  was  killed  at  Kingston,  N.  C.,  Dec. 
14,  1862. 

3.  MARY  EI^EN,  b.    at   Ellensville,  N.   Y.,  in    1844,  m.    An- 

toine  A.  Farnham  of  Westford,  Conn.  He  d.  at  Lynde- 
borough,  April  13,  1882.  Children:  John  H.,  b.  at  Stod- 
dard,  April  19,  1863,  d.  at  Lyndeborough,  Feb.  25,  1886. 
Nellie  M.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  April  22,  m.  Willie  F. 
Herrick.  (See  Herrick  gen.) 

4.  SARAH  A.,  b.  at  Ellensville,  1846,  m.   Albert  S.   Works  of 

Westford,  Conn.,  d.  at  Merrow  Station,  Conn. 

5.  GEORGE  A.,  -(- 

6.  RICHARD  H.,  b.  at  Stoddard,   June,  1850,  in.   Augusta   M. 

Shedd.     He  d.  Jan.  6,  1900.     Their  children  b.  at  Lynde- 
borough  :  Sarah  A.,  b.  July  4,   1885;  Ernest  E.,  b.   Nov.    4, 
1894. 

7.  MARGARET  J.,  b.  at   Stoddard,  Nov.  30,   1852,  m.    H.    L. 

Lillibridge  of  Westford,  Conn.     Child  :   Wallace  L. 

8.  RUTH  T.,  b.  at  Stoddard,  March  15,  1854,  m.  John  J.  Gang- 

loff  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  He  d.  at  Lyndeborough,  June  23, 
1890.  She  d.  at  Lyndeborough,  Dec.  19,  1888.  Chil- 
dren: Edna  A.,  b.  May  30,  1880,  at  Lyndeborough:  Wil- 
liam J.,  b.  at  Woodbury,  N.  J.,  Dec.  i,  1885. 

9.  SAMUEL,  b.  at  Wellington,  Conn.,  March  30,  1856,  m.  1880, 

Lelia  Cutter.  She  d.  Oct.  4,  1884.  Child  :  Harry  B.,  b. 
February,  1881. 

10.  THOMAS,    b.    at   Wellington,    Conn.,    May,   1858,  m.    Eva 
Cutter  of  Lyndeborough.     She  d.  at  Scranton,  Penn.,  Jan- 
uary,   1892.      Child:    Florence   B.,  b.    at    Lyndeborotigh, 
June,  1884. 

11.  EDWARD,  b.  at  Wellington,  Conn.,  July  4,  1861. 

GEORGE  A.  ROSS,  son  of  Samuel  and  Sarah  (McMullen)  Ross,  born 
March  30,  1849;  married  Dec.  8,  1871,  Araminta,  daughter  of  Webb  and 
Mary  (Sanford)  Wallace;  married  second,  Sept.  i,  1886,  Mrs.  M.  Estella 
Davis,  widow  of  Frank  O.  Davis,  and  daughter  of  James  M.  and  Mary 
(Colley)  Harriman.  Child  by  first  wife  :  — 

i.  LILLIAN  B.,  b.  Sept.  9,  1872,  m.  Oct.  24,  1894,  Charles  M. 
Woolsey  of  Livingston  Manor,  N.  Y. 

RUSSELL. 

JEDEDIAH  RUSSELL  was  born  at  Reading,  Mass.,  in  1751.  He  en- 
listed and  served  during  the  whole  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  enlisting 
at  18  years  of  age  and  discharged  at  25.  Three  years  later,  in  1779,  he 


GENEALOGIES  847 

married  Rhoda  Pratt,  of  what  place  is  to  the  writer  unknown.  Neither 
is  the  exact  time  he  came  to  Lyndeborough  known.  Probably  some  of 
the  older  children  were  born  in  Massachusetts.  He  settled  in  the  ex- 
treme southwest  part  of  the  town,  on  land  which  is  now  the  farm  where 
Dr.  Richards  lives.  He  built  a  log  house  south  of  where  the  present 
house  stands,  and  a  few  years  later  built  the  frame  house.  His  wife 
died  May  29,  1818,  aged  55  years.  He  died  Feb.  17,  1848,  aged  95 
years,  6  months.  They  were  both  members  of  the  Congregational 
Church.  Children  :  — 

1.  JEDEDIAH,  b.  Aug.  29,  1780.     Rem.  to  Michigan. 

2.  RHODA,  b.  Feb.  9,  1782,    m.   Ephraim   Holt  and   rem.   to 

Sullivan,  N.  H.,  d.  May  29,  1818. 

3.  HEPSIBAH,  b.  Oct.  28,  1783,  m.  first,  Heman  L.  Sargent,  a 

son  of  Joshua  and  Abigail  (L,add)  Sargent ;  married  second, 
Chamberlain  and  rem.  to  Ohio. 

4.  EPHRAIM,  b.  July  6,  1785.     Rem.  to  New  York. 

5.  JAMES,  b.  Aug.  8,  1787.     Rem.  to  New  York. 

6.  CHLOE,  b.  Aug.  2,  1789,  d.  Feb.  5,  1808. 

7.  WILLIAM,  b.  Feb.  21,  1792,  d.  Nov.  16,  1814. 

8.  EBENEZER,  + 

9.  SALLY  P.,  b.  June  20,  1796,  m.  Asa,  son  of  Jonathan  and 

Margaret  (Cram)  Chamberlain  of  L/yndeborough,  and  rem. 
to  Hanover,  N.  H. 

10.  SAMUEL,  b.  March  31,  1798,  d.  Oct.  12,  1800. 

11.  SAMUEL,  2ND.,  b.  April  4,  1801.     Rem.  to  New  York. 

12.  ELIAB,  b.  March  9,  1804.     Rem.  to  New  York. 

CAPT.  EBENEZER  RUSSELL,  son  of  Jedediah  and  Rhoda  (Pratt) 
Russell,  born  Feb.  17,  1794;  married  first,  July  7,  1818,  Artimesia  Lynch. 
She  died  June  22,  1860 ;  married  second,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Needham,  Aug. 
27,  1863.  He  died  at  South  Merrimack,  April  25,  1883.  At  the  age  of 
20  years  he  enlisted  for  service  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  was  stationed  at 
Portsmouth.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  Lyndeborough. 
Soon  after  his  second  marriage  he  removed  to  Merrimack.  Children  by 
first  wife :  — 

1.  NANCY,  b.  June  4,  1819,  m.  first,  March  12,  1844,  William 

Upton.     He  d.  April  17,   1849.     She  m.  second,  Asa  W. 
Farmer.     He  d.  May  16,  1886.     She  res.  at  Nashua. 

2.  ADONIRAM,  -|- 

3.  SARAH  A.,   b.  July    19,    1826,    m.    Sept.    2,    1848,    Albert 

Cheney.     Rem.  to  Madison,  Wis.;  d.  April,  1898. 

4.  AMANDA  M.,  b.  Feb.  10,  1829,  m.  first,  June  16,  1863,  John 

H.    Giddings.     He   d.    Aug.    6,    1868.       She   m.    second, 
Henry  S.  L,owe  of  Greenfield.     Res.  at  Nashua. 


848  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

ADONIRAM  RUSSELL,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Artimesia  (Lynch) 
Russell,  born  April  28,  1822  ;  married  March  8,  1849,  Maria  E.  Lakin  of 
Hancock.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Betsey  (Stanley)  Lakin, 
born  July  23,  1828.  He  died  April  29,  1893.  She  died  Dec.  17,  1903.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  selectmen  for  many  years.  Of  a  social, 
kindly  nature  he  was  liked  by  those  with  whom  he  associated.  He  lived 
where  Mr.  Eastman  now  lives  and  built  the  house  there,  a  short  distance 
west  of  Buttrick's  mill.  Children  :  — 

1.  CLARENCE  R.,  b.  June  22,  1850,  d.  March  30,  1870. 

2.  ELLA  T.,  b.  May  7,  1852,  m.  Emery  Holt.     (See  Holt  gen.) 

3.  IDA  Iy.,  b.  Oct.  13,  1854,  d.  Oct.   19,  1868. 

4.  AUGUSTA  A.,  b.  June  4,  1857,  m.  William  F.   Field,  Nov. 

25»  1879.     He  was  b.  Feb.  16,  1852. 

5.  GEORGE  J.,  b.  Sept.  17,   1863,  d.   March  4,  1894,  m.   Alice 

Gilson. 

6.  ANNIE  M.,  b.  April  22,  1868,  d.  April  15,  1870. 

RUSSEIX. 

JOSEPH  RUSSELL  settled  on  the  farm  in  Johnson's  Corner  now 
owned  by  his  grandson,  Aaron  W.  He  was  born  March  14,  1783  ;  married 
Naomi  Wilkins.  She  was  born  March  16,  1783  ;  died  June  2,  1869.  He 
died  March  14,  1827.  Children  :  — 

1.  BURNHAM,  -\- 

2.  JAMES,  b.  Nov.  9,  1806,  m.  Mary  A.  Southerland. 

3.  MARY,  b.  Dec.  9,  1807,  m.  John  Kidder  of  Wilton. 

4.  ORRIN,  b.  Ocf  19,  1810. 

5.  AARON  W.,  b.  Feb.  n,  1815,  m.  Elsie  Presbie. 

6.  CLARA  S.,  b.  Nov.  22,  1822,  d.  Sept.  6,  1824. 

BURNHAM  RUSSELL,  son  of  Joseph  and  Naomi  (Wilkins)  Russell ; 
born  Oct.  21,  1805  ;  married  Jan.  29,  1833,  Eliza,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and 
Betsey  (Boffee)  Kidder.  She  was  born  March  14,  1814;  died  Dec.  27, 
1894.  He  died  June  22,  1874.  Children:  — 

1.  ORPAH,  b.  Dec.  24,  1833,  d.  Aug.  28,  1892. 

2.  ORRIN  P,  -(- 

3.  AARON  W.,  -{- 

ORRIN  P.  RUSSELL,  son  of  Burnham  and  Eliza  (Kidder)  Russell; 
born  June  17,  1837;  married  Sept.  19,  1861,  Marcia  H.  Hesselton  of 
Nashua.  He  removed  to  Wilton  and  died  there  Dec.  12,  1891.  Child  :  — 

i.  EMOGENE  V.,  b.  Oct.  9,  1866,  d.  June  13,  1870. 

AARON  W.  RUSSELL,  son  of  Burnham  and  Eliza  Kidder  Russell  ; 
born  May  5,  1853  ;  married  Oct.  8,  1883,  Lillian  V.,  daughter  of  Robert  K. 
and  Betsey  A.  (Curtis)  Lynch.  She  was  born  Aug.  30,  1863.  Child  :  — 

i.  FRED  W.,  b.  July  9,  1888. 


GENEALOGIES  849 

RYERSON. 

WILLIAM  N.  RYERSON,  son  of  Joseph  Ryerson  of  West  Sumner, 
Me.;  born  June  10,  1832 ;  married  Lois,  daughter  of  Harvey  and  Lois 
(Cram)  Holt,  April  24,  1856.  She  was  born  March  16,  1836.  He  died 
March  24,  1885.  Children  :  — 

1.  NELSON  H.,  b.  Nov.  26,  1859,  d.  March  20,  1879. 

2.  WILLIAM,  b.  Dec.  22,  1866,  d.  Nov.  14,  1889. 

3.  EMMA  L/.,  b.  Aug.  16,  1869,  d.  May  10,  1887. 

4.  CLARA,  b.  Nov.  5,  1878,  m.  Frank  A.  Pettengill  of  Acworth, 

N.  H.     (See  Pettengill  gen.) 

SARGENT. 

JOSHUA  SARGENT  was  born  in  Methuen,  Mass.,  Nov.  25,  1757.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  army,  and  after  the  close  of  the  war 
he  removed  to  Dunstable,  Mass.  Thence  he  came  to  Lyndeborough, 
where  he  built  and  operated  a  "fulling "  mill.  The  mill  stood  at  or  near 
where  the  mill  now  owned  by  James  L.  Colburn  stands,  perhaps  better 
known  as  Buttrick's  mill.  He  married  Abigail  Ladd  of  Haverhill,  Mass. 
She  was  born  June  28,  1760;  died  Dec.  28,  1843.  He  died  Jan.  23,  1844. 
Children :  — 

1.  ABIGAIL,  b.  Feb,  22,  1781,  m.  Jotham  Hildreth,  d.  Aug.  24, 

1850. 

2.  HEMAN  L,ADD,   b.  Sept.  24,  1782,  m.  Hepsibah  Russell,  d. 

March  17,  1806. 

3.  MIRIAM,  b.  May  28,  1784,  d.  Aug.  26,  1800. 

4.  POLLY,  b.  Sept.  27,  1786,  m.  James  Russell,  d.  in  1824. 

5.  JOHN,  b.  Feb.  16,  1789,  m.  first,  Mary  McMaster,  m.  second, 

Mrs.  Sprague,  d.  Jan.  13,  1878. 

6.  JOSHUA,  b.  May  5,  1791,  m.  Patty  Burnham,  d.  March  24, 

1882. 

7.  BOD  WELL,  b.  Sept.  7,  1793,  m.  L/ucy  A.  Briggs,  d.  July  28, 

1866. 

8.  RUTH,  b.  Sept.  6,  1795,  m.  Israel  Putnam,  d.  July  21,  1845. 

(See  Putnam  gen.) 

9.  L,UCINDA,  b.  Sept.  7,  1798,  d.  Aug.  30,  1800. 

10.  MIRIAM,  b.  March  13,  1801,  m.  John  Carleton,  d.  in  1880. 

11.  NATHANIEL,  b.  Aug.  2,  1803,  m.  Mary  Ford. 

12.  SUMNER,  b.  July  7,  1805,  m.  Mary  A.  I^each,  d.  in  1893. 

SARGENT. 

DANA  B.  SARGENT,  son  of  Cyrus  and  Samantha  (Chase)  Sargent ; 
born  at  Hillsborough,  Feb.  3,  1847;  married  July  25,  1870,  Elsie  M., 
daughter  of  David  C.  and  Rebecca  (Fish)  Grant.  She  was  born  Aug.  24, 
1847;  died  Aug.  2,  1902.  He  died  March  n,  1899.  He  came  to  Lynde- 


850  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

borough  in  1880  and  settled  on  the  Levi  H.  Woodward  place,  where  he 
lived  until  his  death.     Children  :  — 

1.  MARTHA  R.,  b.  Aug.  29,  1870,  m.  Aug.  27,  1902,  Percy  W. 

Putnam,  son  of  Edwin  H.  and  Eliza  (Keyes)  Putnam. 

2.  HARRY  D.,  b.  May  7,  1876,  d.  Aug.  n,  1877. 

3.  WILLIS  D.,  b.  Nov.  5,  1880,  d.  May  26,  1899. 

SENTER. 

Benjamin  Senter  was  the  pioneer  of  the  Senter  family  to  settle  in 
L,yndeborough.  He  built  a  house  situated  about  twenty  rods  south  of  the 
road  from  John  H.  Goodrich's  to  the  schoolhouse  in  Dist.  No.  4.  It  was 
here  that  most  of  his  children  were  born,  but  he  afterward  lived  in  a 
house  that  stood  between  the  Bailey  place  and  the  old  Starrett  house, 
North  Lyndeborough.  He  had  a  numerous  family,  but  of  these  we  can 
get  no  record  except  that  of  Asa.  There  are  no  descendants  of  any  of 
the  brothers  of  Asa  now  living  in  town.  Benjamin  Senter  was  buried 
in  the  North  Lyndeborough  cemetery. 

ASA  SENTER,  son  of  Benjamin  Senter;  born  Oct.  6,  1780;  married 
Mary  Christie  of  New  Boston.  She  was  born  June  5,  1786;  died  Feb.  9, 
1859.  He  died  Sept.  26,  1869.  Children  :  — 

1.  MARY,  b.  April  22,  1805,  m.  George  Worcester,  rem.  to  Har- 

vard, Mass.,  and  d.  there. 

2.  RODNEY,  b.  Oct.  23,  1808,  rem.  to  Bedford,  Mass. 

3.  HANNAH,  b.  July  9,  1811. 

4.  HIRAM,  b.  Aug.  6,  1814,  d.  July  4,  1854. 

5.  ACHSAH.  b.  Dec.  7,  1816,  d.  in  infancy. 

6.  FRANKLIN,  -f- 

7.  ACHSAH,  2ND,  b.  Nov.  26,  1820. 

8.  ANN  E-,  b.  April  3,  1825. 

FRANKLIN  SENTER,  son  of  Asa  and  Mary  (Christie)  Senter,  born 
April  21,  1818;  married  first,  April  8,  1845,  Pamilla,  daughter  of  Varion 
and  Mary  (Thompson)  Balch.  She  was  born  Jan.  20,  1822;  died  April 

9.  1854 ;  married  second,  Eliza,  daughter  of  David  and  Betsey  (Gregg) 
Hovey,  July  2,  1854.     She  was  born  Aug.  24,  1817 ;  died  April  15,  1897. 
He  died  Sept.  20,  1896.     He  was  a  quiet  man,  a  neat  farmer,  and  one  who 
had  the  esteem  of  his  neighbors  and  fellow-townsmen.     He  represented 
the  town  in  the  legislature  in  1877-1878.     Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  MARY  A.,  b.   Feb.   27,   1847,  m-  June  5,    1870,  Almon  T. 

Hovey  of  Peterboro.     She  d.  Feb.  18,  1882. 

2.  JULIA  E.,    b.    Oct.    16,    1848,    m.    Oct.    24,   1869,  John  A. 

Hovey  of    Peterboro.     He  d.   Oct.   6,    1881.     Their  chil- 
dren are  George  W.,  Grace  M. 

3.  WILLIAM  F.,  b.  Jan.  31,  1851,  m.  Aug.   12,  1874,  Emma  F. 

Clark  of  Lowell,  Mass.     He  rem.  to  Lowell  in   1870.     Is 


GENEALOGIES  851 

superintendent  of  repairs  at  the  Lawrence  Corporation. 
Has  been  alderman  and  is  a  successful  and  influential  citi- 
zen. Their  children  are  Percy  W.,  Pamilla  A.,  Arthur  H. 

4.  GEORGE  R.,   b.   Dec.   25,  1852,  m.  Jan.    18,   1879,  Mary  C. 

Parker  of  Peterboro.     She  d.  July  i,    1896.     He  rem.  to 
Santa  Barbara,  Cal.,  in  1886  and  res.  there  now. 
By  second  wife  :  — 

5.  CHARLES  H.,  -|- 

CHARL,ES  H.  SENTER,  son  of  Franklin  and  Eliza  (Hovey)  Senter, 
born  Sept.  30,  1856 ;  married  Feb.  19,  1879,  Susie,  daughter  of  Sewall  and 
Agnes  (Green)  Watkins.  She  was  born  Sept.  22,  1855.  He  resides  on 
the  homestead  farm,  North  Lyndeborough.  From  1881  until  1901  he  was 
a  member  of  the  board  of  selectmen  twelve  years,  and  has  filled  other 
positions  of  trust  in  the  town.  He  has  been  prominent  in  the  grange 
circles  of  the  county,  and  is  a  very  useful  citizen.  Children  :  — 

1.  ANNIE  M.,  b.  Jan.  31,   1882,  m.    Feb.    n,    1903,   Fred  A. 

Holt.     (See  Holt  gen.) 

2.  FRANK  H.,  b.  May  31,  1883.     Was  drowned  in  the  river  at 

Paper  Mill  Village,  New  Boston,  June  27,  1896. 
3  and  4.  INFANT  CHILDREN,   unnamed,  b.   Sept.    n,   1886,  d. 
Sept.   ii,  1886. 

SHARP. 

JOSEPH  SHARP,  son  of  John  and  Harriet  (Wilcox)  Sharp,  born  in 
Boston,  June  14,  1834;  married  Nov.  26,  1866,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Solo- 
mon and  Mary  (Sargent)  Cram.  She  was  born  June  12,  1844.  He  came 
to  Lyndeborough  in  1872  from  Boston  and  settled  in  the  south  village, 
where  he  died  May  26,  1903.  Child :  — 

i.  RACHEL  A.,  b.  March  31,  1881. 

SHEPARD. 

ROBERT  T.  S.  SHEPARD,  son  of  Robert  and  Eunice  (Scott)  Shep- 
ard,  born  at  Amherst,  March  2,  1832;  married  first,  May  n,  1853,  Irene 
B.  Powers  of  Pittsfield,  Me.  She  was  born  April  n,  1834;  died  April  9, 
1865  ;  married  second,  Nov.  24,  1869,  Charlotte  S.  Kaime  of  Lowell, 
Mass.  She  was  born  June  9,  1836,  at  Barnstead,  N.  H.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  John  and  Pamelia  E.  (Rand)  Kaime.  He  came  to  Lynde- 
borough  from  Goffstown  and  bought  the  Edwin  N,  Patch  place,  where 
he  has  since  resided.  He  died  in  1905.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  WALTER  S.,  -+• 

2.  JAMES  F.,  b.  July  30,  1859. 

3.  AUGUSTA  M.,  b.  Jan.  21,  1860,  d.  June  26,  1863. 

4.  AUGUSTA  M.,  b.  Jan.  30,  1864. 
By  second  wife :  — 

5.  ALFRED  K.,  b.  Sept.  28,  1870. 


852  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

6.  GERTRUDE  M.,  b.  Oct.   27,   1872,  m.  May  14,   1896,  Ralph 
L,.  Combs  of  Deny.     She  d.  Aug.  17,  1898. 

WALTER  S.  SHEPARD,  son  of  Robert  T.  S.  and  Irene  B.  (Powers) 
Shepard,  born  Jan.  9,  1855  ;  married  Elizabeth  M.,  daughter  of  Harry 
A.  and  Mary  (Harmond)  Baker.  She  was  born  Sept.  i,  1868,  at  Salt 
Lake  City,  Utah.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Camas  Creek,  Fre- 
mont County,  Idaho,  in  1902,  and  bought  the  farm  in  Johnson's  Corner, 
known  as  the  Willis  C.  Perham  place.  He  was  born  at  Lowell,  Mass., 
and  went  west  in  1876  and  entered  into  the  ranching  'and  cattle  raising 
business,  returning  east  in  1902.  Children,  all  born  in  Idaho  :  — 

1.  WALTER  T.,  b.  at  Clear  Creek,  Aug.  4,  1885. 

2.  CHARLOTTE  M.,  b.  at  Dry  Creek,  Jan.  19,  1888. 

3.  FREDERICK  J.,  b.  at  Sand  Creek,  May  29,  1890. 

4.  ETHEL  M.,  b.  at  Sand  Creek,  Aug.  24,  1892. 

5.  ROBERT  Q.,  b.  at  Sand  Creek,  Oct.  30,  1895. 

6.  NELLIE  I.,  b.  at  Camas  Creek,  March  n,  1902,  d.  June  14, 

1903. 

SIMONDS. 

JESSE  SIMONDS  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Burlington,  Mass. 
He  was  born  in  Barnard,  Vt.,  December,  1809.  His  mother  died  when  he 
was  young,  and  he  was  brought  up  by  an  uncle  in  Burlington,  Mass. 
He  was  never  married  and  spent  most  of  his  time  in  the  autumn  and 
winter  months  in  hunting  and  trapping  No  man  in  the  state  knew  more 
of  the  homes  and  habits  of  the  fur-bearing  animals  than  he.  He  lived 
close  to  nature  and  the  ways  of  birds,  more  especially  game  birds  were 
an  open  book  to  him.  Possessing  an  iron  constitution  he  performed 
feats  of  endurance  that  were  the  wonder  of  the  town.  He  lived  where 
Robert  C.  Mason  now  lives  and  built  the  house  occupied  by  him.  He 
died  June  20,  1885.  He  was  the  son  of  Daniel  and  Joanna  (Balch) 
Simonds. 

SMITH. 

JOHN  SMITH  married  Keturah,  daughter  of  Dea.  Ephraim  and 
Sarah  (Cram)  Putnam  of  Lyndeborough.  Children  :  — 

1.  BENJAMIN,  b.  July  3,  1777. 

2.  JOHN,  b.  June  20,  1779. 

3.  SARAH,  b.  Aug.  9,  1781. 

4.  HULDAH,  b.  Oct.  12,  1784. 

5.  KATURAH,  b.  Feb.  3,  1787. 

6.  EPHRAIM,  b.  April  18,  1789. 

7.  PAMELA,  b.  May  21,  1791. 

8.  and  9.  JACOB  and  RACHEL  (twins),  b.  May  5,  1794. 

SMITH. 
JACOB  SMITH  married  Emma  E.,  daughter  of  Joseph  A.  and  Mary 


GENEALOGIES  853 

L.   (Stephenson)  Johnson.     She  was  born  Oct.   14,   1850;  died  Aug.  4, 
1879.     Children :  — 

1.  ADA  G.,  b.  July  4,  1870,  in  Westford,  Conn. 

2.  EDITH  I.,  b.  in  L,yndeborough,  March  16,  1879,  m.  Nov.  2, 

1898,  John  Dolliver.     (See  Dolliver  gen.) 

SOUTHWICK. 

JOHN  SOUTHWICK  was  born  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  Sept.  18,  1788;  died 
in  Danvers,  Mass.,  April  19,  1847 ;  married  May  14,  1815,  Elizabeth  Rus- 
sell of  Ipswich,  Mass.  She  was  born  Dec.  3,  1792  ;  died  Oct.  14,  1877. 
They  came  to  North  Lyndeborough  soon  after  their  marriage,  in  the 
spring  of  1815.  He  bought  a  potter's  shop  and  a  house  nearly  opposite 
the  house  of  John  H.  Goodrich  and  carried  on  the  potter's  business  for 
several  years.  The  shop  and  house  are  both  gone  now.  For  eight  years 
he  drove  a  six-horse  team  from  Francestown  to  Boston  and  carried  all  the 
merchandise  sold  at  the  stores.  He  loaded  with  country  produce  for  the 
down  trip  and  with  groceries,  etc.,  back.  In  1841  he  removed  to  Danvers 
and  died  there.  Children,  all  but  one  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  JOHN  RUSSELL,  b.  July  19,  1816,  m.  Sophia  L,.,  daughter  of 

Asa  and  Alice  (Nutting)  Kemp  of  Francestown  Sept.  2, 
1842.  She  was  born  Aug.  26,  1821.  He  removed  to 
L,owell,  Mass.,  soon  after  his  marriage  and  for  forty  years 
was  an  overseer  of  the  "  dressing"  room  of  the  Tremont 
and  Suffolk  Corporation.  He  was  elected  councilman  in 
1865,  and  alderman  in  1866  and  1867.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Mass,  legislature  in  1876.  In  1879  he  bought  a 
farm  in  Groton,  Mass.,  and  d.  there  Jan.  12,  1888. 

2.  WILLIAM,  b.  July  14,  1818,  d.  Dec.  3,  1818. 

3.  WILLIAM,  b.  Nov.  i,  1819,  d.  Jan.  26,  1875,  m.  Marinda  E. 

Parker  of  Salem,  Mass.,  Jan.  26,  1844.  She  was  b.  May 
18,  1825,  d.  Nov.  12,  1881. 

4.  ELIZABETH  S.,  b.  Dec.  6,  1821,  res.  at  Peabody,  Mass. 

5.  STEPHEN  A.,  b.  March  31,  1824,  m.  L,ydia  E.  Daniels  of 

Salem,  Mass.,  June  15,  1859.  She  was  b.  June  10,  1828, 
res.  at  Peabody,  Mass. 

6.  DAVID  H.,   b.  June  25,    1827,   m.   Harriet  L,ord  of  Salem, 

Mass.,  Sept.  24,  1868.  She  was  b.  Jan.  9,  1838,  res.  at 
Peabody,  Mass. 

7.  EDWIN,  b.  July  30,  1829,  rem.  to  Colo,  in  1849,  d.  Jan.  13, 

1895. 

8  and  9.  Twins,  b.  May  7,  1832,  d.  in  infancy. 

10.  BENJAMIN  F.,  b.  July  5,  1835,  m.  Oct.  20,  1868,  Mary  A. 
Osborne  of  Peabody,  Mass.  She  was  b.  July  17,  1839.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War,  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant. 


854  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

He  was  a  member  of  the  General  Court  of  Mass,  in  1888 
and  councillor  in  1895. 
u.  A  son,  b.  in  Francestown,  March  20,  1838. 

SPAULDING.* 

Edward,  Stephen  and  Capt.  Levi  were  the  first  of  the  Spauldings  to 
come  to  Lyndeborough.  Henry  came  a  little  later.  Edward  and  Stephen 
were  brothers,  sons  of  Ebenezer  and  Anna  Spaulding  of  Nottingham 
West,  now  Hudson,  and  they  were  probably  born  there.  Edward  was  the 
father  of  Capt.  Levi  of  Revolutionary  fame.  Stephen  married  Martha 
Foster,  and  Edward  married  Elizabeth.  He  bought  lots  113  and  122 
north  of  the  mountain.  The  former  lot  is  just  east  of  where  Robert  C. 
Mason  lives,  and  the  old  cellar  hole  may  still  be  seen.  Aaron  Woodward 
lived  there  later. 

Stephen  bought  seventy  acres  of  lot  112  May  30,  1765,  east  of  his 
brothers',  the  same  year  that  his  brother  bought.  It  is  said  that  Reuben, 
another  brother  of  Edward,  came  from  Hudson  and  settled  on  part  of 
Edward's  lot.  It  will  be  seen  that  they  all  settled  on  the  north  side  of  the 
mountain,  and  that  the  farm  of  the  late  Levi  Spalding  was  the  west  part 
of  their  large  holding  of  land.  June  15,  1771,  Rachel,  a  daughter  of 
Stephen  and  Martha,  his  wife,  was  baptized,  and  it  is  probable  that  they 
all  came  to  Lyndeborough  about  the  year  1768,  perhaps  a  year  or  two 
earlier.  July,  1772,  they  are  recorded  as  members  of  the  church.  Ed- 
ward and  Elizabeth  had  five  children,  none  of  them  born  in  Lyndebor 
ough.  Capt.  Levi  was  their  only  son.  Stephen  and  Martha  had  ten- 
children,  none  of  them  born  in  Lyndeborough,  but  it  would  appear  that 
none  of  these  children  settled  in  the  town.  Edward,  Stephen  and  Reu- 
ben were  of  the  fourth  generation  from  Edward,  the  immigrant  ancestor. 
Nathaniel,  the  son  of  Stephen  and  Martha  Spaulding,  was  baptized  Sept. 
8,  1768. 

CAPT.  LEVI  SPAULDING  was  of  the  fifth  generation  from  Edward, 
who  came  to  this  country  in  the  earliest  years  of  the  Massachusetts 
Colony,  probably  between  1630  and  1633.  The  first  records  of  Edward 
make  it  appear  that  he  settled  in  Braintree,  Mass. 

Capt.  Levi  was  born  in  Nottingham  West,  now  Hudson,  N.  H.,  Oct.  23, 
I737-  Just  when  he  came  to  Lyndeborough  is  not  known.  He  was  se- 
lectman in  1768  and  again  in  1774.  He  was  moderator  in  1781,  1782,  1784, 
1786  and  1791.  He  was  chosen  representative  to  the  General  Court  in 
1784,  and  was  the  second  to  fill  that  office  in  town.  (For  his  military 
history  see  Chap.  VII.)  He  married  first,  Anna  Burns;  married  second, 
Lois  Goodrich,  Dec.  30,  1778.  She  was  born  Dec.  17,  1744.  In  1800  he 
removed  to  Plainfield,  Otsego  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  March  i,  1825. 
Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  BETSEY,  b.  Nov.  18,  1759,  m. Holt. 

2.  OuvE,  b.  April  8,  1762,  m.  L/ovell  Lewis,  rem.  to  N.  Y. 

3.  EDWARD,  -f- 

*Some  members  of  this  family  spell  the  name  Spalding. 


GENEALOGIES  855 

4.  GEORGE,   b.   Sept.    14,    1766,  was  drowned  when  a  young 

man. 

5.  MARTHA,  b.  April  6,   1768,  m.  Joseph  Knights  of  New  Ip- 

swich, N.  H.,  rem.  to  Ohio. 

6.  ESTHER,  b.  July  7,  1770, 

7.  LEVI,  + 

8.  JOHN,  b.  Sept.  i,  1774. 
Children  by  second  wife  :  — 

9.  BENJAMIN  G.,  b.  Sept.  9,  1779. 

10.  SEWALL,  b.  March  i,  1782. 

n.  Lois  G.,  b.   Feb.    16,    1784,   m.  Stephen  Abbott,  rem.  to 
Nashville,  N.  Y. 

EDWARD  SPAULDING,  son  of  Capt.  Levi,  was  born  Nov.  19,  1764  ; 
married  Mehitable  Goodrich,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Sewall  Goodrich  of 
Lyndeborough,  Oct.  30,  1788.  She  was  born  Sept.  25,  1770;  died  July  30, 
1838.  He  early  removed  to  Plainfield,  N.  Y.,  thence  to  Alexander,  N.  Y., 
where  he  and  his  wife  died.  Children,  four  older  born  in  Lyndebor- 
ough  :  — 

1.  ANNA  B.,  b.  Sept.  15,  1789,  m.  first,  George  Grey,  m.  sec- 

ond, Loren  Hodges. 

2.  PHEBE  P.,  b.  Sept.  i,  1791,  m.  Sheffield  Burdick. 

3.  MEHITABLE.  b.  Nov.  16,  1793,  m.  Samuel  Crosby. 

4.  NATHANIEL,  b.  Aug.  28,  1795. 

5.  GEORGE,  b.  Nov.  i,  1797,  in  Plainfield,  N.  Y. 

6.  ELBRIDGE  G.,  b.  1802. 

7.  LUCY,  b.  May  20,  1804. 

8.  WARREN,  b.  Nov.  10,  1806. 

9.  ELBRIDGE  GERRY,  -j- 

ELBRIDGE  GERRY  SPAULDING,  born  Feb.  24,  1809.  Was  a  very 
wealthy  and  influential  man  in  the  financial  circles  of  New  York  state 
and  the  nation.  He  was  state  treasurer  of  New  York,  member  of  con- 
gress six  years  and  the  author  of  the  "legal  tender"  act  passed  by 
congress  during  the  Civil  War. 

LEVI  SPAULDING,  son  of  Capt.  Levi,  was  born  Jan.  25,  1772;  killed 
by  falling  from  a  high  load  of  boxes,  the  sleigh  running  over  him  and 
breaking  his  neck.  He  married  Clara  Goddard  and  had  several  children. 

HENRY  SPAULDING  was  born  in  Merrimack,  N.  H.,  Nov.  3,  1760. 
He  was  of  the  sixth  generation  from  Edward  Spaulding  of  Braintree, 
Mass.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  and  settled  on  the  farm  where  Mrs. 
Ann  Cummings  now  lives.  He  married  Joanna  Russell  of  Dunbarton, 
N.  H.,  Feb.  n,  1787.  She  was  born  June  21,  1766;  died  Nov.  i,  1853, 
aged  87.  He  died  May  31,  1857,  aged  96  years,  6  months  and  28  days. 

Mr.  Spaulding  was  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  knew  him  for  his  many 


856  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

virtues.  He  was  a  genial,  kindly  man,  fond  of  a  story  or  a  jest.  It  is 
said  that  he  never  had  a  sick  day  until  his  final  illness,  and  that  he  rode 
four  miles  to  vote  for  Fremont  and  freedom,  when  in  his  g6th  year.  He 
voted  for  Washington  and  at  each  successive  presidential  election  after- 
ward. He  used  to  say  he  never  had  but  two  serious  complaints  "  lame- 
ness and  laziness."  The  former  he  thought  might  have  been  cured,  had 
it  been  taken  in  season,  but  the  latter  defied  all  prescriptions.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  ACHSAH,  b.  Feb.   i,  1788,  m.  I/evi  Holt,  1811,  d.  June  2, 

1841. 

2.  HENRY,  -(- 

3.  SAMUEL,  b.  Dec.  8,  1792,  d.  Dec.  6,  1798. 

4.  HANNAH,  b.  Dec.   21,   1794,  m.  first,  Stephen  Chapman  of 

Windsor,    N.    H.;  m.    second,    Elijah   Gould   of   Antrim, 
N.  H. 

5.  ELIZABETH,  b.    April  9,    1796,    m.   James   L.    Morrison  of 

Washington,  N.  H.     He  d.  Dec.   25,  1840.     She  d.  April 
i,  1851. 

6.  I/UCINDA,  b.  Aug.  23,  1798,  d.  Sept.  n,  1853. 

7.  MARY,  b.  Sept.  20,  1800,  m.  Franklin  Hadley  of  L/yndebor- 

ough.     (See  Hadley  gen.) 

8.  LEONARD,   -}- 

9.  EDWARD  PAGE,  + 

10.  SAMUEL,  + 

11.  LEVI,  -}- 

HENRY  SPAULDING,  son  of  Henry  and  Joanna  (Russell)  Spauld- 
ing,  born  Nov.  17,  1790;  married  Lucy  Duncklee  of  Greenfield,  N.  H., 
March  23,  1819.  She  was  born  Aug.  16,  1797.  He  removed  to  Greenfield 
and  died  Jan.  21,  1868.  Child  :  Sarah. 

LEONARD  SPAULDING,  son  of  Henry  and  Joanna  (Russell) 
Spaulding,  born  Oct.  2,  1802 ;  married  first,  Ede  Farrington  of  Green- 
field, N.  H.,  Sept.  15,  1831.  She  was  born  Aug.  4,  1800 ;  died  Jan.  26, 
1856;  married  second,  Elizabeth  A.  Fairbanks  of  Francestown,  N.  H., 
Dec.  8,  1856.  She  was  born  Nov.  23,  1813.  He  died  January,  1890. 
Children :  Leonard,  Ebenezer  F.,  Henry  B.,  Isaac  N.,  Augusta  C., 
Sarah  M. 

EDWARD  PAGE  SPALDING,  son  of  Henry  and  Joanna  (Russell) 
Spaulding,  born  July  19,  1805;  married  Mary  Dodge  of  Fraucestown,  N. 
H.,  April  n,  1833.  She  was  born  June  23,  1812 ;  died  July  22,  1877.  He 
died  Jan.  20,  1887.  He  was  a  farmer  and  drover  and  for  many  years  did 
a  large  business  in  the  buying  and  selling  of  cattle.  He  settled  on  the 
farm  where  Mrs.  Edward  Parry  now  lives.  Children,  all  born  in  Lynde- 
borough :  — 

1.  MARY  E.,  b.  Jan.  15,  1834,  d.  Feb.  19,  1834. 

2.  I,EVI  PAGE,  •+• 


EDWARD    PAIGE    SPALDING. 


GENEALOGIES  857 

3.  GEORGE  E.,  -f- 

4.  MERRILL  T.,  -f- 

5.  HEN«Y  E.,  + 

6.  ALFRED   B.,    b.   Aug.    16,    1849.     He  entered    Dartmouth 

College  in  1868.  After  leaving  college  he  made  teaching 
his  vocation.  He  d.  Nov.  9,  1881. 

7.  SAMUEL  A.,  b.  June  14,  1856. 

LEVI  P.  SPALDING.  son  of  Edward  P.  and  Mary  (Dodge)  Spald- 
ing,  born  Dec.  25,  1835 ;  married  July  i,  1863,  Frances  M.,  daughter  of 
Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth  (Mudge)  Fiske.  She  was  born  March  ™,  18*6. 
Children  :  — 

1.  FRED  W.,  b.   April  25,  1864,  m.  Oct.    17,  1901,  Harriet  M. 

Douglas  of  Brighton,  Mass. 

2.  MARY  LIZZIE,  b.  July  23,  1865,  m.  April   18,  1889,  Clifton 

Broad  of  Reading,  Mass.  Mr.  Broad  was  thrown  from  a 
wagon  on  the  road  north  of  where  R.  C.  Mason  lives,  and 
so  badly  injured  that  he  died  a  few  days  later,  Dec.  5, 
1892. 

3.  HENRY  E.,  b.  March  8,  1868,  m.  Florence  Dolliver. 

m.  second,  Mrs.  Fannie  Smith.      Child  : 
Harriet. 

4.  HERBERT  F.,  b.  Feb.  25,  1870,  d.  Jan.  31,  1904. 

5.  SADIE  M.,  b.  Dec.   7,  1874,    m.  Sept.   14,  1899,  Perley  P. 

Ray  of  Brighton,  Mass. 

6.  JENNIE  A.,  b.  April  n,  1879. 

GEORGE  E.  SPALDING,  son  of  Edward  P.  and  Mary  (Dodge) 
Spalding,  born  April  8,  1838 ;  married  June  12,  1866,  Abbie  J.,  daughter 
of  Dea.  William  and  Eliza  (Anderson)  Jones.  She  was  born  Dec.  23, 
1842;  died  Nov.  24,  1883;  married  second,  Nov.  30,  1887,  Mrs.  Eliza  P. 
Richardson,  widow  of  Solon  Richardson  and  daughter  of  Dea.  William 
and  Eliza  (Anderson)  Jones.  She  was  born  Aug.  30,  1839 ;  died  Feb.  19, 
1905.  Mr.  Spalding  purchased  the  Jones  homestead  farm  at  the  centre 
and  has  lived  there  for  many  years.  He  is  extensively  engaged  in  the 
breeding  and  sale  of  cattle,  the  Ayrshire  breed  being  his  favorite  stock. 
Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  WILLIAM  P.,  b.  March  17,  1867;  d.  July  16,  1879. 

2.  JOHN  A.,  b.  Nov.  30,  1872. 

MERRILL  T.  SPALDING,  son  of  Edward  P.  and  Mary  (Dodge) 
Spalding,  born  April  15,  1840;  married  first,  Mrs.  Martha  Snow;  second, 
Sarah  J.,  daughter  of  Brackley  and  Abigail  (Rutherford)  Rose  of  Wil- 
ton, Nov.  20,  1895.  She  was  born  Sept.  3,  1856.  Was  a  soldier  in  Civil 
War.  (See  Chap.  X.) 

DR.  HENRY  E.  SPALDING,  son  of  Edward  Page  and  Mary  (Dodge) 


858  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Spalding;  born  Sept.  24,  1843;  married  June  i,  1870,  Annie  Osgood, 
daughter  of  James  and  Lydia  (Hersey)  Frye. 

His  boyhood  was  spent  on  the  farm  and  was  uneventful  as^were  the 
lives  of  average  farmer's  boys  at  that  time.  Since  he  was  not  especially 
robust  his  parents  encouraged  his  inclination  to  study.  At  the  early  age 
of  two  and  one-half  years  he  found  his  way  into  the  nearby  district  school 
and  from  that  time  he  was  a  regular  attendant  during  the  short  summer 
and  winter  terms  which  made  up  the  school  year.  Some  years  the  win- 
ter term  was  supplemented  by  a  few  additional  weeks  of  instruction  at 
home,  his  father  employing  a  teacher  for  him  and  his  older  brothers.  At 
the  age  of  fourteen  he  left  home  for  a  student's  life  at  Appleton  Academy 
(later  McCollom  Institute),  Mt.  Vernon.  Here  and  a  short  time  ta 
Francestown  Academy  he  pursued  a  course  of  study  preparatory  to  enter- 
ing college.  During  the  winter  months  he  taught  school  as  a  means  of 
earning  money  toward  paying  his  expenses  the  remainder  of  the  year. 

The  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War  found  him  just  completing  his  col- 
lege preparatory  course  of  study,  and  with  it  came  the  question  of  duty 
that  so  deeply  stirred  the  hearts  of  millions.  Responding  to  his  coun- 
try's call,  not  mentioning  all  other  possible  sacrifices  and  losses,  meant 
for  him  the  giving  up  of  the  long  coveted  collegiate  course  of  study,  for 
which  he  had  been  working.  The  decision  was  soon  made  to  offer  all  for 
the  defence  of  the  flag. 

Making  his  personal  decision  he  found  but  a  short  step  toward  enter- 
ing the  army  service.  No  one  under  twenty  years  of  age  could  be  ac- 
cepted without  the  written  consent  of  his  father  or  guardian.  This  his 
father  refused  to  give,  not  from  lack  of  patriotism,  for,  according  to  his 
ability,  he  contributed  liberally  in  aid  of  the  cause,  but  from  belief  that 
lack  of  physical  vigor  unfitted  the  boy  for  the  hardships  of  army  life. 
Subsequent  events  and  the  fact  that  his  regimental  nickname  was  "  little 
fellow  "  would  indicate  that  this  opinion  was  not  groundless.  The  matter 
was  earnestly  discussed  at  home,  but  the  coveted  consent  was  not  ob- 
tained. 

A  war  meeting  was  held  at  the  town  hall.  Several  spoke,  urging  the 
young  men  to  enlist,  among  them  his  father,  closing  his  remarks  with  the 
offer  of  an  extra  bounty  for  each  of  the  first  four  who  would  enlist.  To 
the  surprise  of  all  Henry  sprang  to  his  feet  and  offered  himself  as  the 
first  of  the  four.  The  effect  on  the  audience  can  readily  be  imagined.  As 
the  cheering  subsided  enlistments  followed  each  other  in  rapid  succes- 
sion. Together  with  about  twenty  of  his  classmates  and  friends  he  en- 
tered camp  with  the  i3th  Regt.  N.  H.  Volunteers.  His  father  used  every 
argument  that  words  or  money  could  offer  to  induce  him  to  return  to  his 
home  and  books,  but  finally  yielded  and  gave  unwilling  consent,  when 
convinced  that  otherwise  the  boy  would  follow  the  regiment  as  a  hanger- 
on,  without  pay  or  rations.  The  papers  were  signed  and  he  was  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  only  the  day  before  the  regiment  was  to 
leave  camp  at  Concord  and  start  for  the  seat  of  war.  Soon  after  reaching 
Virginia  he  contracted  typhoid  fever.  He  recovered,  however,  sufficiently 
to  march  with  the  regiment  to  Frederick  sburg  and  take  part  in  that  fear- 
ful battle.  As  spring  came  on  he  again  became  ill,  this  time  with 
malaria.  From  this  there  seemed  little  prospect  of  his  recovering,  and 


GENEALOGIES  859 

his  parents  were  notified  that  he  would  be  discharged  if  they  would  come 
for  him,  he  being  too  ill  to  make  the  journey  alone.  They  sent  their 
family  physician  for  him,  and  this  ended  his  career  as  a  soldier. 

His  early  ambition  had  been  to  fit  himself  for  a  teacher.  What  he  saw 
of  the  inefficiency  of  medical  treatment  in  the  army  hospitals  led  him  to 
abandon  that  and  study  medicine,  for  he  wished  to  learn  from  personal 
investigation  if  there  was  not  something  of  real  value  in  the  science  of 
healing.  Accordingly,  as  soon  as  his  health  had  been  sufficiently  re- 
stored, he  commenced  the  study  of  medicine  under  the  tutorship  of  J.  H. 
Woodbury,  M.  D.,  of  Boston.  He  attended  lectures  at  Harvard  Medical 
School,  and  afterwards  at  the  New  York  Homeopathic  Medical  College, 
from  which  latter  he  graduated  in  1866.  He  immediately  located  in 
Hingham,  Mass.,  where  he  soon  built  up  a  large  practice,  and  where  he 
still  has  a  summer  residence.  In  1888,  after  several  months  of  observation 
and  study  in  the  hospitals  of  Europe  he  opened  an  office  in  Boston,  where 
he  is  now  located  at  535  Beacon  St. 

He  has  been  a  prolific  writer  for  medical  journals  and  for  national, 
state  and  local  medical  societies.  He  is  rectal  surgeon  for  the  Boston 
Homeopathic  Dispensary,  physician  to  the  Burrage  Hospital,  physician 
and  obstetrician  to  the  Massachusetts  Homeopathic  Hospital.  He  has 
been  lecturer  at  the  Boston  University  School  of  Medicine  and  at  the 
Training  School  for  Nurses.  The  profession  has  honored  him  with  the 
presidency  of  the  Boston  Homeopathic  Medical  Society,  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Surgical  and  Gynecological  Society  and  of  the  Massachusetts 
Homeopathic  Medical  Society,  and  also  with  various  positions  of  honor 
and  responsibility  in  several  national  medical  and  surgical  societies. 

At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  became  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  I/yndeborough,  and  has  maintained  an  active  membership  in 
that  denomination  since.  His  wife  is  a  native  of  Haverhill,  Mass.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  HARRY  OSGOOD,  b.  May  4,  1871.     He  was  educated  in  the 

public  schools  and  at  Derby  Academy,  Hingham ;  gradu- 
ated from  Williams  College  in  1894  and  from  the  Boston 
University  School  of  Medicine  in  1897.  He  afterward  lo- 
cated at  Jamaica  Plain,  in  the  meantime  making  a  special 
study  of  nervous  diseases.  He  is  now  on  the  staff  of  the 
Connecticut  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Norwich. 

2.  LOUISE  MARIB,  b.  May  23,  1877. 

3.  BKRNICE,  b.  Jan.  27,  1885. 

SAMUEL  SPAULDING,  son  of  Henry  and  Joanna  (Russell)  Spauld- 
ing,  born  April  6,  1808 ;  married  Ellen  Shaw  of  Wells,  England,  March 
14,  1836.  She  was  born  May  13,  1819.  He  removed  to  Green  Bay,  Mich., 
and  afterward  to  Waterville,  Wis.  Children:  Annie  M.,  Mary  E., 
Christopher  H.,  Ernmeline,  Joanna,  Charlotte  B.,  Lucinda,  Olive  J., 
Samuel  E.,  Violet  M. 

LEVI  SPAL,DING,  son  of  Henry  and  Joanna  (Russell)  Spaulding, 
was  born  Oct.  3,  1809 ;  married  Caroline  Prince  of  Amherst,  N.  H.,  Dec. 


860  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

3,  1839.  She  was  born  June  17,  1819,  and  died  Aug.  20,  1894.  He  died 
June  28,  1891.  He  settled  on  the  Spaulding  homestead,  and  was  a 
quaint  and  kindly  man.  A  prominent  trait  of  both  his  and  of  his 
brother  Edward  Page's  character  was  a  generous  hospitality.  If  anyone 
was  near  them  at  meal  times  he  was  always  pressed  to  stay  and  eat. 
Children  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  EMMELINE,  b.  Aug.  31,  1840,  d.  Aug.  3,  1878. 

2.  CHARLES,  b.    May  10,   1846,  m.  Emma  W.   Follansbee  of 

Andover,  Mass.,  July  24,  1876.     She  was  b.  July  24,  1855. 
Res.  in  Ashburnham,  Mass.     Children  :  Roy  F.,  Helen  L,. 

BYRON  STACY,  son  of  David  and  Louisa  (Curtis)  Stacy,  born  in 
Windsor,  N.  H.,  Nov.  18,  1837;  married  June  29,  1869,  Sarah  A.,  daughter 
of  Joel  H.  and  Esther  (Putnam)  Tarbell  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was 
born  Feb.  24,  1850;  died  Sept.  u,  1882.  He  died  June  3,  1875.  He  came 
to  Lyndeborough  about  1866  and  was  a  mechanic  employed  at  the  glass 
factory.  Child  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

i.  MINNIE  E.,  b.  Oct.  12,  1872,  m.  April  26,  1899,  George  W. 
Hadley,  son  of  L/evi  P.  and  Minerva  (Stevens)  Hadley  of 
I,yndeborough. 

STANDEE  Y. 

GEORGE  A.  STANDLEY,  son  of  Robert  and  Mary  E.  Standley,  born 
March  3,  1871 ;  married  June  22,  1893,  Myra,  daughter  of  William  D. 
and  Ellen  (Hammond)  Cloutman.  She  was  born  Sept.  24,  1871,  in 
Marblehead,  Mass.  He  was  born  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  and  came  to  Lynde- 
borough  in  1902  from  Lynn,  Mass.,  and  bought  the  place  known  as  the 
Hildreth  cottage.  Child :  — 

i.  GEORGE  R.,  b.  Dec.  28,  1900,  in  Lynn. 

STAYNER. 

HENRY  M.  STAYNER  come  to  Lyndeborough  from  Amherst  about 
1840.  He  lived  where  William  B.  Raymond  now  lives  and  died  there 
May  16,  1843.  His  wife,  Abigail  D.,  died  Jan.  n,  1842.  Of  his  children, 
Augusta  married  David  Day  of  Gloucester,  Mass.;  Ellen  married  Capt. 
John  Trevitt  of  Mont  Vernon ;  Josephine  married  Dea.  Boylston  of 
Amherst. 

STEELE. 

WILLIAM  P.  STEELE  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Lawrence,  Mass., 
December,  1857;  born  Nov.  22,  1826;  married  Adaline  E.,  daughter  of 
Eleazer  and  Mary  A.  (Marshall)  Putnam.  She  was  born  March  4,  1833. 
He  was  born  in  Sebec,  Me.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See 
Chap.  X.)  Was  in  the  employ  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  R.  R.  for  many 
years.  Children,  all  but  eldest  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

i.  NELLIE  A.,  b.  in  Lawrence,  Mass.,  March  24,  1853,  m. 
Joseph  E.  Foster.  He  d.  June  13,  1903. 


GENEALOGIES  861 

2.  FRANK  A.,  b.  July  10,  1856. 

3.  GEORGE  W.,  b.  Nov.  10,  1858. 

4.  MARY  A.,  b.  Aug.  24,  1860,  d.  June  6,  1863. 

5.  ARTHUR  I,.,  b.  May  n,  1866,  d.  June  i,  1867. 

6.  EVA  B.,  d.  Sept.  24,  1872. 

7.  MAUD,  b.  Aug.  7,  1869,  m.  Feb.  18,  1892,  Charles  E.  Phil- 

lips of  Swampscott,  Mass. 

8.  HATTIE  D.,  b.  Aug.   7,  1873,  m.  Jan.    18,  1900,  Walter  H. 

Murdo  of  Peterboro.     She  d.  Aug.  8,  1902. 

STEPHENSON. 

JOHN  STEPHENSON  was  the  first  of  the  name  to  come  to  Salem- 
Canada.  He  is  said  to  have  come  from  Jersey,  England.  He  first  settled 
north  of  the  mountain  in  1740,  but  evidently  remained  there  but  a  short 
time,  for  hearing  that  there  was  grass  over  the  other  side  and  as  grass 
was  a  prime  necessity  to  those  first  settlers,  he  promptly  moved  over  the 
other  side  of  the  mountain.  The  grass  referred  to  grew  in  those  meadows 
east  of  where  W.  J.  Stephenson  lives.  Those  meadows  were  undoubt- 
edly caused  by  beavers  damming  the  streams.  The  resulting  flowage 
killed  the  trees,  and  when  the  dams  were  destroyed  and  the  land  drained 
wild  grasses  grew  in  abundance.  He  bought  two  lots  of  land  which  in- 
cluded most  of  those  meadows,  and  that  land  has  remained  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  Stephenson  family  ever  since.  When  the  charter  of  the 
town  of  Lyndeborough  was  granted,  April  23,  1764,  he  was  appointed  a 
committee  to  obtain  the  said  charter  March  5,  1764,  and  he  was  author- 
ized to  call  the  first  meeting  of  the  new  town.  At  this  meeting  he  was 
chosen  town  clerk,  thus  being  the  first  person  to  hold  the  office  in 
Lyndeborough.  He  was  continued  in  office  several  years.  Most  of  the 
family  papers  were  destroyed  when  Jonathan  Stephenson's  house  was 
burned,  and  therefore  the  record  is  necessarily  imperfect.  Among  the 
treasured  possessions  of  his  descendants  is  his  commission  to  be  a 
captain  in  Tenth  Co.  of  the  Sixth  Regt.  of  Militia.  This  commission  is 
dated  Oct.  4,  1764,  and  signed  by  B.  Wentworth,  governor,  and  by  I. 
Atkinson,  Jr.,  Sec'y.  Also  a  copy  of  the  province  laws  of  His  Majesty's 
Province  of  New  Hampshire,  printed  in  1771,  and  presented  to  John 
Stephenson  by  his  friend,  Benjamin  Lynde,  Oct.  28,  1773.  He  married 
Abigail  Shepherd  of  Amherst.  They  had  six  children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,    -(- 

2.  ABIGAIL,  b.  Oct.  3,  1769. 

3.  I/YDIA,  b.  Dec.  2,  1772,  m.  first,  John  Richardson;  m.   sec- 

ond,   Davis. 

4.  SARAH,  b.   Feb.   n,    1778,  m.   Supply  Wilson  of   New  Ip- 

swich.    She  d.  Dec.  4,  1866. 

5.  WILLIAM,  b.  April  29,  1780,  d.  May  4,  1830. 

6.  I/UCY,  b.  Nov-  25,  1782,  d.  Feb.   i,  1814. 


862  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

*JOHN  STEPHENSON,  JR.,  son  of  John  and  Abigail  (Shepherd) 
Stephenson,  born  Dec.  8,  1767;  married  Mary  Hildreth  of  Amherst.  She 
died  Nov.  17,  1845.  He  died  May,  1847.  Children  :  — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  1792,  d.  May  18,  1883. 

2.  MARY,  b.  1794,  d.  Dec.  8,  1881. 

3.  JACOB,  + 

4-  JOHN, 

5.  JOTHAM,  -f 

6.  JONATHAN,  + 

JACOB  STEPHENSON,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Hildreth)  Stephenson, 
born  Oct.  2,  1803  ;  married  Dec.  17.  1835,  Lucy  Harthan  of  Greenfield. 
She  died  March  22,  1887.  He  died  Feb.  17,  1867.  Children  :  — 

1.  EZRA  B.,  b.  in  L/yndeborough,  Sept.  26,   1836,  d.   Oct.  4, 

1894,  at  Springfield,  Mass. 

2.  ABBY  M.,  b.    Dec.    i,   1837,  in  Lyndeborough,  d.    Dec.    2, 


3.  ALBE,    b.  June   29,    1839,    in   Greenfield,    d.    at   Hillsboro 

Bridge. 

4.  LUCIA  M.,  b.  April  12,  1842,  d.  Nov.  8,  1844. 

JOTHAM  STEPHENSON,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Hildreth)  Stephen. 
son,  born  Feb.  28,  1805  ;  married  July  20,  1826,  Lucinda,  daughter  of 
Heman  L.  and  Hepsibah  Sargent.  She  was  born  Oct.  29.  1806  ;  died 
Nov.  7,  1871.  He  died  Oct.  14,  1883.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOTHAM  S.,  + 

2.  MARY  L,.,  b.  March  12,  1830,  m.  Joseph  A.  Johnson.     (See 

Johnson  gen.) 

3.  JOHN  H.,  b.  Aug.  29,  1833,  d.  June  17,  1867.     Was  soldier 
in  the  Civil  War.     (See  Chap.  X.) 

4.  JONATHAN  H.,  b.  Sept.   21,  1835,  d.  Dec.   27,   1864.     Was 

soldier  in  the  Civil  War.     (See  Chap.  X.) 

5.  ELIZA  A.,  b.  March  6,  1838,  m.  April  20,  1865,  Herbert  M. 

Potter. 

6.  WILLIAM  R.,   b.   Aug.    10,    1841,  m.  Dec.  31,   1872,  Lottie 

Felt. 

7.  LUCY  A.,  b.  June  9,  1846,  d.  Aug.   17,  1870. 

8.  SOLON  A.,  b.  Oct.  24,  1848,  d.  Nov.  12,  1849. 

JOTHAM  SUMNER  STEPHENSON,  son  of  Jotham  and  Lucinda 
(Sargent)  Stephenson,  born  June  29,  1827;  married  Sarah  A.  Powers, 
Jan.  24,  1862.  He  died  September  8,  1905.  Children:  — 

*The  Stephensons  were  largely  interested  in  the  mill  business  in  I,yndeborough, 
Jonothan  owning  a  saw  mill  near  his  place  and  formerly  one  above  the  place  where 
the  present  mill  stands.  They  owned  a  saw  mill  west  of  the  Forest  road,  near  where 
Jotham  S.  Stephenson  lived. 


GENEALOGIES  863 

1.  L,ILLIAN. 

2.  HARTWELL  M. 

3.  CHARLES. 

JONATHAN  STEPHENSON,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Hildreth) 
Stephenson ;  born  March  19,  1807  ;  married  Sept.  30,  1843,  Emily,  daugh- 
ter of  Eleazer  and  Rachel  (Houston)  Woodward.  She  was  born  April  4, 
1817  ;  died  July  6,  1892.  He  died  Nov.  16,  1903.  He  was  a  man  who  com- 
manded the  respect,  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  neighbors  and  fellow- 
townsmen.  His  strict  integrity  and  sterling  sense  made  his  advice  to  be 
sought,  and  placed  him  in  many  positions  of  trust  in  town  affairs.  For  a 
long  series  of  years  he  had  charge  of  the  town's  poor,  and  many  of  the 
buildings  at  the  town  farm  were  built  or  improved  under  his  supervision. 
He  was  many  times  one  of  the  board  of  selectmen,  and,  in  fact,  he  held  at 
one  time  or  another  about  all  the  offices  the  town  could  give  him.  His 
house  was  totally  destroyed  by  fire,  but  was  soon  replaced  by  a  new  one. 
He  died  Nov.  10,  1903.  Children  :  — 

1.  MARIA  H.,  b.  Sept.  26,  1845,  d.  Sept.  7,  1879. 

2.  EDWARD  J.,  b.  Jan.    15,    1850,  res.  in  Rollinsville,   Colo., 

where  he  has  long  time  been  a  mining  prospector. 

3.  WILUS  j.,  + 

4  and  5.  ETTA  M.  and  EMMA  M.  (twins),  b.  Sept.  12,  1859. 
Etta  M.  m.  Frank  H.  Joslin.  (See  Joslin  gen.)  Emma  M. 
m.  Perley  W.  Hadley  and.  res.  in  Temple. 

WILLIS  J.  STEPHENSON,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Emily  (Woodward) 
Stephenson;  born  Sept.  20,  1852;  married  Nov.  27,  1884,  Frances  C., 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Caroline  (Andrews)  Goodhue  of  Hancock. 
She  was  born  Nov.  n,  1854.  He  lived  in  Colorado  for  a  number  of  years 
in  young  manhood  days,  but  returned  to  take  charge  of  the  Stephen- 
son  homestead,  which  has  always  been  owned  by  his  ancestors  since  it 
was  cleared  of  the  virgin  forest.  Child  :  — 

i.  ERNEST  J.,  b.  May  8,  1893. 

STEVENS. 

GEORGE  H.  STEVENS,  born  at  Francestown  Aug.  13,  1834  ;  married 
first,  Dec.  25,  1862,  Hattie  S.  Burnham  of  New  Boston.  She  was  born 
June  12,  1839 ;  died  March  30,  1872  ;  married  second,  Sept.  24,  1872,  Mary 
P.,  daughter  of  Dea.  John  C.  and  Pamela  (Atwood)  Goodrich.  She  was 
born  May  i,  1839.  He  died  Feb.  9,  1901.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  ASAHEL  D.,  b.  at  Lowell,  Nov.  27,  1864. 

2.  ALBERT  B.,  b.  at  L/yndeborough  Dec.  18,  1871. 
Child  by  second  wife  :  — 

3.  CHARLES  E.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough  April  3,  1874,  d.  March 

14,  1878. 

STILES. 

MOSES  STILES,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Gary)  Stiles  ;  born  in 


864  H1STOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

Boxford,  Mass.,  Feb.  n,  1704;  married  Oct.  17,  1737,  Phebe,  daughter  of 
John  and  Sarah  (Holt)  Cram.  She  was  born  at  Hampton  Falls,  July  8, 
1712.  He  lived  on  the  Lakin  place.  Children :  — 

1.  MOSES,  + 

2.  JOHN,  + 

3.  SAMUEL,  m.  Sarah  Button. 

4.  REUBEN,  b.  in  Salem-Canada,  June  13,   1749,  was  killed  by 

the  falling  of  the  frame  of  the  meeting  house  at  Wilton, 
Sept.  7,  1773. 

5.  ASAHEL,  -f 

6.  AARON. 

MOSES  STILES,  JR.,  son  of  Moses  and  Phebe  (Cram)  Stiles ;  mar- 
ried Sarah  .  Children  :  — 

1.  SARAH,  b.  March  24,  1762. 

2.  MOSES,  b.  June  6,  1765,  m.  Mary  Holt. 

3.  AARON,  b.  Sept.  18,  1767,  m.  Abial  Sadler. 

4.  MARY,  b.  June  14,  1770,  d.  Sept.  8,  1777. 

5.  PHEBE,  b.  June  22,  1774,  d.  Sept.  5,  1777. 

6.  SAMUEL,  b.  Sept.  15,  1776,  d.  Sept.  9,  1777. 

7.  SAMUEL,  b.  April  19,  1779,  m.  Betsey  Cram. 

JOHN  STILES,  son  of  Moses  and  Phebe  (Cram)  Stiles;  married 
Susanna  Chamberlain.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN,  b.  Oct.  22,  1778,  d.  April  16,  1786. 

2.  SUSANNA,  b.  Oct.  4,  1780,  d.  May  12,  1786. 

3  and  4.  MESECH  W.,  BETTY  (twins),  b.  Jan.  20,  1783,  d.  Feb. 

10,  1783. 
5.  JOHN,  b.  May  17,  1786. 

ASAHEL  STILES,  son  of  Moses  and  Phebe  (Cram)  Stiles ;  married 
Sarah  Button.  Children :  — 

1.  DANIEL,  b.  Oct.  21,  1768. 

2.  ESTHER,  b.  Aug.  25,  1770,  d.  March  27,  1785. 

3.  SARAH,  b.  March  17,  1773. 

4.  HANNAH,  b.  Feb.  27,  1775. 

5.  RHODA,  b.  Sept.  8,  1778. 

6.  REUBEN,  b.  Dec.  30,  1780. 

7.  ASAHEL,  b.  Oct.  20,  1783. 

8.  ESTHER,  b.  July  7,  1786. 

STILES. 

DAVID  STILES,  son  of  Asa  and  Huldah  (Bixby)  Stiles;  born  at  Mid- 
dleton,  Mass.,  Dec.  22,  1779;  died  June  25,  1870;  married  Betsey  E., 
daughter  of  Andrew  and  Elizabeth  (Clark)  Mack  of  Londonderry,  N.  H. 


GENEALOGIES  865 

"  Squire  "  Stiles  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  life  of  Lyndeborough  in 
his  day.  He  was  the  third  postmaster  appointed  in  the  town,  serving 
from  April,  1835,  to  May,  1837.  He  was  selectman,  1839-1841,  and  held 
other  town  offices.  He  was  for  many  years  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
was  much  engaged  in  settling  estates.  He  was  a  surveyor,  also,  and  the 
running  of  lines  and  surveying  land  occupied  much  of  his  time.  He  was 
a  man  of  much  ability,  quaint  and  original  in  his  expressions,  and  his 
opinions  were  much  respected.  He  lived  where  William  H.  Clark  now 
lives.  He  was  a  resident  at  different  times  of  Temple,  Wilton,  Milford 
and  Lyndeborough.  Children,  born  in  Temple  :  — 

1.  ELIZA  J.,  b.  Aug.   10,   1809,  d.  Oct.  14,  1868. 

2.  DAVID,  -}- 

3.  FRANCES,  b.  Sept.  12,  1814. 

DAVID  STILES,  son  of  David  and  Betsey  (Mack)  Stiles,  born  Feb.  4, 
1811 ;  married  May  13,  1841,  Maria  M.,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah 
(Clark)  Goodrich.  She  was  born  April  23,  1810  ;  died  Dec.  31,  1885.  He 
was  the  fourth  postmaster  at  I/yndeborough.  He  was  killed  by  being 
run  over  by  a  train  at  the  railroad  crossing  above  South  Lyndeborough, 
Jan.  24,  1881.  It  was  a  cold  winter  morning  and  he  was  probably  so 
wrapped  up  as  to  be  unable  to  hear  the  engine.  Children  :  — 

1.  BENJAMIN  G.,   b.  in  L/yndeborough,  Jan.  9,   1845,  d.  Jan. 

28,  1845. 

2.  MARIA,  b.  in  L/yndeborough,'  Jan.  2,  1847,  d.  Jan.  2,  1847. 

3.  DAVID  A.,  -f- 

4.  MARIA  E.,  b.  May  n,   1861,  at   Mt.   Vernon,  d.   April  5, 

1868. 

5.  L/UCY  S.,  b.  in  Mt.  Vernon,  March  28,  1854. 

DAVID  A.  STILES,  son  of  David  and  Maria  (Goodrich)  Stiles,  born 
June  24,  1849;  married  Eugelia  J.  Brooks  of  Greenfield,  Nov.  27,  1873. 
He  taught  school  in  Lyndeborough  for  a  number  of  terms.  Children :  — 

1.  L/ILLIAN,  b.  May  15,  1877. 

2.  EDITH  M.,  b.  Jan  23,  1879. 

3.  ANNABELI,,  b.  Jan.  13,  1883. 

4.  L/UCY,  b.  Nov.  21,  1886. 

STRATTON. 

DAVID  STRATTON  took  a  deed  of  part  of  the  lot  where  Melchize- 
deck  Boffee  was  located  in  1745.  This  lot  is  now  the  farm  of  Andy  Holt. 
The  first  information  we  have  of  him  is  that  he  came  to  Lyndeborough 
in  company  with  William  Holt,  and  built  a  log  house  about  40  rods 
south  of  where  Andy  Holt  lives,  and  the  two  spent  the  first  winter  of 
their  stay  in  hunting  and  trapping  bears.  Later  William  Holt  bought 
the  proprietors'  rights  in  two  lots  now  owned  by  Benjamin  G.  Herrick, 
while  Stratton  bought  and  improved  the  lot  where  he  was.  The  farm 
was  alternately  owned  by  the  Holt  and  Stratton  families  several  times. 
We  have  made  diligent  search  but  are  not  sure  where  Stratton  came 


866  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

from  to  Lyndeborough,  but  it  is  probable  he  came  from  Andover,  Mass. 
Rev.  Frank  G.  Clark  says  James  Stratton  settled  on  Cornelius  Tarbell's 
right,  and  that  David  might  be  a  son  of  James  but  it  is  more  likely  they 
were  brothers.  There  is  nothing  in  the  town  records  to  show  that  James 
had  any  children  born  in  Lyndeborough,  but  there  is  the  following  rec- 
ord of  the  children  of  David  Stratton  and  Eunice,  his  wife  .  — 

1.  EUNICE,  b.  June  13,  1774. 

2.  DAVID,  b.  Aug.  25,  1776. 

3.  JOHN,  b.  Jan.  n,  1779. 

4.  RACHEL,  b.  April  24,  1781, 

5.  RICHARD,  b.  April  n,  1783. 

SWASEY. 

EDWIN  SWASEY,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Lydia  (Ladd)  Swasey,  born 
May  20,  1815,  at  Meredith,  N.  H.;  married  April  5,  1842,  Mary  E., 
daughter  of  Joel  and  Betsey  ( Shattuck)  Tarbell.  She  was  born  Feb.  2, 
1820.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Milford,  Mass.,  in  1880,  and  with 
his  wife  assumed  the  management  of  the  boarding  house  at  South 
Lyndeborough  village,  owned  by  his  brother-in-law,  Joel  H.  Tarbell. 
He  died  June  4,  1904.  Children,  all  but  Mary  E.  born  at  Manchester :  — 

1.  MARY  E.,  b.  at  Lowell,  Aug.  2,  1844,  d.  Aug.  24,  1853. 

2.  EMMA  E.,  b.  Aprils,  1848,  d.  Oct.   18,  1849. 

3.  EDWIN  B.,  b.  April  21,  1851,  d.  Aug,  21,  1853. 
3.  ELLA  M.,  b.  April  20,  1853,  d.  July  12,  1855. 

5.  GEORGE  E.,  b.  July  21,  1857,   m.  Mary  Burns  of  Milford, 

Mass.,  d.  Aug.  26,  1904. 

6.  LAURA  S.,  b.  Feb.  14,  1860,  d.  August,  1860. 

7.  LILLIAN  M.,  b.  June  17,  1866,  m.   Feb.  9,  1892,  Oscar  E. 

Cram.     (See  Cram  gen.) 

SWINNINGTON. 

ALBERT  E.  SWINNINGTON,  son  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Farnum) 
Swinnington,  born  May  30,  1855 ;  married  S.  Kate,  daughter  of  Eli  C. 
and  Betsey  Ann  Curtis,  June  29,  1881.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from 
Mont  Vernon,  N.  H.  Child  :  — 

i.  E.  CLARABEL,  b.  May  2,  1897. 

TARBELL. 

JOEL  TARBELL  was  the  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Barrett)  Tarbell, 
born  July  9,  1793 ;  married  first,  Betsey  Shattuck,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Shattuck  of  Pepperell,  Mass.  She  died  Oct.  29,  1829,  in  Bolton,  Mass.; 
married  second,  Mary  Mansfield  of  Rindge,  Oct.  10,  1831.  She  was  born 
Nov.  8,  1807;  died  Dec.  6,  1873.  He  died  Sept.  18,  1851.  Children  by 
first  wife,  born  in  Mason:  — 

I.  JOEL  H.,   + 


GENEALOGIES  867 

2.  MARY  E.,  b.  Feb.  2,   1820,  m.  Edwin  Swasey  of  I^aconia. 

(See  Swasey  gen.) 

3.  WILLIAM,  b.  July  4,  1824,  m.  Mary  A.  Noyes  of  Amherst 

He  kept  the  hotel  at  South  L,yndeborough  for  a  short  time. 
By  second  wife  :  — 

4.  L,Evi,  b.  Aug.  8,  1832,  d.  Dec.  9,  1832. 

5.  CHARGES,  -+- 

6.  SoivON,  b.  in  Mason,  now  Greenville,  Oct.  4,  1835 ;  m.  first, 

Jan.  i,  1863,  Abigail  Burton  of  Wilton.  She  was  b.  July 
29,  1833,  d.  March  28,  1887;  m.  second,  Myra  Gregg  of 
Peterboro,  Jan.  i,  1894.  She  was  b.  Jan.  8,  1836.  He  d. 
in  Peterboro. 

7.  ALONZO,  m.  Sarah  C.  Piper.     Res.  in  Manchester. 

8.  HIRAM,  -f- 

9.  JOSEPH,  -f- 

10.  ESTHER  J.,  b.  Oct.  2,  1846,  d.  Oct.  18,  1849. 

11.  Willis,  b.  Jan.  5,  1849,  d.  Oct.  14,  1849. 

CAPT.  JOEL  H.  TARBEIvI/  was  descended  from  Thomas  Tarbell, 
one  of  the  original  proprietors  of  Groton  in  1661.  The  name  is  not  a 
common  one  in  this  country.  Joel  H.  was  of  the  fourth  generation 
from  Thomas  of  Groton.  His  father,  Joel,  lived  for  a  time  in  Lynde- 
borough.  Joel  Harrison  Tarbell  was  emphatically  a  self-made  man.  He 
had  but'meagre  opportunity  for  schooling  but  made  the  most  of  those 
chances.  After  the  age  of  twelve  years  he  was  apparently  thrown  on 
his  own  resources,  and  had  to  fight  the  battle  of  life  without  much 
help.  In  1828  he  was  at  Bolton,  Mass.,  caring  for  a  stable  and  assisting 
in  a  drug  store  and  the  postoffice.  While  here  he  lived  with  Dr.  Amos 
Parker  and  had  five  weeks  of  schooling  at  a  Quaker  school  taught  by 
Elder  Frye  in  Berlin,  Mass.,  walking  to  and  from  school  morning  and 
evening,  this  being  the-  only  education  ever  received  except  from  the 
common  district  school.  While  he  was  here  his  mother  died,  Oct.  29, 
1829,  leaving  him  without  a  parental  home.  He  returned  to  New  Hamp- 
shire at  the  age  of  fourteen  and  went  to  work  for  Ebenezer  Stiles  of 
Temple,  attending  short  terms  of  the  district  school  in  winter.  He  re- 
mained in  this  family  until  about  twenty  years  of  age,  becoming  ac- 
quainted with  farm  life  in  all  its  details.  One  year  after  the  death  of 
Mr.  Stiles  he  went  to  Pepperell,  Mass.,  and  worked  one  season  and  then 
came  back  to  Lyudeborough,  where  he  resided  until  his  death. 

At  the  time  of  his  marriage  he  settled  in  what  is  now  called  the  village 
of  South  Lyndeborough,  and  entered  into  the  business  of  hotel  keeping* 
and  also  farming  in  a  small  way.  He  soon  found  his  business  growing. 
Always  cheerful  and  urbane,  he  made  an  model  landlord,  and  his  place 
was  popular  with  the  traveling  public  and  with  the  summer  boarders 
that  began  to  come  to  the  place.  After  about  fifteen  years  at  this  busi- 
ness he  changed  to  that  of  the  general  country  store,  which  he  and  his 
descendants  have  kept  until  the  present  writing.  Ever  courteous  and 


868  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

obliging,  he  built  up  a  large  trade  for  such  a  place.  Always  helping  to 
make  the  village  more  attractive,  he  interested  himself  in  all  the  material 
things  that  tended  to  its  upbuilding.  He  was  a  kind  and  helpful  friend 
to  the  unfortunate  and  the  poor  and  needy.  He  was  honored  by  the 
town  in  being  elected  to  many  public  offices,  the  duties  of  which  he  dis- 
charged with  fidelity.  He  was  captain  of  the  Lafayette  Artillery  Co.  at 
the  time  they  volunteered  to  go  into  the  U.  S.  service,  and  his  military 
record  may  be  found  elsewhere. 

Capt.  Joel  H.  Tarbell,  son  of  Joel  and  Betsey  (Shattuck)Tarbell  was  born 
in  Mason  Feb.  6,  1816;  married  Jan.  15,  1839,  Esther,  daughter  of 
Ephraim  and  Esther  (Pearson)  Putnam.  She  was  born  June  8,  1818; 
died  Nov.  14,  1901.  He  died  Feb.  14,  1891.  Children,  all  born  in  Lynde- 
borough  :  — 

1.  SANFORD  P.,  b.  July  5,  1839,  d.  Jan.  7,  1842. 

2.  CHARLES  F.,  + 

3.  SARAH  A.,  b.  Feb.  24,   1850,   m.  Byron  Stacy  of  Windsor, 

N.  H.     (See  Stacy  gen.) 

CHARLES  F.  TARBELL,  son  of  Joel  H.  and  Esther  (Putnam)  Tar- 
bell;  born  Nov.  19,  1843;  married  May  18,  1865,  Emily,  daughter  of 
Rufus  and  Martha  J.  (Upton)  Chamberlain  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was 
born  March  3,  1844.  He  died  Feb.  24,  1888.  He  was  a  merchant  at  South 
Lyndeborough,  associated  with  his  father  in  keeping  the  store,  and  in 
general  trade.  He  was  elected  town  clerk  in  the  spring  of  1871,  and  with 
the  exception  of  1880  held  the  office  continuously  until  1885,  when  he 
was  succeeded  by  Edgar  A.  Danforth.  He  held  other  public  office,  and 
was  a  courteous  and  efficient  officer.  He  was  quiet  and  anassuming  in 
manner,  and  had  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his  associates  and  towns- 
people. Like  his  father  he  was  interested  in  military  matters,  and  was  a 
soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X.)  Children,  born  in  Lyndebor- 
ough :  — 

1.  WALTER  S.,  + 

2.  CHARLES  H.,  -}- 

WALTER  S.  TARBELL,  son  of  Charles  F.  and  Emily  (Chamberlain) 
Tarbell;  born  Jan.  2.  1867;  married  Oct.  30,  1890,  Lizzie  G.,  daughter  of 
Isaiah  B.  and  Mary  J.  (Holt)  Curtis.  She  was  born  April  3,  1871.  He 
succeeded  his  father  and  grandfather  in  the  business  at  South  Lyndebor- 
ough. He  is  justice  of  the  peace  and  prominent  in  several  organizations 
and  in  social  circles.  Child,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

i.  GERTRUDE  E.,  b.  Sept.  30,  1898. 

CHARLES  H.  TARBELL,  son  of  Charles  F.  and  Emily  (Chamberlain) 
Tarbell ;  born  June  28,  1874 ;  married  Oct.  20,  1897,  Annie  A.,  daughter 
of  Harlan  P.  and  Maria  (Stevens)  Downs  of  Francestown.  She  was  born 
Nov.  n,  1871.  He  is  town  treasurer,  and  was  for  a  while  associated  with 
his  brother,  Walter  S.,  in  the  store  at  South  Lyndeborough.  Child,  born 
in  Lyndeborough :  — 

i.  CAROLYN  E.,  b.  Nov.  26,  1898. 


GENE  A  L  OGIES  869 

CHARLES  TARBELL,  son  of  Joel  and  Mary  (Mansfield)  Tarbell  ; 
born  in  Greenville,  Sept.  n,  1833  ;  married  Nov.  19,  1854,  Emma  F., 
daughter  of  Capt.  Levi  and  Rhoda  (Pettengill)  Tyler  of  Wilton.  She 
was  born  June  17,  1834.  He  died  April  2,  1896.  He  was  selectman  in 
1871,  and  represented  the  town  in  the  General  Court  in  1880-81.  He  re- 
sided in  Perham  Corner,  where  Oliver  Perham  first  built,  Children  :  — 

1.  NELO  W.,  + 

2.  FRED  H.,  + 


NELO  W.  TARBELL,  son  of  Charles  and  Emma  F.  (Tyler)  Tarbell  ; 
born  in  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  25,  1855  ;  married  first,  April  9,  1879,  Anna 
L.  Kimball  of  Wilton.  She  was  born  March  30,  1855  ;  died  Aug.  13,  1882  ; 
married  second,  Jennie  M.  Whitney  of  Nashua  ;  born  April  21,  1861.  Re- 
sides in  Nashua.  Children  by  first  wife,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  SAMUEL  K.,  b.  Jan.  2,  1880. 

2.  JOSEPHINE  F.,  b.  July  15,  1881. 

FRED  H.  TARBELL,  son  of  Charles  and  Emma  (Tyler)  Tarbell  ;  born 
at  Wilton  July  21,  1870;  married  Nov.  8,  1892,  Emma  C.,  daughter  of 
Albert  and  Sarah  (Davis)  Foster  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  at 
Brookline  July  29,  1872.  Children,  all  born  at  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  PAUL  HARRISON,  b.  Nov.  20,  1895,  d.  Feb.  i,  1896. 

2.  MYRTLE  M.,  b.  Jan.  13,  1899,  d.  July  12,  1899. 

3.  AMY  GLADYS,  b.  May  28,  1900. 

4.  DORIS  K.,  b.  May  9,  1903. 

HIRAM  TARBELL.  son  of  Joel  and  Mary  (Mansfield)  Tarbell  ;  born  at 
Mason,  N.  H.,  March  7,  1840;  married  Feb.  22,  1865,  Martha  N,  Murch  of 
Portland,  Me.  She  was  born  Aug.  25,  1837  ;  died  May  5,  1903.  He  re- 
sides at  Manchester.  Children  :  — 

1.  ALICE  F.,  b.  Jan.  2,  1867,  at  L/yndeborough. 

2.  FANNIE  I.,  b.  March  3,  1873,  at  I,yndeborough. 

3.  ARTHUR  C.,  b.  May  26,  1875,  at  Manchester,  N.  H. 

4.  GRACE  K.,  b.  Dec.  16,  1876,  at  Manchester,  N.  H. 

JOSEPH  TARBELL,  son  of  Joel  and  Mary  (Mansfield)  Tarbell  ;  born 
Feb.  22,  1844  ;  married  June  6,  1867,  Amaret,  daughter  of  Joshua  S.  and 
Sarah  (Gilchrist)  Lakin  of  Hancock.  She  was  born  June  26,  1847.  Re- 
sides in  Hancock.  Children,  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

1.  SANFORD  M.,  b.  May  23,  1879. 

2.  EDITH  E.,  b.  Sept.   19,   1880,  m.  April  27,  1904,  Henry  E. 

Fiske  of  Dublin. 

TAY. 

NATHANIEL  TAY  was  born  at  Reading,  Mass.  He  came  to  Lynde- 
borough from  Nelson,  N.  H.,  but  had  previously  lived  at  Fitchburg.  In 
1820,  in  company  with  Elias  Mclntire,  he  bought  the  farm  where  Dea. 
Nathaniel  T.  Mclntire  lives,  each  owning  an  equal  share.  He  married 


870  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

Rachel,  daughter  of  John  and  Triphena  (Powers)  Kidder.  She  was  born 
March  8,  1769  ;  died  at  Lyndeborough,  Sept.  6,  1828.  He  died  at  Lynde- 
borough March  23,  1836.  His  marriage  with  Rachel  Kidder  was  his  sec- 
ond marriage  ;  we  have  no  record  of  his  first. 

TAY. 

FRANK  B.  TAY,  son  of  Jesse  and  Charlotte  (Duley)  Tay ;  born  in 
Bedford,  N.  H.,  Jan.  21,  1837;  married  first,  Oct.  16,  1864,  Elizabeth 
White  of  Middleton,  Mass.  She  died  March  9,  1865  ;  married  second, 
Sept.  26,  1872,  Sarah  J.  Wright  of  Maiden,  Mass.;  married  third,  Oct.  4, 
1888,  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Goldsmith,  daughter  of  Burnham  and  Mary  (Sawyer) 
White  of  Andover,  Mass.  She  was  born  Oct.  2, 1845.  He  came  to  Lynde- 
borough  from  Stoneham,  Mass.,  in  1878,  and  bought  the  French  place 
north  of  Badger  Pond.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War. 

BRADLEY  B.  TAY,  son  of  Jesse  and  Charlotte  (Duley)  Tay,  built  a 
house  on  the  top  of  the  mountain,  south  of  R.  C.  Mason's,  and  resides 
there  summers. 

TWITCHEL. 

ASA  TWITCHEL  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Peterborough  and 
settled  on  the  place  now  known  as  the  Twitchel  place,  North  Lynde- 
borough. It  is  now  used  as  a  summer  home  by  Mrs.  M.  A.  Sweetser  of 
Stoneham,  Mass.  We  have  endeavored  to  ascertain  who  the  first  settler 
was  on  this  land.  It  was  probably  one  of  the  Lewis  family  but  nothing 
definite  is  known.  People  by  the  name  of  Crosby  lived  on  the  place 
at  one  time,  and  later  Hezekiah  Duncklee  lived  there.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Twitchell  removed  to  Peterborough  about  1860.  Mr.  Twitchell  had  a 
sister,  Mary,  who  lived  with  him.  We  have  no  record  of  the  family. 
Mr.  Twitchell  used  to  display  a  large  collection  of  geological  specimens 
on  his  front  yard  fence,  part  of  which  was  bought  by  the  writer,  and 
some  of  which  are  still  in  his  possession. 

TYLER. 

CAPT.  LEVI  TYLER,  born  Oct.  22,  1800;  married  Sept.  27,  1825, 
Rhoda,  daughter  of  William  and  Sarah  (Ballard)  Pettengill  of  Wilton. 
She  was  born  Sept.  5,  1803.  He  died  May  26,  1870.  He  came  to  Lynde- 
borough in  1840  and  built  a  mill  northwest  of  South  Lyndeborough 
village,  afterward  owned  by  C.  Henry  Holt  and  later  by  Hadley  Bros. 
He  was  a  millwright  and  carpenter.  He  acquired  his  rank  as  captian  in 
the  22nd  Cavalry  Regt.,  N.  H.  Militia.  Children,  none  but  Erastus  born 
in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  SARAH  B.,  b.    Dec.   19,  1826,  m.    Oct.    25,    1849,  Abel   S. 

Boynton.     Res.  in  Wisconsin. 

2.  L,EVI  A.,  -f- 

3.  RHODA  M.,  b.  Nov.  29,  1829,  m.  Jonathan  P.  Richardson  of 

L/yndeborough.     (See  Richardson  gen.) 

4.  EMMA  F.,  b.  June  17,  1834,  m.   Charles  Tarbell  of  L/ynde- 

borough.     (See  Tarbell  gen.) 


GENEALOGIES  871 

5    ERASTUS  F.,   b.  in  L/yndeborough,  Sept.  26,  1844,  d.  Feb. 
24,  1845. 

LEVI  ANDREW  TYLER,  son  of  Levi  and  Rhoda  (Pettengill)  Tyler, 
born  April  17,  1828;  married  Hannah,  daughter  of  Eli  and  Sarah  (Lor- 
ing)  Curtis,  Dec.  24,  1853.  She  was  born  June  26,  1835 ;  died  Aug.  20, 
1884;  married  second,  April  6,  1886,  Mrs.  Frances  A.  Bales  of  Wilton. 
Children :  — 

1.  ISABELLE  V.,   b.   Jan.    27,   1855,  m.   Jerome   B.    Shedd  of 

Peterboro. 

2.  ANNA  V.,  b.  May  29,  1860,  d.  Feb.  5,  1897. 

3.  OLIVA  B.,  b.  July  15,  1868,  m.  B.  A.  French  of  Wilton. 

UPTON. 

ELIJAH  UPTON  was  a  descendant  of  Richard  and  Rachel  (Rich) 
Upton  of  Wilmington,  Mass.  Their  son  Paul,  born  at  Wilmington, 
Aug.  12,  1751,  was  the  father  of  Elijah.  Elijah  was  born  at  Wilmington, 
Nov.  6,  1785  ;  married  first,  April  18,  1813,  Alice,  daughter  of  Aaron  and 
Phebe  (Farnum)  Putnam.  She  was  born  at  Lyndeborough,  Dec.  7,  1792, 
and  died  at  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  25,  1832  ;  married  second,  Sarah,  daugh- 
ter of  Thomas  and  Patty  (Coburn)  Bradford.  Elijah  the  son  of  Paul  and 
Jerusha  (Richardson)  Upton,  died  at  Lyndeborough,  Feb.  4,  1835.  He 
lived  a  short  distance  west  of  South  Lyndeborough  village,  in  a  house 
built  for  the  use  of  the  one  that  tended  the  grist  mill  there.  Elijah 
was  the  miller  for  some  years.  Children  born  at  Lyndeborough  : — 

1.  ALICE,  b.  Jan.  24,  1814,  d.  Nov.  18,  1847. 

2.  ELIJAH,  b.  May  29,  1816,  d.  Nov.  29,  1832. 

3.  JOSEPH,    b.    March    18,    1818,    m.    Eliza   A.    Frost,    d.    at 

Nashua,  March  24,  1885. 

4.  MARTHA  J.,  b.  Jan.  14,  1821,  m.  Rufus  Chamberlain.     (See 

Chamberlain  gen.) 

5.  NANCY  A.,  b.  May  21,  1823,  d.  Oct.  i,  1832. 

6.  MARY  J.,  b.  Sept.  27,  1826,  d.  Aug.  3,  1830. 

7.  ALBERT,  b.  Dec.  21,  1828,  d.  July  25,  1829. 

8.  BENJAMIN  F.,  b.  Sept.  27,  1830,  m.  Addie  Stewart  of  Green- 

field, Dec.  25,  1857. 

RUSSELL  UPTON,  son  of  Paul  and  Jerusha  (Richardson)  Upton, 
married  first,  Feb.  3,  1814,  *  Susan  Dutton  of  Lyndeborough,  and  second, 
Lydia,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Chloe  (Abbott)  Gray  of  Wilton.  She 
was  born  March  5,  1795.  They  were  married  Feb.  5,  1822.  She  was  a 
sister  of  Dr.  Israel  Herrick's  second  wife.  He  lived  where  Adoniram 
Russell  built  near  Buttrick's  mills.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  three 
children :  Mary  Ann,  Susan  and  William,  and  by  the  second  marriage, 
four  children  :  George,  Russell,  Lydia,  Albert. 

*  She  was  the  daughter  of  William  and  Susanna  (Reed)  Dutton,  born  Oct.  18,  1795 ; 
died  Feb.  25,  1821.  Russell  Upton  died  Sept.  27,  1841. 


872  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

WARRKN. 

EDWARD  K.  WARREN,  son  of  Laban  and  Helen  (Kibby)  Warren, 
born  Jan.  28,  1863 ;  married  July  9,  1892,  Minnie  A.,  daughter  of  Myron 
D.  and  Susan  S.  (Bowen)  Magoon  of  Greenfield.  She  was  born  Jan.  25, 
1873.  Mr.  Warren  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Greenfield  in  1896,  and 
bought  the  farm  of  Willis  C.  Perham,  thence  he  removed  to  the  village 
at  the  center.  Children  :  — 

1.  CORA  M.  b.  Aug.  23,  1893. 

2.  EDWARD  G.,  b.  Aug.  23,  1895. 

3.  HEI^N  S.,  b.  June  i,  1904. 

WATKINS. 

OLIVER  WATKINS,  son  of  Jacob  S.  and  Maria  (Wheelwright)  Wat- 
kins,  born  October,  1823  ;  married  Mrs.  Ix>is  Barrett,  daughter  of  William 
Meserve,  and  widow  of  Moody  Barrett.  She  was  born  April  14,  1822  ; 
died  April  14,  1892.  He  died  March  16,  1891.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough 
from  Boston  about  1860,  and  lived  on  what  is  now  known  as  the  Watkins 
place,  North  Lyndeborough,  where  he  kept  a  summer  boarding  house 
for  many  years.  Child  :  — 

i.  -     ,  b.  July  25,  1864,  m.  Sept.  18,  1882,  Frank  Gardner 

of  Perkinsville,  Vt. 


WEINMAN. 

Thomas  Wellman  came  from  Wales  in  the  early  days  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Colony  and  settled  in  Lynnfield.  Jacob,  his  descendant  of  the 
fourth  generation,  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  come  to  Salein-Canada. 
Rev.  Frank  G.  Clark  says  in  his  Historical  Address,  that  "he  bought  a 
proprietor's  right  April  16,  1742,  and  occupied  home  lot  No.  57,  where 
David  D.  Clark  afterward  lived.  The  first  house  was  in  the  field  north 
of  the  present  buildings.  The  house  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Carson  is 
probably  one  of  the  oldest  in  town."  From  the  foregoing  it  will  be 
seen  that  Mr.  Wellman  was  one  of  the  band  of  hardy  pioneers,  the  first 
settlers  of  Salem-Canada.  He  was  the  son  of  Abraham  and  Elizabeth 
(Taylor)  Wellman,  born  April  24,  1720,  at  L,ynnfield,  Mass.  He  married 
Jane  Johnson,  probably  of  Dunstable,  Mass.,  and  it  would  seem  from  the 
records  at  hand  that  he  came  to  Salem-Canada  from  Dunstable.  Owing 
to  the  depredations  of  the  Indians  he  evidently  soon  returned,  for  Jacob, 
Jr.,  his  eldest  son,  was  born  there.  That  he  returned  to  Salem-Canada 
as  soon  as  it  was  safe  to  do  so,  is  evident  from  the  fact  that  his  second 
child,  James,  was  born  in  Salem-Canada.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  army. 
(See  Chap.  VII).  It  is  said  of  him,  "that  he  faithfully  discharged  all 
the  duties  pertaining  to  the  many  offices  which  were  conferred  upon  him 
at  Lyndeborough."  He  died  Sept.  22,  1797,  aged  78  years.  Children  of 
Capt.  Jacob  and  Jane  (Johnson)  Wellman  :  — 

1.  JACOB,  JR.,  -f- 

2.  JAMES,  b.  in  1747,  d.  in  the  army  during  the  Revolution. 


GENEALOGIES  873 

3.  ABRAHAM,  b.  in  1748,  m.  Rebecca  Pearsons.     He  served  in 

the  Continental  Army,  and  lived  some  years  after  the  close 
of  the  war.  He  received  a  pension.  Rem.  to  Maine  about 

1785- 

4.  JOHN,  + 

5.  ANN,  b.  in  1750,  m.  John  Howes. 

6.  ELIZABETH,  b.  in  1751,  m.  Joseph  Robeson. 

JACOB  WELLMAN,  JR.,  son  of  Capt.  Jacob  and  Jane  (Johnson)  Well- 
man  ;  born  May  13,  1746,  in  Dunstable,  Mass.;  married  first,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Dea.  Melchisedek  Boffee  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born 
May  5, 1745  ;  died  Jan.  28, 1793  ;  married  second,  Elizabeth  Moore.  She  was 
born  Aug.  9,  1757;  died  in  Sept.,  1848.  He  died  April  20,  1834.  He  was 
a  soldier  in  the  Continental  Army,  and  in  the  winter  of  1775  marched  to 
Charlestown  and  encamped  at  Winter  Hill,  and  was  wounded  in  the  Bat- 
tle of  Bunker  Hill.  The  next  day  he  was  carried  to  the  hospital  at  Cam- 
bridge and  when  sufficiently  recovered  returned  to  Lyndeborough. 

It  is  related  of  him  that  in  company  with  Thomas  Johnson  he  was  in 
the  woods  one  day  in  search  of  timber  when  they  saw  a  bear  approaching. 
One  of  them  had  an  axe  in  his  hand  and  the  other  a  handspike,  and  they 
held  their  ground,  standing  perfectly  still.  The  bear  came  on  until 
pretty  near  them,  then  stopped  and  began  growling  and  making  other 
hostile  demonstrations,  but  suddenly  hitched  back  a  few  steps  and  fled 
from  their  sight.  Wellman  said  Johnson  was  paler  than  he  was  when 
facing  the  British  at  the  Battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  At  another  time,  in  com- 
pany with  another  man,  hunting  bears,  they  had  driven  one  into  its  den, 
in  which  there  were  some  cubs.  Wellman  agreed  to  crawl  into  the 
cave,  having  first  fastened  a  rope  to  his  ankles  and  instructed  his  com- 
panion to  pull  him  out  if  he  jerked  the  rope.  With  his  musket  in  his 
hand  he  cautiously  crawled  into  the  cave  until  he  could  see  the  bear's  eyes 
glisten,  then  took  aim  and  fired  and  lost  no  time  in  backing  out.  They 
then  built  a  fire  to  smoke  out  the  cubs.  But  after  awhile  they  found  the 
old  bear  dead,  and  the  cubs,  two  in  number,  suffocated.  To  crawl  into  a 
den  where  there  was  a  bear  guarding  her  cubs  would  seem  to  require 
nerve  of  the  highest  kind.  Children  by  first  wife :  — 

1.  HANNAH,  b.  Sept.   13,  1767,  m.  David  Jennings  of  L,ynde- 

borough.     They  had  two  or  three  sons  and  a  daughter. 

2.  JACOB,  4- 

3.  DAVID,  b.  Nov.  28,   1772,  m.   Sarah  Faxon.     Was  county 

sheriff  and  d.  in  Washington,  N.  H. 

4.  SAMUEL,  b.  Nov.  20,  1773,  d.  March,   1835.     Was  a  soldier 

in  the  army  five  years,  and  went  with  the  troops  to  the 
banks  of  the  Mississippi  River  in  1792,  when  our  territories 
were  threatened  by  French  and  Spanish.  He  was  a  man 
of  strict  integrity  of  character. 

5.  THOMAS,    b.   Feb.    4,    1777,    m.    L/ydia    Knowlton,   rem.    to 

Maine.    They  had  thirteen  children. 


874  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

6.  MARY,  b.  Jan.  2,  1779,  m.  1802,  Jonathan  Bosworth  of  Hart- 

ford, Me.     She  d.  Dec.  1825. 

7.  BETSEY,  b.  Feb.   17,   1781,  m.  Jan.  30,   1803,  Stephen  Bos- 

worth  of  Buckfield,  Me.     She  d.  July,  1816. 

8.  JAMES,  b.  Feb.  25,   1783,  m.  Jan.   26,   1806,  Sarah  Francis. 

She  was  b.  Oct.  15,  1786.     He  rein,  to  Farmington,  Me., 
in  1805. 

9.  EBENEZER    BRYANT,    b.   June   7,    1785,    m.    1810,    Carrie 

Parker,  rein,  to  Maine. 

10.  JOHN,  -f- 

Children  by  second  wife :  — 

11.  WILLIAM  M.,  b.  Dec.  20,  1795,  d.  Feb.  19,  1812. 

12.  DANIEL,  b.  Jan.  13,  1798,  d.  March  29,  1798. 

JACOB  WEIvL/MAN,  son  of  Jacob,  Jr.,  and  Hannah  (Boffee)  Wellman  ; 
born  Feb.  17,  1771 ;  married  Sarah  Orne.  She  died  April  4,  1866.  He 
died  Oct.,  1817.  Children  :  — 

1.  THOMAS,  b.  1794,  in.  Irene  Miner. 

2.  SARAH,  m.  Francis  Cram. 

3.  HANNAH,  m.  Alden  Casey. 

4.  JACOB,  m.  Sophie  Miner. 

JOHN  WELIvMAN,  son  of  Jacob  Jr.,  and  Hannah  (Boffee)  Wellman ; 
born  July  18,  1790;  married  Betsey  Moore.  She  was  born  Dec.  25,  1795. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Calvin ist  Baptist  Church  for  fifty  years,  and  was 
generally  known  as  "John  the  Baptist."  He  died  in  1855.  Children  :  — 

1.  WILLIAM,  b.  Nov.  25,  1819,  d.  1852,  committed  suicide. 

2.  JESSE  P.,  b.  July  4,  1821,  was  supposed  to  have  been  killed 

in  a  railroad  accident  at  Norwalk,  Conn. 

3.  NANCY  E.,  b.  Feb.  24,  1823,  m.  Daniel  Sargent  of  Milford. 

4.  JOHN,  b.  March  15,  1825. 

5.  HANNAH  J.,  b.  June  n,  1827,  d.  Jan.  21,  1838. 

6.  ISRAEL  W.,  b.  March  i,  1829,  rem.  to  Stoddard. 

7.  KEZIAH,  b.  May  5,  1831,  m.  Hiram  Story,  rem.  to  Antrim, 

1889. 

8.  JAMES  M.,  b.  Sept.  30,   1835.     Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 

War.     (See  Chap.  X.) 

9.  MARY  J.,  b.  Jan.  17,  1839. 

JOHN  WEI/LMAN,  son  of  Capt.  Jacob  and  Jane  (Johnson)  Wellman ; 
born  1758;  married  Ann  Thissell.  He  died  June  30,  1826;  she  died 
March  23,  1851,  aged  eighty  years.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Continental 
Army.  Children :  — 

i.  POLLY,  b.  Jan.  2,  1779,  d.  Sept.  n,  1863. 


GENEALOGIES  875 

2.  JOHN,  2ND,  d.  Dec.  21,  1875.  He  lived  on  the  same  farm 
and  in  the  same  house  in  which  he  and  his  father  were 
born.  He  was  more  commonly  known  as  "Spud"  Well- 
man. 

WILDER. 

ERWIN  D.  WILDER,  son  of  Cyrus  and  Nancy  (Erwin)  Wilder,  born 
at  New  Boston,  Oct.  14,  1828;  married  Jan.  n,  1854,  Sarah  E.,  daughter 
of  Peter  and  Elizabeth  (Messer)  Kendall  of  Dunstable,  Mass.  She  was 
born  Oct.  10,  1832.  He  came  to  I/yndeborough  from  Nashua  in  1865, 
and  in  1867  settled  on  the  Daniel  Boardman  place,  North  Lyndeborough, 
purchasing  it  of  his  brother,  Alfred.  He  is  a  carpenter  and  builder,  and 
also  a  farmer.  He  was  selectman  in  1876,  and  is  a  man  well  liked  in  the 
community.  Children,  the  three  older  born  at  Nashua  :  — 

1.  ALFRED  E.,  b.  Feb.  25,  1855,  m.  March  12,  1879,  Charlotte 

A.,  dau.  of  John  and  Mary  (Crombie)  Andrews  of  New 
Boston.  She  was  b.  Nov.  5,  1848.  He  d.  Dec.  19,  1903. 
Child  :  Mary  E.,  b.  June  23,  1883. 

2.  CHARGES  F.,  b.  Jan.   n,   1857,  m.  June  9,  1879,  Mary  F. 

Whittier  of  Newton,  N.  H.  She  was  b.  March  4,  1861. 
Children:  Howard  E.,  b.  April  3,  1885;  Mabel  E.,  b. 
Nov.  27,  1888  ;  Wallace  W.  Res.  at  Amesbury,  Mass. 

3.  ARTHUR  W.,  b.  Oct.  2,   1860,  m.  June  2,   1888,  Clara  E. 

Peaslee   of    Roxbury,  Mass.     She  was   b.   June   2,  1866. 

Children  :  Erwin  S.,  b.  March  21,  1889  ;  Esther  W.  Res. 
at  Newton, ^N.  H. 

4.  WILLIAM  C.,  b.  at  Lyndeborough,  Sept.   13,  1868,  m.  Sept. 

21,  1892,  Adria  A.,  dau.  of  Emery  and  Ella  (Russell) 
Holt,  b.  Jan.  8,  1873.  Children  :  Bertha  E.,  b.  Oct.  26, 
1900:  Gladys  Elizabeth,  b.  at  New  Boston,  Nov.  21, 
1901  ;  Carl  Emery,  b.  Aug.  27,  1903 ;  Ruth  Gertrude,  b. 
at  I/yndeborough,  June  5,  1905. 

ALFRED  WILDER,  a  brother  of  Erwin  D.,  born  in  1826;  came  to 
Lyndeborough  from  Nashua  and  lived  for  a  few  years  on  the  Boardman 
place.  He  married  Naomi  McConnihee  of  Mont  Vernon.  He  removed 
to  Greenville  and  later  to  Milford,  where  he  died  December,  1898.  Of 
his  four  children  one,  George,  was  born  in  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  25,  1865. 

WILKERSON. 

EDWIN  C.  WILKERSON,  son  of  Herbert  and  Flora  (Putnam) 
Wilkerson,  born  Aug.  20,  1873,  ifl  Wilton ;  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of 
Hugh  and  Margaret  (Archie)  Morrison  of  Yorkshire,  England,  Nov.  20, 
1895.  She  was  born  Aug.  13,  1871.  Children  born  in  Lyndeborough  :  — 

i.  HILDA  M.,  b.  July  7,  1897. 


876  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

2.  GERTRUDE,  b.  Feb.  2,  1899. 

3.  BERTRAM  C.,  b.  March  24,  1903. 

WIUJAMS. 

THOMAS  A.  WILLIAMS,  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Brooks)  Williams, 
born  at  Manchester,  England,  Nov.  5,  1857;  married  Nov.  10,  1881, 
Hattie  E.,  daughter  of  Phineas  Collier  of  Boston,  Mass.  She  was  born 
Nov.  20,  1861.  He  lived  at  the  Bixby  place  and  was  postmaster  at  the 
centre  from  1889  until  the  office  was  discontinued  in  1901.  He  was  tax 
collector  in  1900-1901.  Resides  in  Boston.  Child  :  — 

i.  HERBERT  C.,b.  Jan.  27,  1887. 

JAMES  H.  WILLIAMS,  son  of  James  and  Mary  (Brooks)  Williams, 
born  at  Manchester,  England;  married  first,  Lizzie  J.  Leach  of  Waltham, 
Mass ;  married  second,  Hattie  E.  Hapgood  of  Standish,  Me.  Children  : — 

1.  ANNIE  E.,  b.  Jan.  7,  1876,  at  Peru,  Me. 

2.  THOMAS  A.,  b.  July  3,  1881,  at  Hartford,  Me. 

WILSON. 

ALBRO  M.  WILSON,  son  of  Griffin  and  Elizabeth  (Stevens)  Wilson, 
born  in  Nelson,  April  i,  1846;  married  July  18,  1874,  Rosa  M.,  daughter 
of  Edward  and  Betsey  (Way)  Sulham.  She  was  born  March  19,  1857. 
Was  in  the  provision  business  at  South  Lyndeborough  for  a  while. 
Removed  to  Milford  in  1886,  where  he  died  April  14,  1902.  Children,  all 
born  in  Lyndeborough  but  the  youngest :  — 

1.  ALBERT  G.,  b.  Dec.  19,  1875.     Res.  in  Milford. 

2.  ELMER  M.,  b.   April  9,    1877,  m.  March  3,   1900,   Georgia 

F.  H.,  dau.  of   Stephen  and  Maria   (Martin)    Blanchard. 
Res.  in  Milford. 

3.  GEORGE  S.,  b.  July  19,  1883. 

4.  HAROLD  L/.,  b.  in  Milford,  Sept.   19,  1895. 

WIIySON. 

MILLARD  WILSON,  son  of  David  and  Lois  (Messer)  Wilson,  born 
Nov.  27,  1851  ;  married  Sept.  5,  1880,  Ida  L.,  daughter  of  David  and 
Lenora  (Kendall)  Morse  of  Alexandria,  N.  H.  She  was  born  Oct.  23, 
1859.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough  from  Greenfield  in  1898,  and  settled  on 
the  Manning  place,  north  of  the  mountain.  Children  :  — 

1.  WILLIAM  P.,  b.  April  6,  1881. 

2.  DAVID  E.,  b.  June  14,  1883. 

WINN. 

GEORGE  E.  WINN,  son  of  Erwin  and  Jane  (Pollard)  Winn,  born 
April  18,  1844,  in  Bennington  ;  married  first,  Feb.  22,  1867,  C.  S.  Smith, 
daughter  of  Louis  and  Cynthia  Smith.  She  was  born  June,  1849  ;  married 
second,  Nov.  14,  1892,  Camelia  W.,  daughter  of  Freeman  and  Ruth 


GENEALOGIES  877 

(Jackman)  Elkins  and  widow  of  David  S.  Draper.  She  was  born  Sept. 
15,  1845.  He  was  a  soldier  during  the  Civil  War.  (See  Chap.  X.)  Chil- 
dren by  first  wife,  all  born  in  Wilton  :  — 

j.  GEORGE  A.,  b.  Feb.  4,  1868. 

2.  MARY  E.,  b.  March,  1870. 

3.  IDA  J.,  b.  Aug.  13,  1872. 

4.  FRANK  A.,   b.   Nov.  23,   1879,  m.  Jan.    i,    1903,  Clara  B., 

dau.  of  Daniel  A.  and  May  (Hoyt)  Colby  of  Francestown. 

WHEELER. 

Nathan  Wheeler  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Temple.  He  married 
Lydia  Adams  of  Concord,  Mass.,  and  it  was  from  that  town  they  came  to 
Temple.  They  had  three  children.  Nathan  and  Josiah  came  to  Lynde- 
borough.  The  other  child  was  Lydia,  born  Aug.  19,  1783.  Nathan  re- 
turned to  Temple  about  1820. 

NATHAN  WHEELER,  son  of  Nathan  and  Lydia  (Adams)  Wheeler; 

born  at  Temple,   Oct.  20,   1781 ;    married  Rachel .      Children,  born 

in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  NATHAN  C.,  b.  May  9,  1805. 

2.  EPHRAIM  A.,  b.  March  31,  1809. 

3.  JONATHAN,  d.  April  16,  1809. 

4.  LUTHER,  b.  Feb.  21,  1812. 

5.  THOMAS,  b.  March  23,  1814. 

JOSIAH  WHEELER,  son  of  Nathan  and  Lydia  (Adams)  Wheeler; 
born  in  Temple,  N.  H.,  May  n,  1786;  died  Oct.  4,  1874;  married  first, 
Dolly  Shattuck  of  Temple,  N.  H.,  Dec.  31,  1811.  She  was  born  Sept.  i, 
1788;  died  Aug.  14,  1845;  married  second,  Mrs.  Dorothy  (Whiting) 
Killan  of  Thetford,  Vt.,  April  29,  1846.  She  was  born  March  14,  1795 ; 
died  Dec.  4,  1870.  He  built  the  house  at  the  Centre  known  as  the 
Wheeler  house  in  1813,  and  lived  there  until  his  death.  He  was  a  car- 
penter by  trade  and  his  work  as  a  craftsman  was  done  before  the  days  of 
planing  machines  and  other  labor  saving  devices.  He  was  thoroughly 
honest  and  upright  in  all  his  dealings,  a  sincere  and  earnest  Christian 
and  a  constant  attendant  at  church  service.  He  had  a  quaint  and  dry 
humor,  and  was  quiet  and  retiring  in  disposition.  The  boys  all  liked 
"Uncle  Si,"  and  he  was  never  too  busy  to  attend  to  their  wants.  The 
Franklin  Library  was  for  many  years  in  his  house  under  the  care  of  his 
wife,  and  many  of  the  books  were  of  her  selection.  He  was  town  treas- 
urer of  Lyndeborough  for  thirty-one  consecutive  years.  Children  by 
first  wife,  born  in  Lyndeborough:  — 

1.  DOLLY,  b.  Dec.  14,  1814,  m.  Henry  I.  Kimball  of  Springfield, 

Vt.,  March  3,  1840.     He  was  b.  April  n,  1813,  d.  Oct.  25, 
1862.     Children  :  L,ydia  Annah,  Alice  Wheeler,  Janie. 

2.  L,YDIA,  b.  June  8,  1818,  m.  Thomas  P.  Rand  of  Francestown. 

(See  Rand  gen.) 


HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

3.  JOSIAH  KIMBALL,  b.  July  15,  1822,  m.  first,  Abby  A.  Marsh 
of  Hudson,  Nov.  22,  1849.  She  was  b.  April  23,  1827,0!. 
June  12,  1865;  m.  second,  Abbie  A.  Wilson  of  New  Ip- 
swich, Dec.  28,  1865.  She  was  b.  July  28,  1836.  Mr. 
Wheeler  removed  to  Hudson,  where  he  has  since  lived.  He 
represented  that  town  in  the  legislature  in  1871.  Was  town 
clerk  and  treasurer  in  1869,  1870,  1871,  and  1872,  select- 
man five  years,  and  was  moderator  for  many  years,  which 
record  shows  in  what  esteem  the  citizens  of  that  town  hold 
him.  He  is  a  farmer  and  a  successful  business  man.  They 
have  one  adopted  daughter. 

WHEELER. 

JONAS  WHEELER  was  born  July  31,  1801 ;  married  May  6,  1822,  Mary 
Hall  of  Brookline.  She  was  born  June  2,  1803  ;  died  Nov.  26, 1862.  Chil- 
dren :  — 

1.  WILLIAM  GLOVER,  b.  July  28,  1829. 

2.  SALATHIEL  L/IDSON,  -|- 

3.  MARY  A.,  b.  March  5,  1833,  m.  C.  Henry  Holt.     (See  Holt 

gen.) 

4.  MARTHA  KARR,    b.  Nov.  23,   1834,  m.   Otis   Chamberlain. 

(See  Chamberlain  gen.) 

5.  DUSTIN  H.,  b.  April  13,  1837,  m.  first,  Mrs.  Lucinda  Hall, 

m.  second,  Mrs.  Dundy. 

6.  MARCUS  DE  H.,  b.  Dec.  13,  1839. 

7.  SAMANTHA    A.,    b.   Sept.    29,    1841,   m.   Hiram  Bailey,   of 

Peterborough,  res.  in  Burlington,  Vt. 

SALATHIEL  L.  WHEELER,  son  of  Jonas  and  Mary  (Hall)  Wheeler  ; 
born  Feb.  6,  1831 ;  married  Jan.  2,  1855,  Mary  J.  Carpenter  of  Vermont. 
He  died  May  10,  1890.  Children  :  — 

1.  MARY  A.,  m.  Charles  O.  Clement.     (See  Clement  gen.) 

2.  CHARLES  L,.,  b.  Nov.  5,   1866,  m.  Catharine  Watts  of  Eng- 

land.    Children  :  Florence,  Ethel.     Res.  in  Wilton. 

3.  MINNIE,  b.  June  2,  1874,  d.  Sept.  21,  1874. 

4.  MINNIE    M.,    b.    Oct.    23,    1875     m.    George    Blanchard   < 

Greenfield,  res.  in  Greenfield. 

WHITING. 

JOSEPH  WHITING  was  born  in  1727.  He  married  when  he  was  about 
thirty  years  of  age,  Abigail  Chamberlain  of  Dunstable,  Mass.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Thomas  Chamberlain,  who  married  a  sister  of  Col.  Joseph 
Blanchard  of  Dunstable.  Joseph  Whiting  came  to  Lyndeborongh  in  the 
spring  of  1793  and  settled  on  what  has  since  been  known  as  the  Whiting 


GENEALOGIES  879 

place,  in  the  north  part  of  the  town.  The  buildings  have  been  torn  down, 
but  the  site  is  a  little  way  to  the  west  of  the  No.  8  schoolhouse.  He  died 
in  Merrimac,  Feb.,  1807.  He  had  seven  sons  and  three  daughters.  One 
of  these  sons,  Oliver,  remained  in  Lyndeborough. 

OLIVER  WHITING,  son  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  (Chamberlain)  Whit. 
ing;  born  Jan.  29,  1769;  married  1793  Hannah  Marshall  of  Billerica, 
Mass.  She  died  Oct..  1843.  He  died  July  15,  1815. 

The  Whiting  family  were  prominent  in  town  and  social  affairs,  and  at 
the  time  they  were  living  in  Lyndeborough  the  section  of  the  town 
northwest  of  the  mountain  was  the  most  prosperous  and  its  citizens  the 
most  influential  of  any.  Now  it  is  grown  over  with  bushes,  and  nothing 
but  cellar  holes  mark  the  place  where  once  were  well  cultivated  farms 
and  substantial  dwellings,  where  were  raised  large  families  of  children. 
Not  much  is  known  of  the  older  families  of  this  section.  They  are  ex- 
tinct in  this  town.  Children  :  — 

1.  HANNAH,  b.  Oct.  6,  1793,  m.  Jan.  29,  1824,  Enoch  Ordway 

of  Lyndeborough.  They  removed  to  Jasper.  N.  Y.,  the 
next  spring.  He  was  very  active  in  church  work  and 
started  the  first  Sunday  School  in  Jasper.  It  was  held  in 
his  house  for  some  time.  He  was  drowned  while  going 
down  the  Canister  River  with  a  raft  of  logs  May  14,  1851. 
She  d.  March  14,  1851. 

2.  ALICE,  b.  May  29,  1796,  m.  Nov.  24,  1825,   Samuel  Dennis 

of  Jasper,  N.  Y.,  formerly  of  Hancock,  N.  H.  She  d. 
Sept.  15,  1856. 

3.  OLIVER,  + 

4.  OLIVE,  b.  Jan.  24,  1800,  m.  Jan.  24,  1822,  Daniel  Boardman 

of  Lyndeborough.  After  the  death  of  Mr.  Boardman,  she 
m.  Samuel  Dennis  of  Jasper,  N.  Y.  She  d.  Sept.  16,  1860. 

5.  THOMAS,  b.  April  30,  1802,  m.  Oct.  16,  1828,  Sarah  Cram  of 

Lyndeborough.  She  d.  June  19,  1889.  He  d.  Oct.  31, 
1878.  He  traveled  the  entire  distance  from  Lyndeborough 
to  Jasper,  N.  Y.,  on  foot  three  times.  He  went  to  Jasper 
and  bought  a  farm,  cleared  some  land,  built  a  house,  re- 
turned to  Lyndeborough,  married,  and  returned  again  to 
Jasper.  He  became  very  influential  in  church  and  town 
affairs,  and  was  ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church  for 
many  years. 

6.  JONATHAN,  b.  May  8,   1807,   m.    1832,    Lavisa  Wilkins  of 

Francestown.  He  d.  Dec.  21,  1868.  He  was  much  inter- 
ested in  temperance  reform  and  became  a  very  successful 
farmer.  He  removed  to  Jasper  soon  after  his  marriage. 

7.  ANSTIS,  b.  Aug.  30,  1809,  d.  1831. 


880  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

8.  CHARLES,  b.  July  25,  1813,  m.  Oct.  26,  1843,  Sarah  M. 
Wyman.  He  d.  May  5,  1855.  He  graduated  from  Dart- 
mouth College  in  1839  and  became  a  Congregationalist 
minister. 

DBA.  OLIVER  WHITING,  son  of  Oliver  and  Hannah  (Marshall) 
Whiting,  born  April  3,  1798  ;  married  Huldah,  daughter  of  Ithemer  and 
Huldah  (Sharp)  Woodward,  April  19,  1827.  She  was  born  Aug.  2,  1795; 
died  Jan.  26,  1885.  He  died  Oct.  10,  1886.  He  remained  on  the  old 
Whiting  homestead  until  1845,  when  he  removed  to  Manchester.  He 
went  to  Jasper,  N.  Y.,  in  1854.  He  was  thoroughly  identified  with  the 
life  of  the  church  and  town.  Was  deacon  of  the  Congregational  Church 
and  selectman  a  number  of  years.  Children,  all  born  in  Lynde- 
borough :  — 

1.  HULDAH  J.,  b.    May   3,    1829,  m.    May,   1861,   J.    Perkins 

Towns.     Res.  in  Methuen,  Mass. 

2.  OLIVER  LYNDON,  b.  Nov.    23,   1830.     Went  to   California 

when  19  years  old.  He  has  not  been  heard  from  for  many 
years.  Supposed  to  be  dead. 

3.  CHARLES  MILTON,   b.    July  18,    1833,   m.   twice.      Served 

four  years  in  the  army  during  the  Civil  War,  d.  July  or 
August,  1901. 

4.  JOSEPH,  b.  Jan.  30,  1835,  m.  I^ucy  E.  Jackson  of  Norwalk, 

O.  He  graduated  from  L,ima  College,  N.  Y.,  in  1866,  and 
from  the  Auburn  Theological  school  in  1873.  He  has 
been  a  missionary  in  China  for  30  years.  In  1900,  during 
the  Boxer  outbreak,  he  had  to  leave  his  home  and  go  to  the 
Methodist  Mission,  and  when  that  became  unsafe  he  went 
to  the  British  Legation  and  was  there  all  through  the 
Seige  of  ^ekin.  He  came  to  the  United  States  and  re- 
mained a  year,  then  returned  to  Pekin,  where  he  now  is. 

5.  ANSTIS  M.,  b.  May  16,  1838,  m.  July  26,  1861,  J.  Susanna 

Sargent  of  Jasper,  N.  Y.,  d.  Dec.  6,  1872. 

6.  WILLIAM  H.,    b.    Jan.    3,    1842,    m.    Carrie    Andrews    of 

Rochester,  N.  Y.     Is  a  lawyer  in  Rochester. 

WHITMARSH. 

CHARLES  WHITMARSH  was  born  in  Braintree,  Mass.,  June  12, 
1763  ;  married  Anna  Faxon,  Nov.  27,  1782.  She  died  July  9,  1846.  He 
died  May  14,  1821.  He  was  a  blacksmith  and  had  a  shop  on  top  of  the 
hill  west  of  E.  D.  Wilders's  and  a  house  opposite.  He  afterward  moved 
to  where  the  house  owned  by  D.  E.  Proctor  stands.  But  little  can  be 
learned  about  him.  Children  :  — 

1.  ANNA,  b.  May  7,  1785. 

2.  SALLY,  b.  Nov.  12,  1787. 


GENEALOGIES  881 

3.  BETSEY,  b.  May  17,  1789. 

4.  CHARLES,  + 

5.  THOMAS,  b.  June  8,  1794,  d.  Nov.  13,  1796. 

6.  POLLY,  b.  July  23,  1796,  d.  Feb.  26,  1820. 

7.  MARGERY,  b.  July  24,  1798. 

8.  NABBY,  b.  Oct.  10,  1800. 

9.  HANNAH,  b.  July  22,  1803,  d.  Nov.  4,  1818. 

10.  WILLIAM  F.,  b.  Dec.  6,  1805. 

CHARLES  WHITMARSH,  son  of  Charles  and  Anna  (Faxon)  Whit- 
marsh,  born  Feb.  23,  1792  ;  married  Hannah  Epps,  Dec.  i,  1814.  She 
was  born  April  15,  1796;  died  May  30,  1867.  He  died  Sept.  5,  1838. 
Children :  Mary  Ann,  Mary  Ann,  Charles  E.,  Francis  P.,  Joseph  J., 
Harriet,  Lewis,  George  L.,  William  F.  Most  of  the  descendants  of  this 
branch  of  the  Whitmarsh  family  reside  in  Denmark,  Iowa,  and  in  South 
Dakota. 

WHITNEY. 

MARTIN  WHITNEY,  born  in  Sherburn,  Vt.,  July  18,  1838 ;  married 
Nancy  E.,  daughter  of  Edgar  and  Miranda  (Dutton)  Rand,  March  10, 
1859.  She  was  born  Jan.  6,  1834.  He  lived  on  the  old  town  farm,  which 
he  bought  soon  after  it  was  sold  by  the  town,  and  he  kept  the  store  at 
the  centre  for  a  few  years,  during  which  time  he  was  postmaster.  He 
removed  from  town  about  1880  and  resides  at  Hillsboro.  Children,  all 
but  Charles  M.,  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  EDGAR  R.,  b.  Jan.    19,   1861,  m.   Dec.   5,   1885,  Emma  P. 

Harvey.     Children  :  Frank  A.,  Helen  E.,  John  E.,  Harry 
L,.     Res.  in  Antrim. 

2.  CHARLES  M.,  b.  in  Mont  Vernon,  May  2,  1863,  d.  Aug.  n, 

1865. 

3.  ARTHUR  M.,  b.  Jan.  28,  1866,  m.  July  12,  1890,  Mabel  M. 

Cram.     Child  :  Vona.     Res.  in  Deering. 

4.  MIRANDA  L.  A.,  b.  Oct.  20,  1873,  m.  Feb.  5,  1891,  John 

M.  Davis.     Res.  in  Hillsboro,  N.  H. 

WHITTEMORE. 

The  origin  of  the  name  Whittemore  is  found  by  tracing  the  genealogy 
of  Thomas,  the  first  American  ancestor,  back  twelve  generations  to  one 
John,  upon  whom  Henry  III.  of  England,  about  A.  D.  1230,  bestowed  a 
title  for  heroism  in  battle  and  at  the  same  time  gave  him  a  large  tract  of 
land  called  Whyte-mere,  the  meaning  of  which  is  white  meadow  or 
white  plain.  From  that  time  John  was  known  as  John  Lord  de  (of) 
Whytemere.  After  four  generations  the  de  was  dropped  and  Whytemere 
with  variations  in  spelling  became  the  surname  of  John's  descendants. 

Thomas  Whittemore,  the  common  American  ancestor  of  the  Whitte- 
more family,  came  to  this  country  from  Hitchin,  County  of  Hertford, 


882  HIS  TOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

England,  sometime  between  the  years  1639  and  1645.  He  settled  in  that 
part  of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  which  is  now  embraced  within  the  limits  of 
the  city  of  Everett,  Mass. 

Daniel  Whittemore,  the  first  of  the  family  to  come  to  Lyndeborough, 
was  of  the  fourth  generation  from  Thomas,  as  follows :  Thomas,  John, 
Daniel,  Daniel.  It  is  claimed  that  he  made  the  first  permanent  clearing 
north  of  the  mountain  ;  but  John  Stephenson  certainly  started  to  make 
a  "beginning"  there  previous  to  the  date  of  Daniel's  coming,  but  as 
related  in  another  place  he  removed  to  the  south  of  the  mountain. 

The  log  house  that  Daniel  Whittemore  built  was  situated  in  the  field 
about  50  rods  northwest  of  the  present  buildings.  It  is  probable  that  he 
did  not  occupy  it  long,  for  he  soon  built  a  frame  house  about  25  rods 
southeast  of  the  present  buildings.  It  was  in  this  latter  that  Jona- 
than lived  and  died.  It  was  torn  down  and  some  of  the  material  was  used 
in  building  the  present  shed.  Samuel,  another  son  of  Daniel,  built  a 
house  on  the  hill  directly  east  of  the  farm  buildings  now  in  use.  Here 
he  lived  for  several  years.  Aaron,  grandfather  of  Daniel  B.,  built  on  the 
present  location. 

DANIEI/  WHITTEMORE,  born  Jan.  16,  1717;  married  Sept.  10, 
1739,  Eleanor  Osborne.  He  died  at  Lyndeborough,  March  7,  1776.  He 
was  the  earliest  settler  in  that  part  of  the  town  which  lies  north  of  the 
mountain.  He  took  a  deed  of  a  lot  of  land  there,  April  28,  1770,  and 
made  his  beginning  that  same  year.  He  came  from  Danvers,  Mass.  A 
part  of  that  lot  of  land  is  still  occupied  by  his  descendant,  Daniel  B. 
Whittemore.  While  building  his  log  .house  he  used  to  go  over  the  moun- 
tain to  spend  the  night  at  the  house  of  Dea.  David  Badger,  then  the 
nearest  neighbor  to  him.  His  way  to  and  from  the  house  was  only  a  foot 
path  and  his  guide  boards  were  blazed  trees.  His  children  were  probably 
all  born  at  Danvers,  Mass.;  the  four  older  never  lived  in  I/yndeborough. 
Children  :  — 

1.  DANIEL,  b.  Jan.  19,  1742,  d.  young. 

2.  JOSEPH,  b.  Dec.  19,  1743. 

3.  CLARK,  b.  Aug.  n,  1746,  d.  in  infancy. 

4.  JOHN,  b.  Nov.  14,  1748. 

5.  SAMUEL,  b.   Nov.  8,  1750,  m.    Dec.  5,  1774,  Jenny  Searles. 

He  rem.  to  Concord  between  1790  and  1795.     He  d.  May, 
1821. 

6.  ELEANOR,  b.  March  12,  1751,  m.  John  Hutchinson.     She  d. 

May  19,  1782. 

7.  JONATHAN,  -j- 

8.  AARON,  -)- 

9.  MARY,  b.  March  12,  1757,  m.  Jan.  9,  1799,  Simon  I^ow. 

10.  CLARK,  b.  Oct.  17,  1758. 

11.  DANIEL,  b.  Sept.  28,  1761. 

12.  HANNAH,  b.  Aug.  6,  1764,  m.  1785,  Amos  Stoning. 

JONATHAN  WHITTEMORE,  son   of  Daniel  and  Eleanor  (Osborne) 


GENEALOGIES  883 

Whittemore,  born  Feb.  12,  1753  ;  married  Sept.  25, 1777,  Elizabeth  Down- 
ing.    She  died  April  i,  1834.     He  died  March  16,  1789.     Children:  — 

1.  SUSANNA,  b.    Aug.    3,    1778,  m.   1798,   Jonathan   Kimball. 

She  d.  July  4,  1814. 

2.  CLARK,  -(- 

3.  *  JAMES,  b.  July  4,  1787,  m.  I^ydia  Carter.     Their  children 

were  James,  b.  April  26,  1815  ;  Hannah,  Charles  A.,  Mary 
A. 

CLARK  WHITTEMORE,  son  of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Downing) 
Whittemore,  born  Aug.  21,  1782 ;  married  Sept.  10,  1810,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Amos  and  Hannah  (Whittemore)  Stoning.  He  died  in 
Lyndeborough,  March  25,  1826.  Children  :  — 

1.  HANNAH,  b.  Aug.  8,  1811,  m.  May  19,  1841,  Clark  Kimball. 

Rem.  to  Pennsylvania. 

2.  ELIZA  D.,    b.    Feb.    27,    1813,    m.    Oct.  22,   1831,  Alanson 

Burnham. 

3.  CLARK,  b.  April  24,  1815,  d.  July,  j8i7. 

4.  AMOS  S.,  b.  Aug.  6,  1818,  m.  first,  July  n,  1847,  Caroline 

Griffin  of  Francestown.  Shed.  June  7,  1853;  m.  second, 
Oct.  21,  1855,  Eliza  J.  Moore  of  Francestown.  He  d.  Feb. 
8,  1886. 

5.  JONATHAN,  b.  Feb.  16,  1824,  m.  Annie  A.   Conchlin,  Sept. 

X3>  J853.     He  rem.  to  Pennsylvania. 

AARON  WHITTEMORE,  son  of  Daniel  and  Eleanor  (Osborne) 
Whittemore,  born  Feb.  5,  1755 ;  married  Ruth  Downing  in  1786.  She 
died  June,  1834.  He  died  Jan.  i,  1825.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary War  and  was  in  Capt.  Peter  Clark's  company,  Stark's  Brigade, 
at  the  Battle  of  Bennington.  Children  :  — 

1.  THOMAS,  b.  April,  1788,  d.  April,  1797. 

2.  AARON,  -j- 

3.  CALEB,  b.  Jan.  22,  1792,  m.   March  22,  1821,  Sarah  Dodge. 

He  d.  August,  1879.  Child:  Jonathan,  b.  September, 
1822. 

4.  RUTH,  b.  June  8,  1796,  m.  Feb.  29,  1820,  David  Smith.     He 

d.  Oct.  8,  1872.  She  d.  Aug.  14,  1889.  Children:  John 
A.  V.,  b.  July  19,  1823;  Aaron  W.,  b.  Sept.  24,  1829; 
David,  b.  Nov.  29,  1832;  Mary  A.  B.,  b.  Aug.  8,  1836,  d. 
September,  1891. 

5.  and  6.  SARAH   and   WILLIAM    (twins),    b.   Jan.    13,    1800. 

Sarah,  m.  William  Marble.  William  m.  Jan.  21,  1829, 
Nancy  Wilkins.  He  d.  May  25,  1873.  She  d.  Sept.  2, 

*This  family  removed  to  Suncook,  N.  H. 


884  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

1887.  Children:  Anstis  B.,  b.  Jan.  22,  1832  ;  William  W., 
b.  June  5,  1837;  Aaron  F.,  b.  March  i,  1841  ;  Sarah  N., 
b.  Oct.  29,  1845. 

AARON  WHITTEMORE,  son  of  Aaron  and  Ruth  (Downing)  Whitte- 
more,  born  Oct.  2,  1790;  married  April  29,  1817,  Betsey,  daughter  of 
James  and  Betsey  (Hosey)  Weston  of  Francestown.  She  was  born  Sept. 
2,  1795  !  died  March  30,  1858.  He  died  Aug.  14,  1834.  Children  :  — 

1.  DANIEL   BOARDMAN,    -f- 

2.  AARON,  b,  Feb.  22,  1821,  d.  Oct.  4,  1841. 

3.  JAMES,  b.  Jan.  4,  1823,  d.  Jan.  i,  1836. 

4.  WIUJAM  L/EWIS,  + 

5.  HARRIET  NEWELL,  b.  March  12,  1826,  d.  June  17,  1858. 

6.  JOHN  WESTON,  b.  Feb.  23,  1828.     He  had  a  decided  taste 

for  scientific  studies  and  the  ingenuity  for  making  appara- 
tus for  their  illustration.  He  gave  the  first  of  a  number  of 
scientific  lectures  in  1851,  illustrating  the  facts  with  electri- 
cal and  other  machines  of  his  own  construction.  These 
machines  are  still  in  existence.  He  d.  Jan.  8,  1858. 

7.  ELIZA  ANN,  b.  Jan.  24,  1830,  d.  Jan.  23,  1873. 

DANIEL  B.  WHITTEMORE,  son  of  Aaron  and  Betsey  (Weston) 
Whittemore,  born  Sept.  6,  1819;  married  Oct.  31,  1858,  Ann  E.,  daughter 
of  Rodney  C.  and  Nancy  J.  (Barnes)  Boutwell.  She  was  born  May  4, 
1837.  He  lived  several  years  in  Boston  and  in  Danvers,  Mass.,  and 
returned  in  1844  to  the  Whittemore  homestead  farm  at  North  Lyndebor- 
ough.  He  is  one  of  the  few  who  own  farms  their  ancestors  cleared  of 
the  virgin  forest.  He  served  on  the  board  of  selectmen  in  1879  and  1880 
and  represented  the  town  in  the  Legislature  in  1883.  He  has  endeavored 
to  apply  the  principles  of  science  to  his  calling  as  a  farmer  and  is  well 
versed  in  the  chemistry  of  fertilizers  and  stock  foods.  Of  undoubted 
integrity  of  character,  with  a  clean  record,  he  has  the  confidence  and 
good  wishes  of  all  who  know  him.  Children  :  — 

1.  HARRY  .WESTON,  -|- 

2.  DANA  BARNES,  b.  March  9,  1862. 

HARRY  W.  WHITTEMORE,  son  of  Daniel  B.  and  Ann  E.  (Bout- 
well)  Whittemore,  born  Dec.  19,  1859;  married  July  n,  1900,  Mary 
B.,  daughter  of  Edward  B.  and  Esther  (Wyatt)  Eastman  of  Amherst. 
Mass.  She  was  born  Oct.  2,  1872,  and  graduated  at  Smith  College  in 
1894.  He  entered  Tufts  College  in  1882  and  graduated  in  1886.  He  took 
a  post  graduate  course  and  received  the  degree  of  A.M.  in  1889.  He 
made  teaching  his  vocation  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1898,  he  engaged 
in  the  printing  business  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  removing  in  1901  to  Tufts 
College,  where  he  established  The  Tufts  College  Press.  Child  :  — 

i.  RODNEY  EASTMAN,  b.  Sept.  20,  1904. 

WILLIAM  LEWIS  WHITTEMORE,  son  of  Aaron  and  Betsey  (Wes- 


GENEALOGIES  885 

ton)  Whittemore ;  born  at  Francestown,  Aug.  21,  1824.  He  received  his 
early  education  in  the  common  schools  of  Lyndeborough,  and  was  a 
pupil  at  Francestown  Academy  for  several  years.  He  then,  having  deter- 
mined to  make  teaching  his  life  work,  entered  Prof.  William  Russell's 
Normal  Institute,  where  he  remained  about  three  years.  He  then  took 
a  special  course  at  Amherst  College  and  still  later  he  entered  the  scien- 
tific department  of  Harvard  University,  completing  the  two-year  course  in 
1854.  He  began  to  teach  school  in  1844  in  the  little  red  schoolhouse 
where  he  had  been  a  schoolboy  for  a  dozen  years  and  where  his  father 
had  been  a  pupil  forty  years  earlier.  For  the  first  five  years  he  taught  in 
L,yndeborough,  Greenfield  and  New  Boston,  and  the  next  five  in  Wilton 
and  Mont  Vernon,  coming  to  Milford  in  1855,  where  he  remained  the 
principal  of  the  high  school  for  twelve  years.  He  then  opened  a  private 
school  of  his  own.  He  spent  two  or  three  years  in  travel  in  Burope  and 
in  the  United  States,  always  with  a  view  of  studying  the  best  educational 
methods  employed.  In  1876  he  commenced  teaching  in  Boston,  where  he 
remained  twenty  years.  He  is  man  of  scientific  attainments  and  of  note 
in  the  educational  interests  of  his  day.  He  resides  at  Milford. 

WOODS. 

CHARLES  E.  WOODS,  son  of  George  C.  and  Keziah  D.  (Metcalf) 
Woods ;  born  Sept.  7,  1856 ;  married  first,  Sept.  8,  1875,  Emma  A.  Marston 
of  Manchester.  She  died  Aug.  6,  1893 ;  married  second,  March  17,  1897, 
Mrs.  Stella  C.  Avery,  daughter  of  Thomas  i,.  and  Mary  F.  (Fuller)  Geer, 
and  widow  of  Frank  T.  Avery.  She  was  born  June  21,  1853. 

Mr.  Woods  came  to  Lyndeborough  in  1901,  and  bought  the  place  just 
south  of  where  John  H.  Goodrich  lives.  A  son  by  a  former  marriage  of 
Mrs.  Woods,  George  R.  Avery,  born  Feb.  15,  1888,  lives  with  them. 

WOODWARD. 

There  are  two  accounts  of  the  origin  of  the  name  Woodward.  One 
writer  says  the  name  is  a  compound  one,  derived  from  the  words  "wood" 
and  "ward  "  or  woodwarden,  signifying  a  keeper  of  the  forest.  Another 
writer  on  English  genealogy  traces  the  name  to  the  Norman  Du  Boiguarde 
and  thence  to  the  Norse  Vidavarde.  One  Vidavarde  equipped  ten  ships 
for  the  service  of  Rollo,  first  duke  of  Normandy,  and  for  eminent  service 
was  granted  an  estate  in  Normandy.  They  came  to  England  with  Wil- 
liam the  Conqueror.  Nathan  Woodward  was  standard  bearer  for  a  troop 
of  horse  in  His  Majesty's  service  and  was  the  founder  of  the  Standish 
Hall  branch  of  the  family.  The  name  of  this  family  in  the  Anglo-Nor- 
man is  Du  Boiguarde  —  Anglicized  it  is  Woodward. 

Richard  Woodward  in  the  year  1415  at  the  battle  of  Agincourt  so  dis- 
tinguished himself  for  valor  and  skill  as  to  call  forth  the  King's  heartfelt 
thanks  before  the  army  at  Windsor.  The  greyhound  in  the  coat  of  arms 
signifies  alertness,  vigilance  and  fidelity  and  the  ermin  purity  in  the  ad- 
ministration of  justice. 

Some  of  the  family  became  imbued  with  the  Puritan  belief,  and  they 
were  subsequently  required  to  make  oath  that  they  keep  their  teachings 
within  their  own  families,  and  rather  than  submit  to  such  tyranny  and 
being  heavily  fined  for  contumacy  they  resolved  to  emigrate  to  America. 


886  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

The  Woodwards  of  L,yndeborough  are  descendants  of  Richard  Wood- 
ward who  embarked  in  the  ship  Elizabeth,  William  Andrews,  master,  at 
Ipswich,  April  10,  1634.  He  was  accompanied  by  his  wife  Rose,  aged 
fifty,  and  two  sons,  George,  aged  thirteen,  and  John,  aged  eleven.  He 
first  settled  in  Newton,  but  soon  became  one  of  the  earliest  proprietors  of 
Watertown,  Mass.,  owning  300  acres  of  laud,  now  a  part  of  Boston.  He 
died  Feb.  16,  1664 ;  his  wife  died  Oct.  6,  1662.  He  was  made  a  freeman 
Sept.  2,  1635.  He  married  second,  April  18,  1663,  Mrs. Ann  Gates,  widow 
of  Stephen  Gates  of  Cambridge.  She  died  Feb.  5,  1682. 

EPHRAIM  WOODWARD  of  Brooklyn,  Conn.,  was  of  the  fourth  gen- 
eration from  Richard,  being  a  descendant  of  his  son  John.  Ephraim 
was  the  fourth  child  of;  John  and  Hannah  (Hyde)  Woodward,  who  came 
to  Canterbury,  Conn.,  from  Watertown,  Mass.  He  was  born  Jan.  8,  1710. 
He  married  first,  Jan.  14, 1736,  Hannah  Williams  of  Brooklyn,  Conn.  She 
died  and  he  married  second,  Huldah,  daughter  of  John  Cram  of  I/ynde- 
borough  July  22,  1742.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  two  children,  Hannah, 
born  1737,  and  Eleazer,  born  January  8,  1738,  both  born  in  Brooklyn, 
Conn.,  but  settled  in  I/yndeborough.  By  his  second  marriage  he  had  six 
children.  Of  these  Ithemer,  John,  David  and  Hannah  settled  in  Lynde- 
borough.  His  second  wife  died  Aug.  21,  1810.  Children  by  second 
wife :  — 

1.  ABIGAIL,  b.  March  24,  1743. 

2.  ITHEMER,  -f- 

3.  WARD,  + 

4.  JOHN,  + 

5.  DAVID,  b.  1755. 

6.  HANNAH,  b.  Jan.  24,  1757. 

ITHEMER  WOODWARD,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Huldah  (Cram)  Wood- 
ward, born  Jan.  21,  1749;  married  Huldah  Sharp.  She  died  in  Frances- 
towu  July  12,  1823.  He  died  in  Francestown  Jan.  9,  1839.  He  settled  in 
the  extreme  northwest  part  of  the  town,  which  was  afterward  annexed  to 
Francestown.  In  the  History  of  Francestown  is  the  record  of  a  petition 
of  certain  residents  of  I,yndeborough  to  be  annexed  to  Francestown.  The 
petition  is  dated  Jan.  7,  1791,  and  Ithemer  Woodward's  name  is  at  the 
head.  This  petition  was  granted  in  1792,  and  that  section  of  the  town 
became  a  part  of  Francestown.  He  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  his 
name  is  on  the  rolls  of  both  Lyndeborough  and  Francestown.  His  wife 
was  b.  Oct.  13,  1749.  Children  :  — 

i.  ELIPHALET,  b.  Nov.  16,  1774,  m.  March  4,  1802,  Polly  But- 
terfield  of  Francestown,  rem.  to  Hanover,  N.  H. 

2.     DANIEL,    + 

3.  DELIA,  b.  July  9,  1780,  m.  Nov.  17,  1808,  Ephraim  David- 
son of  L,andgrove  Vt.  The  town  record  of  births  contains 
the  following :  Abigail,  dau.  of  Ephraim  Davidson  and 
Delia  his  wife,  b.  April  3,  1815,  d.  Aug.  9,  1815;  Almira, 
dau.  of  ditto,  b.  April  30,  1817,  d.  July  13,  1817  ;  Sarah 


GENEALOGIES  887 

S.,  dau.  of  ditto,  b.  Dec.  28,   1818  ;  Peter,  son  of  ditto,  b. 
Nov.  23,  1823. 

4.  ELIJAH,  -f 

5.  lyUCY,  b.  Sept.  9,  1784,  m.  April  7,  1808,  Ephraim  P.  Wood- 

ward of  Brooklyn,  Conn. 

6.  BENJAMIN,  b.  May  12,   1789,  m.  Betsey  Bixby  of  Frances- 

town.     He  d.  July  21,  1859.     She  d.  July  19,  1862. 

7.  AARON,  b.  Dec.  19,  1793,  d.  Dec.  20,  1866. 

8.  HULDAH,  b.  Aug.  2,  1795,  m;  Oliver  Whiting  of  L/yndebor- 

ough.     (See  Whiting  gen.) 

DANIEL  WOODWARD,  son  of  Ithemer  and  Huldah  (Sharp)  Wood- 
ward; born  Jan.  30,  1777;  married  first,  Lucy  Burnham  of  Essex,  Mass., 
Dec.  29,  1803.  She  died  Aug.  19,  1830.  He  married  second,  May  I,  1848, 
Hannah,  daughter  of  John  and  Judith  (Foster)  Woodward.  She  was  born 
Jan.  20,  1781 ;  died  Nov.  16,  1853.  He  married  third,  Hannah  M.,  daugh- 
ter of  Israel  and  Hannah  (Hardy)  Woodward.  He  died  in  Francestown 
June  25,  1867.  He  bought  a  farm  in  the  northwest  part  of  the  town. 
There  is  said  to  have  been  a  log  house  standing  when  he  bought  it.  In 
1827  he  built  a  brick  house  which  was  later  burned  while  occupied  by 
Sumner  French.  All  of  his  children  were  born  there.  In  1846  he  moved 
to  the  "old  store  house"  at  the  Centre  and  lived  there  many  years.  He 
later  went  to  live  with  his  son  Abner  B.  in  Francestown,  where  he  died. 
He  was  a  quiet,  unassuming  man,  of  great  integrity  of  character,  and  a 
long  time  member  of  the  Congregational  church.  Children  :  — 

1.  ADONIRAM,  + 

2.  MARY,  b.  Sept.  7,  1806,  d.  Aug.  29,  1848. 

3.  DANIEL,  + 

4.  JACOB  ANDREWS,  + 

5.  CAROLINE,  b.  Oct.  24,  1814,  d.  April  15,  1847. 

6.  CHARLES,  -f- 

7.  lyUCY,  m.  Kilburn  S.  Curtis.     (See  Curtis  gen.) 

8.  ABNER  B.,  -|- 

ADONIRAM  WOODWARD,  son  of  Daniel  and  Lucy  (Burnham) 
Woodward,  born  Sept.  14,  1804 ;  married  March,  1834,  Achsah  Hoar  of 
Littleton,  Mass.  She  was  born  June  2,  1801 ;  died  March  28,  1866.  He 
died  July  29,  1849.  Children  born  in  Lyndeborough :  — 

1.  ALBERT,  b,  March  6,  1835,  d.  June  17,  1854. 

2.  KLLEN,  b.  June  26,  1841,  m.  John  M.   Robbins,  Aug.   29, 

1876,  and  res.  at  L/eominster,  Mass. 

DEA.  DANIEL  WOODWARD,  son  of  Daniel  and  Lucy  (Burnham) 
Woodward,  born  May  23,  1809;  married  Sept.  6,  1832,  Cynthia  S.,  daugh- 
ter of  Daniel  and  Joanna  (Balch)  Simonds  of  Burlington,  Mass.  She 
was  born  in  Barnard,  Vt.,  Oct.  20,  1811,  and  died  in  Lyndeborough,  June 
5,  1887.  He  died  in  Lyndeborough,  April  3,  1866.  He  was  born  at  the 


H1STOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

Woodward  homestead  on  the  north  side  of  the  mountain.  When  a 
young  man  he  removed  to  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  went  to  work  in  the  cotton 
mills,  where  he  soon  became  an  overseer.  He  was  married  in  Lowell, 
his  wife  being  a  descendant  on  the  mother's  side  of  Israel  Balch  of 
Francestown.  In  1836  he  removed  to  Newburyport,  Mass.,  and  bought 
a  cotton  mill  which  he  operated  for  a  few  years,  but  failing  health  com- 
pelled him  to  sell  out  his  business,  and  he  came  back  to  Lyndeborough 
and  bought  out  the  store  at  the  "centre,"  and  was  in  business  there  for 
a  while,  then  swapped  the  old  store  house  for  his  father's  farm  and 
moved  to  the  old  homestead.  In  1851  he  again  removed  to  Lowell  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Tremont  and  Suffolk  Corporation  as  overseer 
of  the  carding  and  spinning  room.  He  was  prominent  in  the  political 
and  business  affairs  of  the  city  and  was  an  alderman  in  1854.  Wherever 
he  lived  he  always  affiliated  himself  with  the  church  and  Sabbath  school, 
and  was  made  a  deacon  of  the  John  St.  Congregational  Church.  He 
was  a  fine  teacher  of  singing,  and  taught  many  schools  in  Lowell,  New- 
buryport, and  towns  adjoining  Lyndeborough.  He  was  a  good  mechanic, 
and  cotton  manufacturing  was  his  favorite  business,  but  his  health  was 
such  that  he  could  not  stand  the  dust  and  confinement  of  the  cotton 
mill  for  long  at  a  time.  In  1859,  failing  health  again  compelled  him  to 
seek  the  out-door  life  of  the  farm,  and  he  removed  to  Francestown,  and 
bought  the  Kingsbury  place,  near  his  brother  Abner's  farm.  Here  he 
remained  until  the  spring  of  1862,  when  he  came  back  to  his  native 
town,  and  bought  the  James  Grant  place  north  of  Badger  Pond,  where 
he  lived  until  his  death.  He  was  superintendent  of  schools  and  select- 
man and  filled  other  places  of  trust  in  town.  He  was  a  man  of  unswerv- 
ing integrity  of  character  and  had  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  every 
community  where  he  lived.  Children  :  — 

1.  CHARLES  HENRY,   b.   in  Lowell,   Mass.,    Dec.    16,   1833,  d. 

April  25,  1835. 

2.  HENRY  MARTIN,  b.  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  July  15,  1836, 

m.  first,  Sept.  9,  1857,  Belinda  A.  Robbins  of  Lowell,  Mass. 
She  was  a  dau.  of  Luther  and  Belinda  (Sumner)  Robbins. 
She  was  b.  Sept.  9,  1838,  d.  June  5,  1892  ;  m.  second, 
Oct.  3,  1895,  Lora,  dan.  of  Samuel  and  Phebe  (Noyes) 
Marden  of  New  Boston.  She  was  b.  Aug.  n,  1843.  He 
was  a  soldier  in  the  6th  Mass.  Regt.  with  the  rank  of  ser- 
geant and  participated  in  the  celebrated  march  through 
Baltimore,  April  19,  1861.  Res.  in  Rindge,  N.  H.  Chil- 
dren :  Cora  B.,  Mary  E.,  Emma  B.,  Milo  R.,  Luetta. 

3.  WILLIAM  BIXBY,  b.  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  April  8,  1838, 

d.  in  Lowell,  March  4,  1859. 

4.  JACOB  ANDREWS,  + 

5.  EDWARD  PAYSON,   b.  in  Lyndeborough,  Aug.  8,   1851,  m. 

first,  Dora  Shaw  of  Norton,  Mass.;  m.  second,  Carrie 
Tyler  of  Hyde  Park,  Mass.;  third,  Hattie,  dau.  of  Joseph 


GENEALOGIES  889 

Popple  of  Rindge,  N.  H.,  b.  Nov.  12,  1872.  Res.  in 
Rindge,  N.  H.  Children  by  first  wife:  Mabel  L,.,  Ina, 
Grace  ;  by  third  wife  :  Gladys  H. 

JACOB  ANDREWS  WOODWARD,  son  of  Daniel  and  Cynthia 
(Simonds)  Woodward,  born  in  Lyndeborough,  Sept.  28,  1845  '•>  married 
Sept.  26,  1872,  Lena  E.,  daughter  of  John  W.  and  Elizabeth  (McCol- 
lister)  Sheldon  of  Derby,  Vt.  She  was  born  Aug.  18,  1848.  Children  :  — 

1.  ARTHUR  EASTMAN,  -f- 

2.  L/INCOLN    NUTE,    -f- 

ARTHUR  EASTMAN  WOODWARD,  son  of  Jacob  A.  and  Lena  (Shel- 
don) Woodward,  born  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  Aug.  18,  1874;  married  Sept- 
26,  1899,  Mabel  M.,  daughter  of  Charles  O.  and  Mary  A.  (Wheeler) 
Clement  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  April  9,  1877.  Resides  at 
Boston,  Mass.  Children  :  — 

1.  BEATRICE,  b.  Jan.  i,  1901. 

2.  CLEMENT  A.,  b.  Sept.  9,  1904. 

LINCOLN  NUTE  WOODWARD,  son  of  Jacob  A.  and  Lena  (Sheldon) 
Woodward,  born  May  16,  1878,  in  Lowell,  Mass ;  married  June  29,  1904, 
Bertha  G.,  daughter  of  Charles  L.  and  Emma  (Tarbell)  Perham. 

JACOB  ANDREWS  WOODWARD,  son  of  Daniel  and  Lucy  (Burn- 
ham)  Woodward,  born  in  Lyndeborough,  April  10,  1811  ;  married  Julia 
Bowen  of  Holderness.  She  was  born  April  2,  1809 ;  died  Nov.  27,  1878. 
He  died  in  Francestown  July  20,  1846.  He  removed  to  Francestown  and 
built  the  house  where  Moses  Jellison  now  lives.  Children  :  — 

i.  GEORGIANNA  A.,  b.  Dec..  16,  1842,  m.  March  28,  1865,  at 
L/owell,  Mass.,  Edward  J.  Cobleigh  of  Northfield,  Vt.,  b. 
March  22,  1837.  Child:  Lillian  Gertrude,  b.  Dec.  19, 
1867. 

CHARLES  WOODWARD,  son  of  Daniel  and  Lncy  (Burnham) 
Woodward,  born  March  28,  1817  ;  married  first,  Phebe  Jane,  daughter  of 
Timothy  and  Susanna  (McAlvin)  Ordway.  She  was  born  May  28,  1826 ; 
died  April  30,  1852;  married  second,  Mary  Henderson  of  Newton,  Iowa. 
She  died  March  29,  1865.  He  died  at  Grinnell,  Iowa,  Aug.  u,  1874.  He 
removed  to  Iowa  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife  and  was  one  of  the 
pioneers  of  that  state,  and  was  one  of  those  who  crossed  the  plains  to 
Pike's  Peak  during  the  gold  excitement.  Children  born  at  Newton 
Iowa :  Charles,  Ella. 

ABNER  B.  WOODWARD,  son  of  Daniel  and  Lucy  (Burnham)  Wood- 
ward, born  in  Lyndeborough,  April  30,  1822;  married  March  30,  1859, 
Caroline  M.,  daughter  of  Lyman  and  Elizabeth  (Holbrook)  Perkins  of 
Lyine.  She  was  born  March  10,  1836.  He  died  in  Stoneham,  Mass., 
June  14,  1899.  When  a  young  man  he  removed  to  Francestown  and 
entered  the  employ  of  Col.  Daniel  Fuller  and  after  the  death  of  the 
widow  of  Daniel  in  1858,  received  by  bequest  a  large  part  of  the  Fuller 


890  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO  UGH 

estate.  He  was  largely  interested  in  the  material  prosperity  of  Frances- 
town,  and  was  selectman,  president  of  the  savings  bank  and  filled  other 
positions  of  trust.  In  1883,  he  removed  to  Stoneham,  Mass.,  where  he 
died.  Children  born  in  Francestown :  Will  A.,  Mary  P.,  Carrie  P., 
Abner  I,.,  Fred  F.,  Albert  S.,  Herbert  F. 

ELIJAH  WOODWARD,  son  of  Ithemer  and  Huldah  (Sharp)  Wood- 
ward, born  Feb.  21,  1782^;  married  Nov.  17,  1808,  Rhoda  Austin  of 
Francestown.  She  died  Feb.  18,  1863.  He  died  Jan.  25,  1852.  This 
family  removed  to  I/andgrove,  Vt.  Children:  — 

1.  AMBROSE,  b.  March  10,  1811,  m.  Hannah  I,.   Bixby,  Sept. 

6,  1835. 

2.  RHODA,  b.  Sept.  9,  1812,  m.  Amos  H.  Jenkins,  May  5,  1836. 

She  d.  Feb.  7,  1899. 

3.  LEWIS  E.,  b.   Dec.    14,  1815,  m.  Mary  D.   Mack,  Nov.  28, 

1839,  d.  March  12,  1876. 

4.  LAURA  M.,  b.  Jan.  10,  1819,  m.  Jotham  Swallow,  April  15, 

1841,  d.  Nov.  29,  1859. 

5.  MARANDA,  b.  July  6,  1822,  m.   Reuben  Lampson,  May  24, 

1845,  d.  May  31,  1863. 

6.  HUI«DAH,  b.  July  16,  1824,  m.  Amasa  Richardson,  Nov.  21, 

1842. 

7.  CHARGES  W.,  b.  July  13,  1827,  m.  first,  Lucy  Pease,  Jan.  i, 

1850;  m.  second,  Laura  V.  Holman,  Oct.   31,  1864.     Res. 
in  West  Acton,  Mass. 

EI/EAZER  WOODWARD,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah  (Williams) 
Woodward;  born  in  Brooklyn,  Conn.,  Jan.  8,  1738;  married  in  1764 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Cram)  Putnam.  She  was  born 
March  9,  1743;  died  Oct.  5,  1811.  She  was  the  first  white  child  born  in 
Salem-Canada,  and  became  a  professional  midwife.  She  was  often  car- 
ried in  a  large  basket  to  her  destination  when  the  snow  was  too  deep  for 
a  horse  to  travel,  two  men  furnishing  the  motive  power.  He  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers  of  Salem-Canada,  and  made  a  farm  where  Jacob  A.  Wood- 
ward now  lives.  This  place  he  sold  to  the  town  for  a  poor  farm.  He 
died  Dec.  19,  1815.  Children :  — 

1.  HUI.DAH,  b.  June  23,  1765,  m.  John  Cram.     (See  Cram  gen.) 

2.  HANNAH,  b.  Feb.  i,  1767,  d.  July  15,  1788. 

3.  EPHRAIM,  -j- 

4.  ELEAZER,  -+- 

5.  ISRAEL,  + 

6.  WARD,  -f- 

7.  SARAH,  b.   Feb.  6,   1779,  m.  Benjamin  Cram.     (See  Cram 

gen.) 

8.  ELIZABETH,  b.  Aug.  31,  1781,  m.  Aaron  Woodward. 

9.  DAVID,  -f- 


GENEALOGIES  891 

EPHRAIM  WOODWARD,  son  of  Eleazer  and  Hannah  (Putnam) 
Woodward;  born  March  18,  1769;  married  first,  Nov.  17,  1791,  Hannah, 
daughter  of  Dea.  David  and  Rachel  Badger.  She  was  born  Dec.  19,  1770; 
died  Feb.  22,  1830.  He  married  second,  Mrs.  Jane,  widow  of  Oliver  Bar- 
rett of  Wilton.  He  married  third,  Widow  Hyde.  He  died  Feb.  8,  1850. 
Children  :  — 

1.  EPHRAIM,  -f- 

2.  HANNAH,  m.  David,  son  of  Capt.  Ward  Woodward,  rem.  to 

Brooklyn,  Conn. 

3.  BENJAMIN,  d.  in  Canada. 

4.  JACOB,  -f- 

5.  ANNA,  m.  Lewis  Cram.     (See  Cram  gen.) 

6.  PUTNAM,  m.  Susan  Grey,  rem.  to  Wilton. 

7.  LOUISA,  d.  June  21,  1830. 

8.  LUCINDA,  m.  Samuel  Hartshorn.     (See  Hartshorn  gen.) 

EPHRAIM  WOODWARD,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah  (Badger) 
Woodward  ;  born  Nov.  25,  1792 ;  married  Sept.  25,  1817,  Olive,  daughter 
of  Jonathan  Chamberlain  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Aug.  4,  1788; 
died  March  25,  1865.  He  died  Sept.  23,  1879.  Children  :  — 

1.  OuvE,  b.  Dec.  17,  1818. 

2.  EPHRAIM,  b.  July  13,  1820. 

3.  RACHEL  A.,  b.  Oct.  4,  1821. 

JACOB  WOODWARD,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Hannah  (Badger)  Wood- 
ward ;  born  May  9,  1806 ;  married  April  26,  1827,  Mary,  daughter  of  Asa 
and  Sybil  (Pierce)  Blanchard  of  I/yndeborough.  She  was  born  April  15, 
1807 ;  died  June  6,  1886.  He  died  Aug.  17,  1867.  Children  :  — 

1.  JACOB  NEWTON,  -\- 

2.  EPHRAIM  W.,  b.  Aug.  21,  1829,  m.  Dec.  29,   1852,  Ann  E. 

Webster  of  Hampstead,  Mass.,  rem.  to  Concord,  where  he 
d.  Sept.,  1889. 

3.  MARY  E.,  b.  June  30,  1831,  m.  Jan.  i,  1860,  Joshua  Shirley 

of  Conway,  d.  Jan.,  1892. 

4.  BRADLEY  B.,    b.    Feb.    28,    1834,    m.    first,    April   5,    1858, 

Frances  E.  Lang  of  Conway,  m,  second,  Lizzie  C.  Page  of 
Conway,  Jan.  2,  1866.  He  is  a  prosperous  and  influential 
citizen  of  Conway ;  representative  to  the  General  Court  in 
1889,  and  has  held  many  positions  of  trust  in  the  town  ;  has 
a  fine  farm  nearly  opposite  the  town  of  Fryeburg,  Me. 
Children  :  Hattie,  Howard,  Mary. 

5.  DAVID  RUFUS,  b.  in  Conway,  Nov.  28,  1843,  res.  in  South 

Framingham,  Mass. 

JACOB  NEWTON  WOODWARD,  son  of  Jacob  and  Mary  (Blanchard) 


892  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

Woodward ;  born  March  4,  1828 ;  married  Oct.  8,  1857,  Almira  L.  Ordway 
of  West  Fairlee,  Vt.     She  was  born  Feb.  u,  1833.     Children :  — 

1.  EDWARD  N.,  b.  July  i,  1862,  d.  Dec.  2,  1862. 

2.  GEORGE  N.,  b.  May  21,  1869,  res.  in  Concord. 

3.  KTTA  MAY,  b.  May  14,  1872,  res.  in  Concord. 

ELEAZER  WOODWARD,  son  of  Eleazer  and  Hannah  (Putnam) 
Woodward;  born  Oct.  5,  1771;  married  Nov.  15,  1797,  Rachel,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Mary  Houston  of  Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  Oct.  22, 
1779;  died  April  2,  1843.  He  d.  Jan.  4,  1855.  Children:  — 

1.  SAMUEL,,  b.  July  5,  1800,  d.  July  20,  1821. 

2.  PUTNAM,  b.  June  n,  1802,  rem.  to  New  York. 

3.  WILLIAMS,  -f- 

4.  IRA  H.,  b.  June  13,   1811.     Prepared  for  the  ministry  and 

rem.  to  one  of  the  southern  states,  where  he  d.  Jan.  1830. 

5.  L,EVI  HOUSTON,  -f- 

6.  EMILY,  m.  Jonathan  Stephenson.     (See  Stephenson  gen.) 

WILLIAMS  WOODWARD,    son   of    Eleazer  and   Rachel    (Houston) 
Woodward;  born  Aug.  13,  1804;  married  April  21,  1829,  Hannah,  daugh- 
ter of  Aaron  and  Hannah  (Boardman)  Lewis  of  Francestown.     She  was 
born  Aug.  19,  1800;  died  Aug.   17,   1863.     He  died  Dec.  24,   1859.     Chil 
dren  :  — 

1.  HANNAH  ELIZABETH,  m.  Isaac  L,.  Duncklee.     (See  Dunck- 

lee  gen.) 

2.  ABIGAIL  P.,  b.  Jan.  29.  1839,  d.  Oct.  23,  1855. 

LEVI  HOUSTON  WOODWARD,  son  of  Eleazer  and  Rachel  (Houston) 
Woodward;  born  Jan.  5,  1815;  married  first,  March  30,  1843,  Caroline, 
daughter  of  Nathan  and  Hannah  E.  (Russell)  Fish  of  Lyndeborough. 
She  was  born  May  8,  1820 ;  died  Oct.  5,  1878.  He  married  second,  Han- 
nah J.  Wellman  of  Dublin.  He  removed  to  Eastjaffrey,  where  he  died 
Jan.  10,  1888.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  ADALINA  R.,  b.  Oct.  31,  1839,  m.  John  H.  Lynch. 

2.  RACHEL  A.,  b.  Sept.  i,  1850. 
Child  by  second  wife  :  — 

3.  ANNIE  MAY. 

ISRAEL  WOODWARD,  son  of  Eleazer  and  Hannah  (Putnam)  Wood- 
ward ;  born  May  17,  1773 ;  married  Hannah  Hardy  of  Lyndeborough, 
Nov.  18,  1804.  She  was  born  Nov.  24,  1781;  died  July  6,  1845.  He  died 
March  29,  1858.  Children:  — 

1.  HANNAH  W.,  b.  July  n,  m.  Daniel  Woodward.    (See  Daniel 

Woodward  gen.),  d.  Jan.  12,  1894, 

2.  ABIGAIL  H.,  b.  Jan.  27,  1814,  d.  Oct.  31,  1854. 

3.  JESSIE  H.,  b.  July  16,    1817,  m.  Dolly  J.  Pierce  of  Nashua, 

d.  Jan.,   1894. 


GENEALOGIES  893 

WARD  WOODWARD,  son  of  Eleazer  and  Hannah  (Putnam)  Wood- 
ward, born  Aug.  31,  1776;  married  Nov.  16,  1797,  Elizabeth  Day.  He 
died  Oct.  24,  1850.  He  removed  to  New  York,  where  his  descendants 
now  reside.  They  had  twelve  children,  some  of  whom  were  born  in 
I/yndeborough  :  — 

1.  ELEAZER,   b.    Aug.    22,    1798,    m.    May   4,    1820,    Hannah 

Mears. 

2.  WARD,   b.    March   8,    1800,    m.   'Nov.    25,    1822,    Hannah 

Cresy.     He  d.  Jan.  16,  1861. 

3.  ISAAC  D.,  b.  Feb.  28,  1802,  m.  June  18,  1827,  Althea  Sum- 

ner,  d.  April  3,  1877. 

4.  ABRAHAM,  b.   Aug.  22,   1804,   m.  Jan.   18,   1823,   Margaret 

Moore. 

5.  ELIZABETH,  b.  July  25,  1806,  m.  September,  1829,  Thomas 

Earle. 

6.  WILLIAM  C.,  b.  Aug.  22,  1808,  m.  January,   1837,  Harriet 

Pierce  ;  m.  second,  Nancy  Hardy.     He  d.  May  4,  1877. 

7.  SUSANNA  S.,  b.  Dec.  25,  1810,  d.  Sept.  21,  1813. 

8.  SYLVANUS  N.,  b.  April  17,  1813,  d.  Oct.  5,  1834. 

9.  L,YDIA  A.,  b.  October,  1815,  m.  June  6,  1833,  John  Pierce, 

Jr. 

10.  ALPHEUS    G.,    b.    April    19,    1818,    m.    March    10,    1843, 
Hannah  A.  L,oring.     He  d.  March  30,  1877. 

n.  GEORGE  N.,  b.  Aug.   13,  1820,  m.  March  10,  1847,  Emily 

Goodyear.     He  d.  Jan.  22,  1856. 
12.  SAVIA  S.,  b.  Nov.  5,  1825,  d.  May  13,  1842. 

DAVID  WOODWARD,  son  of  Eleazer  and  Hannah  (Putnam)  Wood- 
ward, born  Jan.  18,  1787;  married  first,  Mary,  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Polly  (Epps)  Kidder;  married  second,  Elizabeth  Danforth  of  Hillsboro, 
March  20,  1819.  She  was  born  Dec.  15,  1794 ;  died  in  Jasper,  N.  Y.,  May 
28,  1870.  He  died  March  15,  1852.  David  Woodward  removed  to  Jasper, 
N.  Y.,  soon  after  his  second  marriage.  Of  the  children  by  his  second 
wife,  George  D.  was  born  in  Lyndeborough.  He  built  the  brick  house, 
which  Edward  Duncklee  has  remodeled  into  the  Pinnacle  House.  Chil- 
dren by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  JOSEPH,  b.  Feb.    20,   1811,   m.   Betsey  Jones.     (See  Jones 

gen.)     He  d.  in  Oregon  in  1889. 

2.  MARY,  b.    Feb.   i,   1813,  m.  Leonard   Marshall  of   Boston, 

Sept.  8,  1835.     He  d.  July  i,  1880.     She  d.  Jan.  30,  1881. 

3.  SARAH  S.,  b.  Nov.  25,  1814,  m.  Sept.  27,  1838,  S.  F.  Den- 

nis.    She  d.  Feb.  21,  1880. 

4.  DAVID  F.,  b.  Oct.  20,  1816,  m.  in   1839,  Phebe  Webster  of 

Bath,  N.  Y.     He  d.  April  21,  1888.     She  d.  Feb.  8,  1865. 


894  HISTORY   OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

5.  CALVIN,  b.  1818,  m.  in  1842,  Jane  Porter  of  Homer,  N.  Y. 

He  d.  in  August,  1844. 
Children  by  second  wife  :  — 

6.  GEORGE  D.,  b.   Oct.   5,  1823,   m.   Oct.  30,    1850,  Mary  E. 

Prentice  of  Jasper,  N.  Y.     She  was  b.  July  24,  1832. 

7.  WILLIAM  T.,  b.  Oct.  19,  1827,  m.  Jan.  13,  1857,  Sarah  C. 

Everest.     She  was  b.«Nov.  n,  1834.     He  d.  June  25,  1864. 

8.  ELIZA  J.,  b.  July  19,    1832,   m.  April  23,    1847,  David  C. 

Hollenbeck.     He  was  b.  at  Greene,  Chenango  Co.,  N.  Y., 
Sept.  26,  1826,  d.  Feb.  5,  1865,  at  City  Point,  Va. 

*CAPT.  WARD  WOODWARD,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Huldah  (Cram) 
Woodward,  born  in  Canterbury,  Conn.,  April  16,  1751 ;  married  Oct.  19, 
1780,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Dea.  Ephraim  and  Sarah  (Cram)  Putnam  of 
Lyndeborough.  She  was  born  March  17,  1761 ;  died  Oct.  18,  1848.  He 
died  April  12,  1810.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Continental  Army  with  the 
rank  of  captain.  Children  :  — 

1.  AARON,  + 

2.  SEWELL,  b.  Feb.  8,  1783. 

3.  EPHRAIM  P.,  -\- 

4.  WARD,  b.  Sept.  12,  1785,  m.  Sarah  York  of  Brooklyn,  Conn. 

5.  DEIDAMIA,  b.  Oct.  8,  1787. 

6.  ELEAZER,  b.  July  n,  1790,  m.  Henrietta  Ingraham. 

7.  ABIGAIL,  b.  Jan.  n,  1792,  m.  Joseph   Austin  of  Brooklyn, 

Conn. 

8.  DAVID,  b.  Nov.  12,  1793,  m.  first,  Hannah  P.  Woodward  of 

L/yndeborough ;  m.  second,  Nancy  lyittlehale  of  Brooklyn, 
Conn. 

9.  SALLY,  b.  April  i,  1796,  d.  Sept.  8,  1797. 

10.  ARTEMAS,  b.  Feb.  19,  1800,  d.  November,  1810. 

11.  AUGUSTUS,  b.  June  25,  1804. 

AARON  WOODWARD,  son  of  Capt.  Ward  and  Rebecca  (Putnam) 
Woodward,  rwas  born  at  Canterbury,  Conn.,  Sept.  20,  1781 ;  married 
Elizabeth  Woodward  of  Lyndeborough,  Oct.  15,  1807.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Eleazer  and  Hannah  ^Putnamj  Woodward,  born  Aug.  31, 
1781;  died  Jan.  27,  1879.  He  settled  on  a  farm  east  of  where  R.  C. 
Mason  no%  lives.  There  is  nothing  but  a  cellar  hole  to  mark  the  site. 
The  children  were  born  there.  He  died  July  16,  1845.  Children  :  — 

1.  REBECCA,  b.  Feb.    19,  1809,  m.  Josiah  Colburn  of   Hollis, 

N.  H.,  Dec.  29,  1856.     She  d.  Feb.  20,  1889. 

2.  ARTEMAS,  -j~ 

3.  CORDELIA,  b.  May  2,  1815,  d.  Aug.  31,  1821. 

4.  HULDAH,  b.  June  i,  1817,  d.  Aug.   10,  1881. 

*  Bond's  History  of  Watertown  gives  the  date  of  his  birth  as  April  5,  1751. 


GENEALOGIES  895 

5.  HENRIETTA,  b.  April  19,   1820,  m.   Col.  William  Cross  of 

Litchfield,  N.  H.,  April  9,  1839,  d.  Aug.  13,  1854. 

6.  AARON  BURLEIGH,   b.   March  18,   1822,   m.  first,   Hannah 

Cross   of    lyitchfield,    N.    H.,    May   4,    1847  ;    m.    second, 
Susan  Howard  of  Amherst,  N.  H.,  Dec.  14,  1853. 

7.  SEWELL,  b.  Dec.  3,  1823,  d..Feb.  2,  1847. 

8.  ELIZABETH  A.,  b.  Dec.  14,  1826,  m.  Benj.  K.  Jones;  m.  sec- 

ond, Walter  Blake. 

9.  CALISTA  D.,  b.  Aug.  29,  1829,  d.  Feb.  7,  1856. 

ARTEMAS  WOODWARD,  son  of  Aaron  and  Elizabeth  (Woodward) 
Woodward,  born  Nov.  17,  1811 ;  married  first,  Christianna  Gibson  of 
Windsor.  She  was  born  Jan.  18,  1819,  and  was  instantly  killed  by  being 
thrown  from  a  wagon  on  the  road  from  the  centre  to  South  Lyndebor- 
ough,  May  8,  1852.  A  granite  monument  marks  the  spot ;  married  sec- 
ond, Nancy  E.  Savage  of  Greenfield,  Oct.  28,  1852.  She  was  born  Aug. 
2,  1828.  He  died  March  31,  1884.-  He  was  a  genial,  kindly  man  whom 
every  one  liked  and  respected.  Children  by  first  wife  :  — 

1.  ALFRED  C.,   b.    Aug.    14,    1842,    m.    Hattie   F.    Lakin  of, 

Greenville.     She   was   murdered   and    the    murderer  was 
never  apprehended. 

2.  ALBERT  C.,  b.  Dec.  21,  1847,  d.  Sept.  19,  1858. 

By  second  wife  :  — 

3.  ETHAN  A.,  + 

4.  WILLIAM  A.,  b.  Dec.  24,  1859,  m.  March  16,  1882,  Ella  J. 

Needham  of  Irisburg,  Vt. 

5.  CHRISTIANNA  E.,  b.  Feb.  23,  1863,  m.  March  7,  1882,  Ed- 

ward E.  Weston.     Res.  in  Amherst. 

6.  HARVEY  E.,  b.  Dec.  9,  1868,  m.  Sept.   i,  1889,   Emma  F. 

Giddings  of  Wilton. 

ETHAN  A.  WOODWARD,  son  of  Artemas  and  Nancy  E.  (Savage) 
Woodward,  born  May  12,  1858;  married  Nov.  14,  1882,  Lizzie  R.,  daughter 
of  Franklin  H.  and  Elsey  (Fish)  Kidder.  She  was  born  June  15,  1859; 
died  July  20,  1904.  He  resides  on  the  Kidder  homestead. 

EPHRAIM  PUTMAN  WOODWARD,  son  of  Capt.  Ward  and  Rebecca 
(Putnam)  Woodward ;  born  June  2,  1784;  married  Lucy,  daughter  of 
Ithemer  and  Huldah  (Sharp)  Woodward,  April  7,  1808.  She  was  born 
Sept.  9,  1784.  He  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  Conn.,  and  after  his  marriage 
evidently  returned  there  with  his  bride,  for  the  three  older  children  were 
born  in  Connecticut.  He  came  back  to  Lyndeborough  in  1814,  but  soon 
thereafter  moved  to  New  York  to  make  a  new  home,  his  family  remain- 
ing here  until  he  should  provide  it,  but  he  lived  but  a  short  time  after 
his  arrival  there,  and  died  about  1822.  His  wife  died  in  1836  or  1837. 
Children  :  — 


896  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBOROUGH 

i  &  2.  JARED  and  L,UCITTY  (twins),  b.  at  Pomfret,  Conn.,  d.  in 
infancy. 

3.  ASHER,  b.  at  Brooklyn,  Conn.,  Dec.  6,  1811,  d.  young. 

4.  BENJAMIN  F.,  b.  in   Francestown,  April  n,  1813,01.  Sarah, 

Bradford. 

5.  ANSON  W.,   b.  in  Lyndeborough,   Aug.   i,    1815,   m.  Ann 

Richardson.  Rem.  to  Boston,  where  he  died.  They  had 
one  child,  a  son,  who  died  many  years  ago,  and  of  whom  I 
have  no  record. 

6.  JAMES  G.,  b.  in  L,yndeborough,  Sept.   13,  1817;  m.  Phebe, 

dau.  of  Capt.  Nathan  and  Abigail  (Abbott)  Culver  of 
L/owell,  Mass.,  May  16,  1848.  She  was  b.  May  16,  1823. 
He  rem.  to  Henry  Co.,  111.,  in  1854,  and  in  1868,  sold  his 
Illinois  farm  and  rem.  to  Kellogg,  Jasper  Co.,  Iowa,  where 
he  d.  Nov.  25,  1899.  He  was  a  jovial  man,  always  liked 
by  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  He  bought  a  wild 
prairie  farm,  but  before  his  death  had  it  nicely  improved. 
Children :  Abby  Frances,  James  Edwin,  Lucy  Annett, 
Martha  Elmira,  Mary  Bmma,  Frederick  Newton,  Charles, 
Warren.  Frederic  Newton  Woodward  rem.  to  Kansas, 
where  he  is  an  influential  citizen,  at  one  time  a  member  of 
the  Kansas  Legislature. 

7.  KPHRAIM  WARD,  b.  Aug.  12,  1820,  m.  I/ydia,  dau.  of  Asa 

and  Olive  (Spaulding)  Manning  of  I/yndeborough.  They 
rem.  to  Michigan,  where  he  became  a  prosperous  farmer, 
and  at  the  time  of  his  death,  in  October,  1880,  was  county 
supervisor.  His  widow  survived  him  many  years,  and  was 
always  a  liberal  contributor  to  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Lyndeborough.  They  had  at  least  one  child,  who  died 
young. 

JOHN  WOODWARD,  son  of  Ephraim  and  Huldah  (Cram)  Woodward, 
born  Jan.  19,  1753,  in  Canterbury,  Conn.  He  came  to  Lyndeborough 
and  married  Judith  Foster  of  Temple,  but  evidently  returned  with  his 
wife  to  Connecticut,  for  Samuel,  his  eldest  child,  was  an  infant  when 
they  again  came  to  I/yndeborough.  They  came  on  horseback  all  the 
way,  and  Samuel  was  brough  in  his  mother's  arms.  He  settled  on  land 
and  built  a  house  north  of  No.  9  schoolhouse.  He  also  owned  a  large 
lot  of  land  west  of  the  John  Dolliver  place.  His  wife  was  born  Nov.  13, 
1753.  Children:  — 

1.  SAMUEL,    + 

2.  DANIEL,  b.  March  26,  1781,  m.  Hannah  Putnam  and  rem. 

to  Ohio. 

3.  JOHN,  + 


HERITABLE    TRASK   WOODWARD. 

BORJ?  AUGUST  27, 18Ci3. 

Halt-tone  from  Photograph  taken  Aupust  -.'7,  1903. 


GENEALOGIES  897 

4.  lyUCY,  b.  March  26,  1784,  m.  June  29,  1818,  Daniel  Mason  of 

Otsego  Co.,  N.  Y. 

5.  ABIGAIL,  b.  March  17,    1786,    m.   Barker.     Rem.   to 

Ohio. 

6.  EPHRAIM,  b.  Jan.  9,  1788,  m.  Sept.  25,  1817,  Olive  Cham- 

berlain.    Rem.  to  New  York. 

7.  HANNAH,  b.  Jan.  20,  1781,  m.   Daniel,  son  of  Ithemer  and 

Huldah  (Sharp)  Woodward. 

8.  JUDITH,  b.  March  18,  1793,  m.  first,  Charles  Hadley,  April 

26,  1821 ;  m.  second,  Samuel  Ferson,  March  i,  1838. 

SAMUEL  WOODWARD,  son  of  John  and  Judith  (Foster)  Wood- 
ward, born  Nov.  9,  1778;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and 
Margaret  Chamberlain,  born  June  3,  1776.  Children  :  — 

1.  DANIEL,  b.  July  24,  1803,  m.  Abigail  Barker  and  rem.  to 

the  west,  d.  Feb.  22,  1888. 

2.  SAMUEL,  -+- 

3.  ISAIAH,  d.  Jan.  4,  1836. 

4.  FOSTER,  -f- 

DEA.  SAMUEL  WOODWARD,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Cham- 
berlain)  Woodward  ;  married  Eunice  Clark  of  Lyndeborough,  and  re- 
moved to  Amherst.  In  March,  1854,  they  removed  to  Illinois  and 
settled  in  Brenton,  Ford  Co.  They  had  eight  children  born  to  them,  only 
one,  Mary  A.,  born  in  Lyndeborough,  the  others  were  born  in  Amherst. 
He  was  active  in  church  and  was  made  a  deacon,  and  was  useful  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  new  country  where  he  made  his  home.  He  died  at 
Lymau,  Ford  Co.,  Illinois,  June  24,  1882.  His  wife,  Eunice  (Clark) 
Woodward,  died  at  the  same  place,  Aug.  30,  1885,  aged  82  years  and  19 
days. 

FOSTER  WOODWARD,  son  of  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Chamberlain) 
Woodward,  born  Oct.  18,  1809 ;  married  May  30,  1828,  Mrs.  Mehitable 
(Trask)  Hildreth,  widow  of  Charles  Hildreth.  She  was  born  Aug.  27, 
1803.  At  this  writing  (1905)  she  is  living  in  her  io3rd  year,  a'nd  retains  a 
very  good  memory  of  the  early  days  of  Lyndeborough.  He  died  Dec.  14, 
1884.  Children  :  — 

1.  GEORGE  T.,  + 

2.  ELIZA  A.,  b.  May  30,  1841. 

3.  MARTHA  E.,  b.  May  25,  1843,  d.  Oct.  11,  1846. 

4.  ISAIAH  F.,  -f 

5.  JOSEPHINE  M.,  b.  April  20,  1848. 

GEORGE  TRASK  WOODWARD,  son  of  Foster  and  Mehitable  (Hil- 
dreth) Woodward ;  born  Oct.  4,  1839 ;  married  Nov.  13,  1866,  Susan 
Odell.  She  died  Oct.  18,  1870 ;  married  second,  Dec.  25,  1873,  Abby  F. 
Morrison  of  Lowell,  Mass.  She  died  in  1896.  He  died  at  the  Soldiers' 
Home,  Chelsea,  Mass.,  July  2,  1904. 


898  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

Besides  the  district  schools  of  his  native  town  he  attended  several 
terms  at  the  Appleton  Academy,  Mont  Vernon,  then  under  the  charge  of 
Prof.  Bancroft.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  he  en- 
listed in  the  company  of  which  George  A.  Bruce  was  first  lieutenant  and 
Charles  M.  Kittredge  second  lieutenant,  and  was  mustered  in  as  a  private 
on  Sept.  18,  1862.  This  was  in  the  isth  Regt.,  N.  H.  Vol.  He  was  sub- 
sequently promoted  to  corporal  and  then  to  sergeant.  Later  he  went  be- 
fore Casey's  examining  board  at  Washington  and  was  commissioned  cap- 
tain in  the  3oth  U.  S.  Colored  Troops  by  President  Lincoln.  This 
regiment  was  commanded  by  Col.  Delevan  Bates,  who  was  formerly  an 
officer  in  the  i2istNew  York. 

Capt.  Woodward  was  without  question  one  of  the  best  company  com- 
manders. He  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  the  Crater  in  the  arm  but  not 
so  seriously  but  that  he  extracted  the  bullet  himself  and  threw  it  away, 
much  to  his  regret  afterwards.  At  Fort  Fisher  he  had  charge  of  Gen. 
Paine 's  courier  line,  and  so  well  did  he  do  his  work  that  the  general 
named  him  for  promotion.  In  accordance  therewith  he  was  brevetted 
major.  He  was  discharged  at  Roanoke  Island,  N.  C.,  Dec.  10,  1865. 

Susan  Odell,  who  became  his  wife,  he  first  met  at  Roanoke  Island, 
where  she  was  a  teacher  in  a  colored  school.  Her  northern  home  was  in 
Saco,  Me.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  bought  the  farm  in  Lyndeborough 
where  Frank  B.  Tay  now  lives,  and  here  his  two  daughters  were  born. 
After  three  years  he  sold  this  farm  to  try  his  fortune  in  Virginia,  and 
bought  a  farm  on  the  James  River  of  225  acres,  about  twenty  miles  below 
City  Point.  His  land  was  fertile  and  produced  good  crops,  but  the  bitter- 
ness of  defeat  which  rankled  in  the  hearts  of  his  neighbors  made  it  un- 
pleasant for  a  man  of  his  positive  convictions,  and  one  morning  he  found 
a  rope  with  hangman's  knot  dangling  from  one  of  his  trees  with  a  placard 
attached  saying  that  unless  he  was  out  of  those  parts  within  a  specified 
time  he  would  be  hung.  His  wife  had  died  leaving  him  alone  in  a  hostile 
community  with  his  two  little  daughters,  and  he  sold  his  land  at  a  sacri- 
fice and  came  back  to  New  England. 

He  settled  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  in  1873  he  married  Abbie  F.  Morri- 
son. He  became  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  was  contractor  for  building  many 
of  Lowell's  business  blocks.  He  was  superintendent  of  public  buildings 
for  three  years,  and  was  much  respected  in  his  adopted  home. .  He  was 
prominent  in  Grand  Army  circles,  and  was  commander  of  Ladd  and 
Whitney  Post,  Lowell,  Mass.,  in  1891.  He  joined  the  Congregational 
Church,  Lyndeborough,  in  1857.  Children  :  — 

1.  MABEL  T.,  b.  in  L/yndeborough,  Sept.  3,  1867. 

2.  GEORGIA  E.,  b.  July  2,  1869  in  Biddeford,  Me.     Is  a  gradu- 

ate of  the  L/owell  Normal  School  and  makes  teaching  her 
vocation. 

ISAIAH  F.  WOODWARD,  son  of  Foster  and  Mehitable  (Hildreth) 
Woodward  ;  born  July  21,  1846  ;  married  May  31,  1870,  Addie  E.  Pearsons 
of  Amherst ;  removed  to  Wilton  ;  died  Feb.  5,  1887.  Children  :  — 

1.  IDA  B. 

2.  ELIZABETH. 


S^J-G-CJ-Z-^JP    <-J,  &V/c'*TC>t 

(f 


GENEALOGIES  899 

3.  ALICE  M. 

JOHN  WOODWARD,  son  of  John  and  Judith  (Foster)  Woodward; 
born  Jan.  10,  1782  ;  married  Anna  Thompson  of  Lyndeborough.  She  died 
July  18,  1829.  He  died  Aug.  21,  1858.  Children  :  — 

1.  JOHN  THOMPSON,  b.  Feb.  29,  1808. 

2.  ESTHER,  b.  Sept.  19,  1809. 

3.  ANNA,  b.  June  2,  1811. 

4.  ELIJAH,  b.  March  21,  1813. 

5.  EPHRAIM,  b.  Dec.  26,  1814. 

6.  MARY,  b.  May  2,  1819,  d.  May  29,  1848. 

7.  JUDITH,  b.  July  28,  1821. 

WRIGHT. 

JULJEN  E.  WRIGHT  was  born  Oct.  7,  1825 ;  married  Aug.  15,  1861, 
Abby  S.  Bridge  of  Dexter,  Me.  She  was  born  Dec.  16,  1835  ;  died  March 
12,  1903.  He  died  April  30,  1896.  He  lived  on  the  farm  formerly  owned 
by  Samuel  Jones.  Children  :  — 

1.  HATTIE  E.,  b.  Feb.  27,  1863;  married  Jan.  4,  1881,  Charles 

H.  Goss  of  Dunstable,  Mass. 

2.  SARAH  A.,  b.  April  15,  1865  ;  married  June  4,  1889,  Herman 

A.  Walker  of  Kittery,  Me. 

YOUNG. 

RICHARD  YOUNG  was  born  May  15,  1796  at  Derryfield,  now  Man- 
chester ;  married  Sarah  Stevens.  She  was  born  at  Manchester,  April  i, 
1807;  died  May  28,  1880.  He  died  March  13,  1877.  He  came  to  Lynde- 
borough  from  Manchester  in  1858,  and  settled  in  the  southwest  part  of 
the  town.  There  were  born  to  them  seventeen  children,  nine  boys  and 
eight  girls.  Of  these  children,  born  at  Manchester,  the  following  came 
to  Lyndeborough  :  — 

CHARLES,  b. ,  d.  Jan.  6,  1898. 

SARAH  S.,   b.   Oct.  24,   1841,   m.  Azro  D.  Cram.     (See  Cram 

gen.) 

HARRIET  E.,  b.  Nov.  4,  1843. 
MARY  A.,  b.  Sept.  22,  1845. 
ESTES  J.,  b.  May  13,  1847. 

ROSINA,  b.  July  20,  1848,  m.  Jason  Holt.     (See  Holt  gen.) 
RICHARD  A.,  b.  May  24,  1853. 


The  following  are  transcripts  from  the  town  records  of  fami- 
lies of  whom  we  have  been  unable  to  find  any  further  trace  :  — 

ABBOTT. 
DANIEL,  son  of  Josiah  and  Hannah  Abbott,  b.  July  31,  1769. 


900 

BALDWIN. 
RHODA,   dau.   of  Jeremiah   Baldwin  and  Rebecca  his  wife,  b. 

Sept.  25,  1790. 
RiSPEE,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  March  13,  1793. 

BEVINS. 
SUSANNA,  dau.  of  Edward  and  Eunice  Bevins,  b.  Mar.  16,  1765. 

CAMPBELL. 
JOHN  IVORY,  son  of  John  Campbell  and  Martha  his  wife,  b.  Oct. 

9,  1789. 
JAMES,  son  of  do.,  b.  Nov.  21,  1791. 

CLOUGH. 

BENJAMIN,  son  of  John  and  Tabithy  Clough,  b.  May  29,  1750. 

JOHN,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Thankful  Clough,  b.  March  6,  1773. 
TABITHA  W.,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  July  16,  1775. 

DAMON. 

LORENZO,  son  of  Warren  and  Nancy  Damon,  b.  May  25,  1813. 
NANCY,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  April  7,  1816. 
WARREN,  son  of  do.,  b.  Jan.  14,  1819. 

DAY. 
SUSANNA,  dau.  of  Isaac  Day  and  Susanna  his  wife,  b.  Sept.  10, 

1774,  d.  Aug.  7,  1776. 

SUSANNA,  2ND.,  dau.  of  do.  b.  March  9,  1777. 
ELIZABETH,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  July  8,  1779,  m.  Ward  Woodward* 
NANCY,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Oct.  16,  1781. 
LYDIA,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Jan.  16,  1784. 
ISAAC,  son  of  do.,  b.  May  14,  1786,  d.  June  25,  1786. 

MARY,  dau.  of  Robert  and  Mary  Day,  b.  Aug.  30,  1769. 

HANNAH,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  April  30,  1771. 

JAMES,  son  of  do.,  b.  Jan.  30,  1773. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  do.,  b.  June  19,  1777. 

BKTTY,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  May  8,  1780. 

ROBERT,  son  of  do.,  b.  March  30,  1782. 

ISAAC,  son  of  do.,  b.  Aug.  6,  1787. 

FARNUM. 

BENJAMIN,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Mehitable  Farnum,  b.  Aug. 
26,  1800. 


GENEALOGIES  901 

ASA,  son  of  do.,  b.  in  Society  Land,  July  31,  1802.- 

MOLLY  and  JAMBS  (twins),  children  of  James  and  Molly  Far- 
nmn,  b.  April  25,  1800. 

FARRINGTON. 

DORCAS  GOULD,  dan.  of  Thomas  and  Susanna  Farrington,  b. 

April  29,  1798. 
WILLIAM,  son  of  do.  b.  Jan.  n,  1800. 

FLETCHER. 

WILLIAM  ALFRED,  son  of  Michael  Fletcher  and  Sally  his  wife, 
b.  Feb.  27,  1809. 

HILDRETH. 
JACOB,  son  of  Ephraim  Hildreth  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  b.  Feb. 

3,  I79I- 
CARLOS,  son  of  do.  b.  Feb.  10,  1793. 

HEALD. 

OLIVE  CLARK,  b.  in  Carlisle,  May  25,  1819. 
JOHN  ESTABROOK,  b.  April  29,  1821. 
REBECCA,  wife  of  John  Heald,  d.  Aug.  20,  1822. 

HUTCHINSON. 
WARREN,  son  of  Thomas  Hutchinson  and  Phebe  his  wife,  b. 

Oct.  30,  1787. 
NATHANIEL,  son  of  do.,  b.  Jan.  24,  1790. 

GRIMES. 

HANNAH,  dau.  of  David  W.  and  Lydia  Grimes,  b.  June  4,  1825. 
DAVID  ELBRTDGE,  son  of  do.,  b.  March  21,  1827. 

KILLAM. 
ALFRED  CLARK,  son  of  Alfred  and  Hannah  Killam,  b.  Jan.  i, 

1812 
HANNAH,  consort  of  Alfred  Killam,  died  suddenly  Feb.   19, 

1812. 

LOVEJOY. 

ELIZABETH,  dau.  of  Jacob  and  Polly  Lovejoy,  b.  Nov.  15,  1813. 
MARIA,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Jan.  9,  1815. 
JACOB,  son  of  do.,  b.  Dec.  31,  1817. 
WILLIAM,  son  of  do.,  b.  April  4,  1820. 
OLIVER  C.,  son  of  do.,  b.  July  15,  1822. 


902  HISTORY  OF  LYNDEBOROUGH 

PAINE. 
ELIZA,  dau.  of  Moses  Paine  and  Betsey  his  wife,  b.  Feb.  n, 

1823. 
I^UCY  F.,  b.  July  28,  1824. 

PEARSON. 

NATHAN,  son  of  Nathan  and  Anna  Pearson,  b.  Feb.  7,  1775. 
ANNA,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  June  29,  1770. 
TABBA,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Dee.  31,  1772. 
MOLLY,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Nov.  23,  1779. 

PERSONS. 
NANCY,  dau.  of  Samuel  Persons  and  Abigail,  his  wife,  b.  May 

24,  1794. 

SALLY,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  July  25,  1801. 
POLLY,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  June  9,  1804. 
SAMUEL,  son  of  do.,  b.  May  28,  1808. 

PHELPS. 

LYDIA,  dau.  of  Nathaniel  and  Dorcas  Phelps,  b.  Jan.  29,  1772. 
ABIGAIL,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Jan.  14,  1774. 
NATHANIEL,  son  of  do.,  b.  Dec.  12,  1775. 
AARON,  son  of  do.,  b.  July  u,  1777. 
BETHIAH,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  April  5,  1779. 
DORCAS,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  March  22,  1781. 
ASA,  son  of  do.,  b.  July  28,  1783. 
SIMEON,  son  of  do.,  b.  June  22,  1785. 
SUSANNA,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  April  18,  1788. 

RICHARDS. 

JOSEPH,  son  of  Joseph  and  Martha  Richards,  b.  April  7,  1775. 
MARTHA,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  June  24,  1777. 

RICHARDSON. 

THOMAS,  son  of  John  Richardson  and  Bethiah  his  wife,  b.  Jan. 

26,  1790. 

JOHN  BARTLETT,  son  of  do.,  b.  Oct.  14,  1791. 
JOSEPH  HERRICK,  son  of  do.,  b.  Aug.  13,  1793. 
HENRY,  son  of  do.,  b.  Sept.  6,  1795. 
GEORGE,  son  of  do.,  b.  Jan.  6,  1798. 

RICHARDSON. 

ABEL,  son  of  Zedekiah  Richardson  and  Sarah  his  wife,  b.  Feb. 
16,  1802. 


GENEALOGIES  903 

STEPHEN  BURNHAM,  son  of  do.,  b.  April  16,  1804. 

ROWE. 

JOHN,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Rowe,  b.  Aug.  30,  1766. 
JOSEPH,  son  of  do.,  b.  March  9,  1769. 
THOMAS,  son  of  do.,  b.  March  20,  1771. 
MARY,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  March  22,  1773. 
MARGARET  S.,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Jan.  i,  1775. 

RUSSELL. 

MARY  JANE,  dau.  of  James  Russell  and  Hannah  his  wife,  b. 

Dec.  5,  1816. 
RUTH  PEABODY,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Dec.    19,   1818,   d.   Feb.   14, 

1820. 

GEORGE  GOULD,  son  of  Daniel  Russell  and  Rachel  his  wife,  b. 

Feb.  21,  1785. 

HULDAH,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Sept.  n,  1786. 
JOHN  GILMORE,  son  of  do.,  b.  June  21,  1788. 
DANIEL,  son  of  do.,  b.  March  25,  1790. 
ELIJAH,  son  of  do.,  b.  April  22,  1793. 
SALLY,  dau.  of  do,  b.  May  16,  1795. 

SARGENT. 

JOHN,  son  of  John  Sargent  and  Mary  his  wife,  b.  April  17,  1814. 

MARY,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Oct.  i,  1817. 

MARY,  wife  of  John  Sargent,  d.  Oct.  25,  1820. 

TAYLOR. 

ADALINE  REBECCA  TOWN,  dau.  of  James  Taylor  and  his  wife, 

b.  Dec.  5,  1805. 
EPHRAIM,  son  of  Ephraim  Taylor  and  Rachel  his  wife,  b.  Feb. 

10,  1805. 

WARDWELL. 

WILLIAM  HENRY,  son  of  Dr.  Daniel  Wardwell  and  Sarah  his 
wife,  b.  Oct.  24,  1818. 

WILSON. 

GEORGE,  son  of  George  and  Martha  Wilson,  b.  Jan.  26,  1758. 
ABIGAIL,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  Nov.  10,  1759. 
JOSEPH,  son  of  do.,  b.  April  4,  1762. 
JOHN,  son  of  do.,  b.  Dec.  31,  1764. 


904  HISTOR  Y  OF  L  YNDEBORO UGH 

ELIZABETH,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  May  27,  1767. 
AARON,  son  of  do.,  b.  May  28,  1769. 
HANNAH,  dau.  of  do.,  b.  July  17,  1771. 

ABIAL,  son  of  Abiel  Wilson  and  Abigail  his  wife,  b.  April  7, 

1790. 
PHIU.IP  PUTNAM,  son  of  do.,  b.  Oct.  9,  1791. 


Appendix. 


THE  SONS  OP  VETERANS. 

Camp  A.  F.  Holt,  No.  16,  Sons  of  Veterans,  was  organized 
May  1 8,  1888,  by  Capt.  Bert  E.  Fisher  and  Charles  H.  Hall  of 
Dover,  N.  H.,  with  fourteen  charter  members,  whose  names 
follow  :  — 

Edward  Ross  Andy  J.  Gould  Hartwell  M.  Stephen  son 

W.  S.  Tarbell  W.  P.  Herrick  Charles  H.  Stephen  son 

J.  A.  Carkin  George  W.  Steele  Edward  I,.  Curtis 

Harvey  Boutwell  Andy  F.  Cram  Leon  E.  Hartshorn 

Nelson  S.  Cram  Richard  W.  Cram 

The  camp  was  named  for  Alfred  F.  Holt,  a  native  of  Lynde- 
borough  and  at  that  time  surgeon  general  of  the  State  of  Massa- 
chusetts. On  Feb.  12,  1889,  at  a  special  meeting  of  the  camp, 
in  the  presence  of  several  of  the  division  officers  and  a  large 
number  of  the  citizens,  Col.  Holt  presented  the  camp  with  a 
very  fine  silk  flag,  appropriately  inscribed  with  the  name,  num- 
ber and  division  of  the  camp. 

By  reason  of  the  limited  population  from  which  to  draw  mem- 
bers, this  has  always  been  one  of  the  smaller  camps  of  the  New 
Hampshire  division.  But  it  has  been  prosperous,  and  has  al- 
ways stood  well  with  the  officers  of  the  division,  receiving  a 
good  mark  at  its  inspection  each  year.  It  has'  been  an  interest- 
ing feature  in  the  memorial  day  services,  and  also  on  the  occa- 
sion of  burying  the  soldier  dead.  The  camp  holds  a  separate 
religious  service  on  memorial  day  morning  at  the  grave  of  Col. 
Holt,  and  it  also  shares  in  the  general  services  of  the  day  at 
Citizens'  Hall  and  also  at  the  cemetery. 

The  names  of  those  who  have  served  as  commanders  are  ap- 
pended, with  the  years  in  which  they  served :  — 

1888-1889  Edward  Ross  1898  W.  S.  Tarbell 

1890  W.  S.  Tarbell  1899  J.  A.  Carkin 

1891  W.  F.  Herrick  1900  Charles  R.  Carter 

1892  F.  E.  Carkin  1901-1902  Fred  A.  Holt 

1893  Edward  Ross  1903  Harry  W.  Holt 

1894  Milo  J.  Burton  1904  W.  H.  Cheever 

1895  W.  C.  Carkin  1905  Harry  W.  Holt 

1896  R.  N.  Putnam  1906  Fred  B.  Richards 

1897  C.  H.  Tarbell 

Since  its  organization  the  camp  has  mustered  about  seventy 
members. 


906  APPENDIX 

THE  WOMAN'S  RELIEF  CORPS. 

The  Woman's  Relief  Corps  No.  55,  auxiliary  to  the  Harvey 
Holt  Post  No.  15,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  was  organized 
April  1 8,  1889,  with  thirteen  charter  members. 

Although  an  organization  of  this  kind  had  previously  received 
casual  mention,  it  was  through  the  influence  of  Mrs.  Martha  M. 
Butler  that  it  received  existence.  In  the  sixteen  years  of  its 
life  it  has  gained  a  good  reputation  among  its  sister  organiza- 
tions, has  furnished  some  department  officials  and  has  been  a 
helpful  factor  in  the  town.  It  has  not  only  worked  "for  the 
good  of  the  order,"  but  has  always  been  alert  in  cases  which 
needed  assistance.  The  corps  has  raised  and  expended  for  the 
post,  for  charity  and  for  improvements  in  the  hall,  including  a 
piano,  $425.  The  corps  now  (Dec.  12,  1905)  numbers  thirty 
members.  Miss  Abbie  F.  Cram  was  the  first  president,  and  was 
several  times  re-elected.  The  following  is  the  full  roll  of  the 
presiding  officers  :  — 

Miss  Abbie  F.  Cram         Mrs.  Lizzie  G.  Tarbell     Mrs.  Jennie  A.  Holt 
Mrs.  Elsie  M.  Sargeiit     Mrs.  Camelia  Winn          Mrs.  Ella  R.  Holt 
Miss  Minnie  E.  Stacy  (Mrs.  Hadley)  Mrs.  Addie  W.  Putnam 

Mrs.  Emma  S.  Barden     Mrs.  Martha  M.  Butler  Mrs.  Abbie  A.  Ford 
Mrs.  Mary  Jane  Curtis     Mrs.  Carrie  M.  G.  Johnson 


THE  UNION  VETERANS'  UNION. 

An  organization  of  the  Union  Veterans'  Union  and  also  of  an 
auxiliary  called  the  Woman's  Veteran  Relief  Union  were  main- 
tained here  for  several  years  with  considerable  interest.  But 
their  membership  became  reduced  by  both  deaths  and  removals 
from  town,  and  they  no  longer  maintain  a  visible  organization. 


OSGOOD  CARLETON.* 

Osgood  Carleton,  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  before  1810,  was  the  leading 
teacher  of  mathematics  and  navigation  in  Boston.  He  had  pupils  from 
many  portions  of  New  England.  His  was  the  school  of  the  day  for  in- 
struction in  navigation  and  in  the  art  of  map  construction.  As  a  teacher 
and  cartographer  he  easily  held  a  foremost  rank Osgood  Carle- 
ton  enlisted  May  2,  1758,  in  the  company  of  Capt.  Aaron  Fay,  Col.  Eben- 
ezer  Nichols,  and  served  seven  months  for  the  "Reduction  of  Canada." 
Residence  given  as  Litchfield.  (Mass.  Archives,  xcvi :  p.  419.)  April  6, 
1759,  aged  eighteen  years,  and  especially  named  as  the  son  of  Jeremiah 
Carleton,  residing  in  Woburn,  he  was  attached  to  the  regiment  of  Col. 
Eleazer  Tyng,  under  command  of  Gen.  Jeffry  Amherst  for  invasion  of 

*  From  an  article  by  Rev.  An  son  Titus,  of  Somerville,  Mass.,  in  the  New  England 
Historical  and  Genealogical  Register,  Jan.,  1901. 


APPENDIX  907 

Canada.  The  Regimental  Return  was  dated  at  Dunstable  [Mass.  Arch., 
xcvi  :  378].  January  ist,  1760,  he  enlists  as  a  private  in  the  company  of 
Captain  Joseph  Newhall,  Colonel  Jacob  Bayley,  then  stationed  at  Louis- 
berg.  He  was  discharged  December  20,  1760.  [Mass.  Archives,  xvciii : 
482].  These  separate  enlistments,  however,  only  show  that  he  was^in  the 
pay  of  the  province:  This  service  brought  him  into  the  home  and  ser- 
vice of  Major-General  John  Henry  Bastide,  director  and  engineer  of  the 
king's  ordnance  at  Louisburg  and  Annapolis.  It  was  while  rendering 
service  in  the  army  of  Nova  Scotia  that  his  talent  for  mathematics  and 
his  skill  at  original  work  were  recognized,  and  he  was  made  a  part  of  the 
working  force  among  the  navigators  and  artillerists  of  the  King's  army 
and  navy.  It  is  said  that  for  five  years  young  Carleton  was  under  his 
tutelage  in  the  provinces  and  on  the  high  seas.  General  Bastide  as'chief 
engineer  of  ordinance  found  in  Carleton  a  young  man  of  large  ability  and 
capable  of  hard  work  in  engineering,  pilotage  and  navigation.  Carleton's 
residence,  with  General  Bastide,  introduced  him  to  affairs  at  I/ouisberg, 
Annapolis,  Liverpool  and  various  colonies  of  the  kingdom  in  North 

America There  is  a  brief  account  of  the  career  of  Carletou  in  the 

History  of  the  Society  of  Cincinnati  of  Massachusetts,  and  slight  mentions 
in  other  publications  where  the  subject  of  the  cartography  of  Boston  is  up- 
permost ;  but  still  there  has  been  a  scarcity  of  information  as  to  where  he 
obtained  his  wide  knowledge  of  engineering  and  navigation,  and  his  great 
skill  in  surveying.  His  residence  in  the  home  and  as  the  clerk  of  Gen- 
eral Bastide,  the  eminent  royal  engineer,  explains  it. 


Index  of  Names,  Places  and  Subjects. 


BY    REV.    D.    DONOVAN. 

The  indexes  are  quite  full.  Some  things  are,  however, 
omitted.  Of  these  are,  the  Revolutionary  Roll  ;  Tabulated 
lists  of  Town  Officers,  257-275  ;  Captains  of  the  Lafayette  Artil- 
lery ;  Tax  I/ist  of  1786;  List  of  teachers  from  printed  Town 
Reports  ;  the  Mortuary  lists  and  the  genealogies. 


Abbott,  Chas.  E.,  Mrs., 

310 

John  4th,  72 
Jonas,  536 
Josiah,   354,  486,  487, 

William,  494,  496,  533 

William  H.,   496,  497 
505,  510,  515 

William  H.,  Mrs., 506 
Adams,  Zabdiel,  Rev., 
144,  286 

&  Mudgett,  536 
Aiken,  Rev.  Silas,  297 
Allen,  Samuel,  19,  635 

Seth,  491 
Ames,  Benj.  B.,  536, 636 

Howard  B.,  236 
Anderson,  James,  238 
Andrews,  James,   485- 

487,  535 
John, 26 
Andros,   Sir   Edmond, 

10,  13 

Archer,  John,  26,  30 
Arnold,  James  G.,  238 
Asten,  Daniel,  526,  635 
Atherton,  Joshua,     81, 

158 
Atkinson,  Theodore  Jr. 

40,  69,  74,  134,  136 
Averill,  Edward,  450 
Avery,  Charles  L.,  536 

Bachellor,  Joseph,  161 

Reuben,  161 
Bacon,  Charles  R.,  237 
Badger,  David,  49,  133, 
137,    138,    141,   154, 
156-158,     161,    252, 
265,   289,    290,  310, 
354,   434,    438,  530, 
531 
John,  55,498,  587,588 


NAMES 

Robert,  133,  154,  161, 

265,  354,  53° 

Sarah,  530 

E.  B,,  Esq.,  345,  350 
Bailey,  Charles  H.,  536 

Jonathan,  449 

Levi  P.,  490,  491 
Balch,   Isaac  &  Israel, 

251 

Israel,  88 

John  J.,  530 

Joshua,  77 

Mary,  77 
Baldwin,  Mr.,  148 

Joshua,  332 

Bales,    Miss  Elsie  M., 
(Mrs.  S.  F.  Adams) 

369 

Barden,    Amos  Whit- 
ney, 509 
Barker,  Phineas,  139 

Theodore,  252 
Barnard,   Rev.  Jeremi- 
ah, 291. 

Barnes,  George,  422 
George  R.,  536,  540 
Nathan,  342 
Barr,  Col.  Samuel,  145, 

283 
Barrett  (Place),  Oliver, 

435,  458 

Barren,  Jonathan,   635 
Moses,  484 
Samuel,  155,  157,  172, 

175- 

Capt.  William,  154, 
158,  159,  161,  167, 
265,  272,  273,  289, 
31°,  354,  395-397, 
434,  475,  530,  588- 
590,  628 

Barrow,  Elbert,  525 
Bartell,  John,  26,  30 
Robert,  26 


Bartlett,  John,  30 

Lorenzo  D.,  499,  631, 
632,  636 

Nathaniel  42-44 

Robert,  30 
Batch  elder,  Daniel,  83 

Eben,  527 

Emerson,  528 

George,  528 

John  C.,  528 

Joseph,  154      4 

Nathaniel,    154,    157, 
161,  433,500,  540 

Reuben, 154 

Sarah,  526 

Batchellor.Albert  S.  68 
Bates,  Col.Delevan,  287 
Batten,  John  and  Rich- 
ard, 251,  536 

Richard  77 

Richard,  Jr.,  237 
Beadle,  Thomas,  26,  30 
Beal,  John,  26 

Tarrant  M.,  413,  506 
Beasom,  John,  485,  518 

John  Jr.,  227,  231,267, 

436,  5*4 

Philip,  485,  486,  514 
Sarah,  518 
Beede,    Rev.    Thomas, 

291 

Belknap,  Jeremy,  3,  8 
Berry,  Col.  43,  46 
Betton,  (James)  81,9111 
Bevens,    Edward,    Jr., 
134,    137,    138,  140, 
141,  149,  483,  527 
Edward,  354 
Joseph,  483 
Lizzie,  492 
Sally,  527 

Bickford,  Mr.,  36, 48,  59 
Edward,  154 
John,  483,  485 


9io   • 


INDEX 


Birne,  Mrs. Martha,  483 
Bishop,  Frank  J.,  506 

Mrs.  George,  510 
Bixby,  Ephraim,  486 
Oliver,  224,  225,  267, 
292,  299,  312,    408, 
409,  444,   445,  530, 
531,  631 

Blaisdell,  John,  488 
Blanch,  Richard,  26 
Blanchard,  Amaziah, 

538 

Asa,  332,  447 
Asa,  Jr.,  528 
Daniel,  332 
Elmer  E.,  437»  5*3 
Col.  Joseph,    19,  20, 

40,  43,44, 51,  52,56, 
70,  71,  73.  77,   235, 
45-48,  68 

Joseph,  Jr.,  47 
Joseph  A.,  435,  436, 

493. 507 
Mrs.  Joseph  A.,  508, 

512 
Lieut.    Jotham,   266, 

272,  322,  447,  528 
William  M.,  237 
Blaney,    Maj.    Joseph, 

25,  27-29,  44,  45,  48, 

97,  98,  482,  483, 486, 

496,  534 
Capt.   William,    272, 

458,  485,  496,  590 
Blood,  Austin,  238 
Gen.  Francis,  252 
George  H.,  517 
Hiram  F.,  507 
Boardman,  434 
Daniel,  446,  537 
Thomas,  491,  537 
Boffee,  John,   162,  485, 

487,  535 
Melchizedeck,  35,36, 

41,  133,    137,    141, 
145,   281,   482,  485, 

487,  535 
Lieut.  Thomas,    149, 

151,  485,  488,   498, 
519 

Bolles,  Matthew,  350 
Bolster,  Rev.W.H.,  306 
Boone,  John  W.,  239 
Borland's  Farm 

Francis,  72,  73 
Bosworth,  George  W., 

238 

Boutelle,  460 
Bouton,  Nathaniel,  156 
Boutwell,  Abby  J.,  501 
Abram,  237,  533 
Asa,  155 
Belle  L.,  532 


Benjamin,  225,  237 
Charles  R.,  140,  458, 

459,  532, 533.  545 
James,  143,  152,  153, 
237,     265,    271-273, 
324,  354,   484,  485, 
488,  500,  533,  537 
Nathan  B.,  237 
Nehemiah,  267,   299, 
323,   328,   333,  458, 
459,  467,  532 
Newton,  224,  225 
Rodney  C.,  444 
William,  230 
Rev.  William  Thurs- 

ton,  237,  302 
James,    Rodney     C., 
Nehemiah,  Benjamin 
J.,    Charles   R.,    and 
Mrs.  Charles  R.,  533 
Brothers,  545 
Bowditch,  Capt.  Joseph 

26,  30,  36,  48 
William,  26 
Bowen,  John,  26 

William  H.  (farm) 538 
Bowers,  Captain,  30,  48 

Josiah,  486 
Bowles,  John,  52 
Boyku,  Adolphus,  239 
Boylston,  Josephine, 

Mrs.,  309 

Boynton,  Richard,  139 
Brackett,  Cyrus,  239 
Bradford,    Rev.    Eph. 
Putnam,   291,    297, 
299,  300,  515 
James  C.,  516 
Capt.  John,  148,  235, 

485,  487,  515 
Rebecca,  45I»452 
Sally,  515 
Thomas,  332,  351,410, 

515 

Braman,  Rev.  I.,  291 
Britton,  Edward,  26 
Broad,  Clifton  S.,  636 
Brooks,  Isaac,  368 
Brown,  Allen  A.,  536, 

537 
Brown,  Rev.  Caleb,  338 

Clara  &  Harriet,  510 

Ira  R.,  539 

Leonard  G.,   539,  632 

Nathan,  500,  536 

Robert  R.,  539,  632 
Browne,  Allen,  226 

Rev.  Donald,  305 

William,  69 
Bruce,  John,  368 

Sarah,  363 
Bruno,  Louis,  237 


Bryant,  Rev.  Albert, 

502 
Buck,  Sewall  M.,  437, 

5i8 
Bullard,  John  A.,  529 

Edward,  633 
Bullock.Benjamin,  491, 

635 

Burnam,  James,  161 
Bnrnham,  Israel  P.,  337 

Israel,  447 

John  W.,  534 
Burns,  Charles  H., Esq. 

369 
Burroughs,  Rev.  David 

343 
Burton,  etc.,  54 

Andrew,  435 

Dexter,  226,  518 

James,  634 

John,  270 

John  H.,  518 

Jonathan, 484 

Milo,  509,  511 

Roy,    119,    510,    511, 
514,  5i8 

William  A.,  497 

William  W.,  518 
Butler,  Charles  M.,  225, 
412 

Mrs.  Charles  M.,  506 

George,  458,  508 

Horace,  519 

Jacob,   231,  267,  284, 
300,   324,  361,   363, 

436.450,519 
Dr.    Jacob    Newton, 

519 

John  D.,  539 
John  R.,  237 
Jonathan,  206,  274, 

451,  486,  519 
Jonathan  H.,  225 
Butterfield,  David,  494, 

539,  633 

Samuel,  68,  161 
Butterfield  &  Fisher, 

81,  82,  91 
Buttrick,  Alban,  517 

Alvaro,  457,  5 13 
Buxton,    The   pasture, 
494 

Campbell,  Charles,  235 

Henry,  235 
Car  kin  Homestead,  538 

Aaron,  498,  538 

Charles,  448 

David,    (Place),   507 

53.7 

David,  Jr.,  225,  235 
Fred  A.,  507,  508,  515 


INDEX 


911 


John,  67,  133,  139' 
162,  460,  487,  496, 
526,  538 

John  A.,  462,  508,  510, 
5H,  520 

John  C.,  237,  238,  507 

WillC.,  462,508,510, 

Sii 
Carleton,    David,    149, 

486,  487 

Dudley,  299,  538 
Eunice  (Taylor),  wid. 

485,  487 

Lieut.  Jeremiah,  272, 

289,  354.  463.  5°° 
Jeremiah,    137,     139, 
157,    158,   162,   486, 

487,  539.  629 
John,   225,    445,   523, 

489 

Miriam,  489 
Osgood,  69,  70,  72,  73, 

77,    90,      118,     145, 

146,   484,   488,  590- 

592,  "906 
Timothy,  149 
Carr,  Charles,  525 
Carson  (Place),  118 
Adam,  482 
Alexander,  539 
Frank,  434 
John,    332,   354,    355, 

483,  494 
William,     134,      137, 

139.  273,  483,  538 

William,  Jr.,  152,  161 
Case,  John,  252 
Castine  (Baron),  10,  n 
Chamberlain,  Asa,  230, 
231 

Benjamin,  225 

Daniel,  230,  489,  524 

Eliza,  533 

John,  524 

Jonathan,    149,     161, 

487,  497 ,  523,  524 
Jonathan,     Jr.,    485, 

486,  496 

Joseph,  230,  231,  332 
Joseph,  Jr.,    448,  454, 

460,  "  Brick  Joe" 
Joseph,  513,  519, 

"Baptist  Joe  " 
Mr.  (Rufus?),  494 
Nathaniel,  230 
Rufus,  419,  448,  460, 

496,   497.   499-   513. 

524,  525,  538,  634 
Samuel,  460,  486 
Silas,  226 
Walter,  238 
Chandler,  David,  71 
David  Jr.,  28 


Col.  Samuel,  21,  22, 

28 
Chase,  Harry  R.,   527, 

528 

Mrs ,  528 
Cheever,    Herbert    A., 

505»  507,  509 
Ward    N.,    410,    496, 

497,    503,    505»  5o6, 
5H 

Willis  H.,  507,  510 
Mrs.  W.  H.  (Carrie), 

420 

Chenery,  Bertha,  525 
John,  534 
Moses,  530,  635 
Susie,  525 
Childs,  Rev.  A.  C.,  304 

Rev.  Simeon,  368 
Christie  (Place),  John 

K.,  536 
Churchill,  Prof.  J.  W., 

305,  306 
Miss   Ellen    B.,   429, 

508 

Chute,  J.  W.,  528 
Claggett,  Rev.  Erastus 
B.,  298,  301,  302, 
310,  363,  369,  383, 
391-394,  417,  480, 
520 

Clark,  A.  F.,  274 
Asa,  539, 

Rev.  B.  F.,  299,  458 
Benjamin  Jones,  238, 

532 

Daniel,  488 
David   D.,    428,   538, 

539 

Deborah  (Rand),  633 

Francis,  593 

Rev.  Frank  G.,  14, 
32,  141,  276,  280, 
281,  283,  286,  288, 
291,  292,  298,  301, 
304,  308,  309,  3ign, 
408,  428,  429,  457, 

524.  539 

Gorham  B.,  239 
Hannah  Deborah 

(Mrs.  Gilmore)  593, 

594 

Capt.  Henry,  274,  533 
James  I/.,  332,539.636 
John,  52,  226,  354, 
(Place)  536,  593 
Jonathan,    408,     489, 

536 

Capt.  Peter,  47,  154, 
T55>  T57>  T58,  160, 
208,  245,  246,  247, 
249,  251,  272,  274, 
289,  445,  455,  458, 


487,  490,    S32,   536, 
537,  592,  593,  636 

Clarks,  434 

Dea.  Peter,   310,  330, 

490,  5i8,  537 
Robert,  443 
Clark,  Sarah  (Barren), 

633 
Sarah  (Putnam),  489, 

593 
Capt.   William,    273, 

282,  302,   323,  328, 

329,  408,  442,  537 
William  H.,  453,  458, 

532 

Clay,  Samuel,  26 
Cleaves,  William,    255, 

454 

Clement,  Charles,  512 
Cleveland,  Rev.  D.  M., 

343 
Clough,  Joseph,  27,  30, 

36,48 
Mrs.  dough  (Lynn), 

352,  5<>8 
Mr.  M.  C.,  531 
Cloutman,  Thomas,  26 
Cobbitt,  Mrs.  Hannah, 

48 

Cochran,  Jonathan,  226 
Col.  W.  H.  D.,  369 
W.  K.,  446,  537 
Codner,  Benjamin,   26, 

29 

Christopher,  26 
Colburn,  451,  457 

B.  W.,  514 
Colby,  Mrs.,  507 

John  F.,  507 
Collier,  Peter,  26 
Colson,  Dorcas,  420 

James,  508,  510,  511 
Conant,  Albert  S.,  236, 

495,  5o8,  510 
Coomes,  Michael,  26 
Corey,  Thomas  S.,  363 
Cornwallis,  Gen.,  160 
Coston,    Ebenezer  and 
Elizabeth,  140,  485, 

533 

Cragin,  Daniel,  457,5I3 
Cram,  Abby  F.,  906 
Albert,  460,  511,  513, 

525 

Andy,  505,  515 

Azro  D.,  235,  436,  517 

Benjamin,  38,137-141, 
143,  Dea.,  156,  231, 
265,  272,  279,  281, 
310,  354,  436,  485, 
487,  488,  523,  535 

Benjamin,    Jr.,    496, 


912 


INDEX 


Benjamin,  Daniel, 
Olive  (Chamber- 
lain), 459 

Daniel,  225,  231,  289, 

332.  338,  513 
David,    133,  137,  273, 

494.  526 
David,  226 
Elizabeth,  526 
Everett,  239,  510 
George  M.,  512 
Gideon,  267,  351 
Hannah,  231 
Henry,  332,  351,  457, 

489,  525 
Hiram,  231 
Huldah,  523 
Irene,  511 
Israel,  492,  518 
Jacob,    133,     I37-I39. 

157.   265,   273,   278, 

282,  354,  485,  526 
James,  525 
James  S.,  599 
James,  Jr.,    or    2nd, 

332,  351,   457.   489, 

525 
John,   31-36,  38,  230, 

277.  452,  453.  47i, 
482,  497,  499,  599 

John,  Jr.,  38,  516, 
522,  523 

Capt.  Jonathan,    38, 

67,    i33»    137,    138, 

142,    143,    161,  278, 

279,    281,   436,  485, 

487,  523,  524.  526 
Jonathan,  Jr.,  60,  281, 

482,  526,  533 
Joseph,   38,   55,    226, 

332,   35 J>   487,  523- 

525 

Lewis,  410 
Cram  &  Daniels,  410, 

489 
Louise  (Mrs.  John  A. 

Putnam),  525 
Luther,  118,345,  388, 

419,  448,  492,  522 
Nathan,  162,  487 
Nelson,  518 
Orrin,  350,  508,  517 
Peter,  254,   439,   499, 

525 

Phebe,  487,  497,  523 
Polly,  156 
Rachel,  526 
Richard,  516 
Sarah,  487,  523 
Solomon,  88,  99,  161, 

328,  332,   337,  485, 

505.   517,    525,  537, 

538 


Uriah,   149,  273,  328, 

489,  525,  526 
Cressy,  Andrew,  77,251 

Widow,  473,  492,  533 
Crocker,  E.  B.,  504 
Cromwell,  Oliver,  5 
Crosby,  Benjamin,  462, 
5i8 

Rev.  Jaazaniah,  291 

Jacob,  457,  513 

Joseph,  95,  96 
Cummings,  Rev.  Chas., 
338,  339 

Charles  P.,  492 

C.  J.,   454,   474,  530, 

635 

Mary  E.  512 
Nathan  (Place),  540, 

637 

Mrs.  Nathan,  540 
Dea.  S.  S.,   103,  344, 

5" 
Timothy  &  wife,  29, 

3.6,  48 
Currier,  Rev.   Joshua, 

340 
Curtis,  Asher,  234,  312, 

537.  538 

Mrs.  Asher,  469 
Asher  2nd,  312,  450 
Betsey  Ann,  312,  468, 

469 

Edward  W.,  538, 
Eli,  454,  472,  636 
Eli,  Jr.,  226 
Eli  Clark,  Dea.,   310, 

312,   434,  454,  472, 

481,  492,  538,  539 
Frances,  538 
Hiram,  234,  312 
Israel,  312,  539 
John,  515 
Kilburn  S.,  312,  499, 

538 

Levi,  337,  494 
Mary  Jane,  505 
Molly,  492 
Sally,  538 
William  W.,  312,  409, 

532,  538,  636 
Cutter,  Mrs.,  508 

Dale  or  Deal,  John,  Sr. 

35.   36,   38,   49.  54, 
278 
Mrs.    Thomas,     514, 

517 

Damon,  Warren,  492 
Dana,  Samuel,  Esq.  325 
Dane,  Ezra,  353 
Danforth,     Edgar    A.( 

161,   166,    169,    259, 

419,  5io 


Mrs.  E.  A.,  388 
Simon  O.,  363 
Daniel ,  Stephen,    26 
Stephen,  Jr.,  26,  30 
Daniels    &    Cram    (in 

business),  410 
Dascomb,   88,  329,  436, 
496,  A  Revolution- 
ary Soldier 
James,  Jr.,  83 
Luther,  211 
Polly,  368 

Davis,  David  A.,  363 
Hezekiah,  411 
Rev.,  J.  G.,  303 
Myra,  535 
William,  235 
Day,  Isaac,  154,  161 
Dearborn,   Dr.    S.    G., 

631,  632 
Deland,  George,  30,  49, 

52 

Densmore,  Francis,  49 
Denten,  Ebenezer,  162 
Derby,  Charles,  26 
Roger,  26,  28,  29 
William,  26 
Dickey,  David  G.,  274, 

434,  442,  53° 
William,  68 
Dike,  Benjamin,  151 
Dix,  Betsey,  527 
Dixey,  Samuel,  26 

William,  26,  30 
Dodd,  John,  26 
Dodge,     Rev.    Austin, 

306 

Josiah,  98,  252 
Dolliver,  Edward,  513 
Capt.  John  and  wife, 

502,  514,  536 
John  B.,  235 
John  E.,  5IO-512 
Richard  N.,  225 
Samuel,  514,  531 
William  H.,  510,  514, 

5i8 

Donnell,  James,  539 
Donohue,  Col.  Michael 

T.,  236 

Donovan,  Rev.  Dennis, 
304,  3°5,  343,  388, 
520 
Prof.  Winfred  Nichols, 

344 

Dowd,  John,  29 
Draper,  David  S.,  514 

Hannah,  231 

Harry,  508 

James  C.  P.,  519 

Jotham  P.,  235 

Leon, 519 

Thomas  J.,  514 


INDEX 


William,  251 

Willis  H.,  508 
Duncklee,  Mr.,  408 

Clintie,  534,  539 

Edward  W.,  434 

Francis,  231 

George,  536 

Hezekiah,  162 

Isaac  L.,  534,  539 

William,  520,  539 

William  R.,  234 
Dustan,    Rev.   George, 

302 

Dutton,*  Benj.,  284,491, 
540 

Mrs.    Benjamin,    58, 
60,  435,  533 

Betsey  E.,  540 

Rev.  Chas.  H.,  305 

Jacob,  251 

Josiah,  283 

Mynard,  274 

Reuben,  353,  433,  491, 
54°,  635 

Samuel,  230 

Capt.    William,    251, 

325,  327,  328,  518 
Dyer,  Samuel,  537 


Eastman,    G.  W.,   446, 

457,46o,  514 
Eaton,  Charles  F.,  460 
Frank,  513 
Warren,  457,  513 
Rev.   W.    H.,    D.D., 

410 

Ellinwood,  161 
Ira  S.,  337 

Joseph,  354,  492,  526 
Samuel,  337 
Elliott,    Rev.    Joseph, 
338 

Elson, ,  30 

Emerson,  Rev.  Daniel, 

145,  279,  280,  286 
Rev.  Joseph,  145,  279, 

280,  286 

Emery,  Clintie  A.,  365 
Rev.  Enville  J.,  341, 

342 

Harlan  E.,  365,  508 
John,  504,  509,  516 
Mrs.  John  (AnnM.), 

5°9 

Morris  M.,  508,  520 
Mrs.,  519 

English,  Joseph,  26,  30 
Philip,  26,  30 

*There  was  a  also  a  Reed 
Dutton,  whose  old  cellar  is 
east  of  Mr.  Sewell  M. Buck's 
place.  P.  537 


Epes  or  Epps,  Capt. 
Benjamin,  88,  272, 
322,  325,  487,  537 

Col.  Daniel,  26,  27. 
28,  30,  487,  536 

Daniel,  Jr.,  26,  28,  29, 

45,  48,  59 
Francis,  251,  289,  536, 

627,  628 
George  D.,  448 
Joseph,  93,  94 
Joseph,  2nd,  329 
Samuel,  28 
Everett,  Rev.  Samuel, 

338 


Farrar,  Rev.  Stephen, 

145 

Mrs.  Martha  M.,  420 
Fearing,  Hawkes,  235 
Fellows,  Col.  Enoch  Q. 

236 

Felton,  John,  29,  36 
Finning,  Daniel,  235 
Flardy,  Edward,  30,  49 
Fletcher,  Oliver,  48 
Philip,  154,  161 
Robert,  62,  63,  68-70, 
73,  76,  77,  81, 82,  86, 

90,  94 

Simeon,  161 
Thomas,  30,  48 
Flynn,  Jacob,  93,  94,  95 
Follansbee,  George  R., 

236 

Forten,  Thomas,  26 
Foster,  Daniel,  29 
David,  26 
Jonathan,  26 
Fowle,  Charles  P.,  226 
John,  28,  30 
Capt.  John,  Jr.,   30, 

33,48 

Fox,  John,  239 
Franklin,  John  A.,  238 
French,  Benjamin,    79, 

80 

Fuller,  Andrew,  Esq., 
94,  98,  153,  154,  158, 
161 

Andrew,  Jr.,  534 
Benjamin,  534 
Moses,  534 
Archelaus,  459 
James,  230 
Furgason,  Archeball,26 


Gage,  David  (Mission- 
ary), 369 

David  and  wife,  600 
Mrs.  David,  506,   507 


Rev.  David,  342 

John,  504 

John  and  David,  445, 

457,  513,  534 
Horace  D.,  536 
Gallden,  John,  235 
Gannett,  Rev.  J.  H.,342 
Ganson,  John.  37 
Gardner,    Ebenezer, 

149,  322 
Frank,  490 
John,  26,  28,  29,  30 
Gay,  Joel,  312 
Giddings,  Luke,  635 
Gilchrist,  D.,  634 
Gilman,  Gov.  John  T., 

254 
Gilmore,  Gen.  Quincy 

A.,  235 

Glover,  John,  142,  484 
Goddard,  Percy,  531 
Goffe,     Col.  John,  63, 

145 
Goldthwaite,  Obed  M., 

353 

Phebe,  353 

Goodhue,  Benjamin,  26, 
30,  45,  48,  59,  80,  88, 
96 
Stephen,  78-80,  96 

Goodman, .  442 

Goodridge,  Dea.  Benj., 
300,   360,   446,  459, 

49° 

Charles,  536 

Israel    Hutchinson, 
273,    299,  332,   360, 
442,  443,  53°,  532 

John  C.,  310,  445,  446, 

536,  537 
John  H.,  386,  445,458, 

459,  490,  529,  536 

Sarah  C.,  536 

Rev.  Sewall,  80,  8r, 
83,  84,  85,  87-90,  93- 
95,  97-100,  ^S'^S, 
155,  157,  285,  286, 
290,  298,  306,  307, 
310,  329,  330,  485- 
487,  501,  530,  534 

Mrs.  Sewall  and  fam- 

ttji  33° 

Gordon,  William,  325 
Gorges  and  Mason,   i, 

2,  3,  4,  5,  6-8,  "i  I2 
Gould,  Mr.,  283 
Major  Daniel,  83,  84, 
88,  89,   90,   92,   93, 
95-100,     154,      157, 
161,  209,   312,    322, 
325,  327,   328,   408, 
454,  459,   5oi,    531- 
533 


914 


INDEX 


George,    35,    36,   48, 

89,    133.    137.    141, 
142,    145,   324,  408, 

498,  501,  531,  532 
Jacob  S.,  460 
John,  289,  531 
Richard,  89,  149,  161 
William  H.,  536 
Benjamin,   482,    517, 

539 

Humphrey,  513 
Gowen,  John,  488 
Grant  (Place) .  493 
Arthur,  535 
David  C.,  68, 149,  161, 
223,  231,    284,   417, 

445,  49°.  525»  544 
James,  273,  274,   485, 

492,531.535 
John, 488 
Miss,  363 

William  H.,  Esq., 
161,  205,  223,  224, 
230,  259 

Graves.  Moses,  48 
Gray,  Matthew,  353 
Greeley,  Rev.E.H.,  304 
Green,  71 

George  E.,  236 
Gregg,  Capt.  William, 

231 

Griffin,  Robert,  240 
Grimes,  David  W.,  224, 

225 
Crush  or  Grnshe'.Thos. 

154 

Gyles,  John,  Jr.,  26,  28, 
30 


Hackett,  Mr.,  534 
Hadley  Hill,  108 
Bros.'  Mill,   114,  115, 

45i 

Mrs.  Abigail,  515 
Chase,  443,  518 
Mrs.  Chase,  465 
Dana,  512 
Franklin,    225,    340, 

434,  533 

George    Willis    or 
(Mrs.  Minnie  S.), 

4H,  5ii 

Joshua,  133,  154,  161 

Levi  P.,  505 

Josh,  Chase,  Frank- 
lin, Levi  P.  and 
wife,  530 

Mark,  519 

Wilkes  H.,  534 
Haggett    (Place),    494, 

539 
J-,  102 


John  &  Joseph,  heirs, 

539 

Hails,  Israel,  160 
Hale,   Col.  John,    145, 
283 

Martin,  234 
Haley,  Frank,  510 
Hall,  Samuel  R.,  368 

Edward,  509,  510 

Edward  G.,  539 
Hallett,  Joseph,  26,  30 

F.  H.,  516 

Hamblet,  Hezekiah,i6i 
Hammond,  272 
Hancock,  Mr.,  71 
Hanley,  Patrick,  537 
Hardy,  Rev.  Owen  E., 

305,  533,  539,  637 
Rev.     Eliphalet     J., 

305,  454,   525,   539, 

637 
Rev.    Mrs.     Sabrina 

Jennings,  305 
Albert,  332,  410,  411, 

523 

Mr.,  493 
Harlow,  Rev.  Lincoln, 

302 
Harper,  William,   456, 

457 
Harriman,  Col.  Walter, 

236 

Harris,  Benjamin,  236 
Nathan  S.,  238 
Oliver,  537 
Hartman,  John,  240 
Hartshorn,    David   P., 

460,  522 
George  M.,  529 
Jeremiah,  506 
John,  526,  539 
John,  2nd,  (105,  225?), 
332,  344,  349,  445, 
520,  527.  533 
John  A.,  234 
Miss  Lizzie,  522 
Miss  Marion,  420 
Micah,  116,  434,  435, 

454,  539 
Ruby,  506 
Samuel,  224,  225,332, 

337,  344,  361,   447, 

526 
Samuel  Newell,  388, 

539,  636 

Heirs  of  S.  N.,  539 
Sumner  S.,  509 
Mrs.  Susanna  P.,  226 
Timothy,  95,  96 
Harwood,  Andrew,  119, 

447,  526 

Andrew,  Jr.,  526 
John,  96 


Otis,  239 

Hasseltine,    Nathan, 
488 

Nathan,  Jr.,  495,  496 
Hatch,  Mrs.  C.  G.,  528 

Dr.  G.  W.,  622 
Hawes,  David,  409 
Hawthorne,  Robert,309 

Mrs.  Robert,  501 
Hayford,  Mrs.  Minnie, 

5" 

Heald,  Rev.  J.  H.,  304 
Heath,  Mrs.  Addie,  510 
Hemingway,  Mr.,  280 
Hendley,  Thomas,  27 
Henderson,  Daniel,  537 
Herrick,  Benjamin  G., 
302,  312,  434,  440, 

492,  534,  535 
Edward,  226,  227,  523 
Indiana,  295,  534 
Dr.  Israel,  252,    298, 

299,  310,   333,   360, 
475,  53ri   533,   534, 
547,  570-574,  635 

John,  539 

Joseph,  153,  154,  157, 

246,  268,  272 
Lafayette,  512,  534 
William  J.,  224,  225, 

409,  53*,  532 
Herrick  &  Donnell, 

539 
Hicks,  Maj.  Joshua,  44, 

45,  48,  52,  483 
Hildreth,  Jotham,  273, 

300,  312,   360,   388, 
437,  452,   513,   634, 
637 

Jacob,  408 

Hildreth   &    Dunck- 

lee,  408 

Hill,  Abel,  539 
Asa  (Place),  537,  224, 

225 
Abel   &   Asa,    heirs, 

537 

Dea.  Asa,  310 

Rev.  Ebenezer,  291 

Fred,  530 

Jonathan,  36 

Miss  Martha,  363 

Sylvester,  363 
Hilliard,  David,  26,  30 

Edward,  26,  30 

Joseph,  26,  30, 
Hillman,  Rev.   A.   T., 

306 

Hilt,  Miss  Lizzie,  535 
Hilton,  Edward,  4 
Hine,  William,  26 
Hobson,  Capt.  John,  21, 
22 


INDEX 


915 


Hodgeman,    Samuel, 
493'  502,  517,  636 
Elnathan,  236 
Hodgen,  Arthur  W.,528 
Hodsdon,  E.  P.,  634 
Holden    (Place),    458, 

5i8 

Henry  E.,  537 
Warren,  637 
Holland,  John,  146,  147 

Stephen,  Esq.,  271 
Holley,   William,    206, 

436 
Hollingsworth,  Joshua 

26 

Holmes,  Daniel,  490 
Holt,  Abigail,  353 
Andy,  238,   440,   452, 
'477,  492,   503,    535, 

554 

Betsey,  447 
Charles  Henry,   412, 

413,  440,  451,  505 
Mrs.  Charles  Henry, 

506,  521 
Charles  Harvey,  527, 

539 
David,  273,  492,  534, 

535 

David  K.,  332 
Dexter  K.,   526,   528, 

530 
Dorcas  A.,  352,   503, 

505.  5o6 
Effie,  521 
Eli,  226,  337 
Emery,  497,  523,  524 
Flora  M.,  510 
Fred,  467,  535 
George  W.,  411,   506 
Harvey,  234,  521,  523, 

524 

Harvey,  523,  489,  535 
Israel  Porter,  528 
Jason,    236,  440,  511, 

636,  515 
John   Fletcher,    102, 

353,  489,   5io,   521, 

523,  524 
Joshua,  72,  73 
Lorenzo,  521 
Mary  A.,  510 
Nathan,  279 
Oliver,  493,  535 
Persons  S.,  274,  539 
Simeon,  83 
William,  48,  133,  226 
William,  410,503,520, 

534,  535 
William  Persons, 526, 

527,  539 

Hooper,  Robert,  48, 2 70, 
486,  487,  530 


Hosmer,  Stephen,  Jr., 

23,  24 
Houghton,  Mrs.  Phebe 

G.,  516 
Houston  (Corner),   76, 

77 

Caleb,  308,  601 
Ira,  267,433,481,491, 

635 

John,  311 

Samuel,  154,  Lieut., 
161,  209,  225,  491 
540,  629 

Capt.  Samuel,  272,  Dea. 
310,  330,  433,   491, 
540,  629 
Howard,  Samuel,   230, 

255,  434 
Silas,  255,  434 
Joseph,  447,  454 
Howe,  Asa,  96 
Hubbard,  Rev.  H.  G., 

302   342,  520 
Hunt,  Joel,  26 
Kurd,  History.of  Hills- 
borough      County, 
368 
Hussey,  Rev.  C.  S.,352, 

506 
Hutchinson,  Mrs.  Ann, 

5,  16 

Mrs.  Charles  L.,  528 
Ebenezer,  93,  94,  536 
Everett,  492 
George,  139 
Rev.  G.  W.,34i,  349, 

352,  353,  520 
Isabel,  526 
Col.  Israel,  76,  82, 

Sketch  of,  585,  586 
James,  139,   151,  485, 

487 

John,    134,    137,    138, 
140,  Sergt.,141,143, 

539 

Nehemiah,  149 
Samuel,  151 

Ingalls,    Ephraim,    26, 

3°,  36,  48 
Isaac,  Henry,  224 
Ives,  Rev.  H.  S.,  305 

James  I.,  King  of  Eng- 
land, 12 

James  II. ,  King  of  Eng- 
land, 10,  13 

Jackson,  Bartholomew, 

26,  30,  Capt.  49 
George,  26 

Jaffrey,  George,  40,  69, 
7i,  72,  74,  75,  87, 
89 


Jaquith,  Cyrus,  531 
Jeunison,  Rev.  Mr.,  299 
Jensen,     Lorenzo     P., 

349-  509 

Jewett,  Rev.  Mr.,  297 
Johnson,  Adam,  67,  94, 
98,    134,    463,    485- 
487,  537>  538 
Elizabeth,  353 
Francis,  606,  512 
James,  139,  140,  537 
John,    134,    142,   279, 

281,  485,  537,  538 
Joseph  A., Esq.,  10511. 
223,  224,   225,   419, 
45i,  458,  506,  512 
Rachel,  486,  537 
Jones,  Dr.  Benjamin, 
246,     272-274,    300, 
322,  324,   328,   330, 
332,   486,  491,   531, 
535,  540,  622,  627 
Benjamin,  Jr.,  225 
George  T.,  238 
Joseph,  273,  299,  360, 

534 
Nathan,  299,  443,  444, 

Nathaniel,  531,  631 
Rev.  Newton,  297,302 
Samuel,  274,  477,  530, 

531 
Dr.  William  A.,    225, 

299,  3io,  439,   440, 
477,  532 
Dea.    William,    443, 

444,  479,  53i 
Joslin,  Benjamin,   492, 

508 

Frank,  532,  533,  535, 
Henry  H.,    116,   492, 

535,  540 
Levi,  409 
Oscar,  492 

Karr  (Place),  437 
Miss  Elizabeth,  363 
James  H.,   530,    531, 

534 

John  H.,  238 

Mary,  353 

Samuel,  224,  225 
Kelley,  Hugh,  30 
Keyes,  Joseph,  146,  147 

Charles,  530 
Kidder  (Place),  512 

Elizabeth  R.,  512 

Ephraim,  512,  494 

Franklin,  512 

John,    133,    137,    154, 
161,   354,   485,  512, 

534; 
John,  Jr.,  252 


INDEX 


Capt.  Jonas,  158,  246, 
268,  273,  306,  303, 
463,484,539,  Sketch 
of,  601-603 

Rev.  Joseph,  145,  286 

Joseph,  295,  534 

Manley,  536 

Nelson,  532 

"Young  "  Phineas  C. 
224,  225 

"Middle"  Phineas, 
535,  636 

"Old"  Phineas,  535, 
(A    Revolutionary 
pensioner),  206 
Killam,  Benjamin,  247, 

323 
Mrs.  Hannah  (Clark) 

633 

Joseph,  252 
Samuel,  252 
Kimball,  George,  532 
Isaac,  225 
Rev.  Ivory,   300,  301, 

310 

Reuben,  251 
Kings  of  England 
Charles  I.,  53 
Charles  II.,  53 
James  II.,  10 
George  III.,  38 
William  III.,  31 
King  Philip,  22,  24 
King,  Capt.  Daniel,  26 
John,  25 

Capt.    Samuel    and 
others,     15,    21-25, 
28,  29,  31,  58 
Capt.  William,  26,  30 
Kittridge,  Rev.,  of 

Lyme,  N.  H.,  417 
Knapp,  Isaac,  26,  30 

James,  26,  30 
Knight,  Ephraim,  369, 

389 
Knollys,  Hansard,  5,  6 

Lakin,  Abel,  497 

Amaret,  462 

Joshua  S.,  462 

Thomas,  497 
Lambert,  Jonathan,  30 

Joseph,  27,  30 

Samuel,  27 
Lane,  Rev.  Asa,  342 
Langdell,  William,  234 

239 
Mark  D.,  518 

Larkharn,  Rev.,    Epis- 
copal minister,  6 

Lawrence,  413,  495,  521, 
522,  635 

Leacher,  Joseph,  239 


Lee,  Jeremiah,  487,  535 
Sergt.  William,  151, 

1 66 
Capt.  Wm.  &  Sarah, 

488 
Capt.  William,    603- 

604 

L/egroe,  John,  26 
Lehman,   Leman    or 
Lemmon,  Abraham 
38 

Dr.,  270 
Samuel,  35,  38 
Samuel,  Jr.,  482 
Lendall,  James'  Heirs, 

48 
Leverett,   Thomas    H., 

225 
Lewis,  Aaron,  154,   161 

(Sergt.) 
Capt.  Aaron,  251, 310, 

322,  328,  330,  434 
Benjamin,  485 
Cyrus,  368 
David,  289 
Isaac,  455 
Joseph,  455 

Livermore,  Rev.  Jona- 
than, 145,  286 
Matthew,  40 
Col.  Thomas,  238 
Loring,  William,  536 
Lovejoy,  William,  443 
Lovewell,  Major,  37 
Lowe,  Everett  E.,  526 
Fred,  539 
Hattie,  521 
Mrs.  Isaac,  350 
Isaac,  515,  516 
John,  521 

Lucas,  Luke  A.,  513 
or  Manual  Place,  435 
Ledge,  105 
Lund,  Phineas,  96 
Lynch     (Place),     422, 

538 

Franklin,  455 

John,  513 

Robert  K.,  538 
Lynde,    Benjamin  Jr., 
Esq.,  26 

Treasurer  of  the 
Salem-Canada  Pro- 
prietors, 28,  30,  44, 
45,  48,  49,  52,  57,  59, 
64,  65,  67-72,  74,  75, 
77,  78,  81,  86,  140, 
270,  277,  278,  281, 
289,  292,  297,  483, 
484,  485,  487,  531, 
535,537,539.  Sketch 
of  Life,  581,582,583 


Mack,  Miss  P.  J.,  363 
Mackey,  Daniel,  483 
Macomber,  Rev.  S.  B., 

342,  520 
McAllister,  George  S., 

528 

Lula,  528 

McCauley,  James,    490 
McGee,  Rev.  Jonathan, 

302 
McGinley,  Letitia,  419, 

420,  510,  515 
McGown,    Rev.   A.  J., 

305,  3°6 

McGuire,  Hugh,  236 
Mclntire,  Elias,  299, 

300,  534 
Jonathan,  529 
Levi,  273 

•  Deacon  N.T.(  Church 

Clerk),  295,310,434, 

5i8,  534,  Capt.,  413, 

521 

Mclntire,  Timothy,  93, 

94 

McLane,  J.,  537 
McMaster,  Eliza,  534 
Grannie,  295,  492 
Samuel,  157 
McNeal,  William,  Jr., 

482 
Manahan  (Place),  409, 

4io,  S3* 
Clara  A.,  310 
Samuel  T.,  531 
Manning,  Asa,  273,  299, 

439,  538,  633 
Fred  S.,  235 
Jacob,  323,  538,  633 
Sherebiah,   465,   477, 

540 
Manson,    Rev.    Albert, 

302 
Manuel  (Place),  524, 

452,  457 

Marble,  Oliver,  456 
March,  Clement,  40,  71 

74 
Marsh,  Edward  K.  235, 

236 
Marshall,    Andrew   J., 

236,   507,  509,   5", 

514 

James,  494 
Marstou,  Col.  Gil  man, 

234 
Martin,    Benjamin    J., 

225,  516 
John,  26 
John  J.,  408,412,  503, 

506 

Peter,  26,  29,  49 
Mrs.  Lizzie,  534 


INDEX 


917 


Marvell,  Mr.,  539 
Mary,   Queen  of  Great 

Britain,  13 
Mason  £  Gorges,  4 
John,  i,  3,4,  7,  10,  12, 

16,  18 

Robert,  18,  19 
John  and  Robert,  19 
Col.  John  Tufton,  19, 

40,  42,  48,  68,  72 
John,  Sketch  of  and 
his  posterity,   579- 
58i 

Joseph,  238 
Robert  C.,  539,  636 
Mather,  Rev.  Cotton,  5 
Maynard,  Charles,  533 
Means,  Robert,  270 
Medes,  John,  230 
Melendy,  Augustus  A., 

282,  526 
Joseph,  492 
Melzar,  Ezra  F.,  528 
Merrett,  Nicholas,  27 
Merriam,  Rev.  George, 

3°5 

Rev.  Asaph,  342 
Merrill,  Rev. Nathaniel 
144,  280,  286,   291, 
292,  294,  307,   531, 
533.  3°8>    310>   33°. 
337.   350.  36o.   36i, 
417.  443 
Mr.  M.,  Elocutionist 

386 

James  W.,  536 
Mesandowit,    Indian 

Chief,  ii 
Meserve,  Nathaniel, 40, 

?i 

Green,  etc.,  74,  75 
Miller,    John   C.,   436, 

517 

Mrs.  Nancy,  533 
Mitchell,  Rev.  Joseph 

B.,  342 

Monroe,  Jesse,  235 
Moore,  Samuel,  40 

Col.  Daniel,  208 

Charles,  238 

Rev.  Humphrey,  297 

Fred,  Harriet,  Cyrus, 

512 
Morgan,  John,  236 

Mark,  494 

Morris,  William,  237 
Morse,  Leonard,  533 

Mark,  537 

Mrs.  Harry,  537 
Mullen,  Mr.,  509 
Murch,  George,  516 
Murdo,  Walter  &  wife, 
5*6 


Murra}T,    Major   S.  F., 
398 

Needham  (Place),  491 
William  L.,  537 
Warren,  537 

Nevins,  Miss  Ann  Jane, 
363 

Newell,  John,  451,  457, 

513 
Newton,  HarveyM.,234 

Ida  M.,  419 
Nichols,  Warren,  530 
Nickolls,  Daniel,  48,  95 
Norbourne, Alfred,  435, 

438 
Norman,  Benjamin,   26 

William.  30 
Nutting,  John,  Jr.,  52 

O'Connor,  Edward,  236 
Odell,  Luther,  446,  536 
Odiorne,  Jotham,  40,  71 
Oliver,  Andrew,  Esq., 

69,  80 
&  wife,  Mary  (Lynde) 

95 
Benjamin  Lyude,  78, 

79.  95,  96 

Orcutt,  Rufus,  238 
Ordway,  Enoch,  530 
James,  98,  329 
John,    134,    161,    265, 
325,  327,   408,   474, 
530,  635 

John  C.,  238,  302,  531 
Moses,  133,  159 
Walter,  530 
William  H.,  234,  236, 

238,  239 
Orne,  Simon,  26,  30 

John,  325 
Osborne  (Place),  536 

W.  H.,  536 

Osgood,  Samuel,  26,  30 
Robert  B.,  492,  636 

Packer,  Thomas,  40 
Page,  John,  514 
Paine,  Miss,  302 
Palfrey,  3 
Palmer,  Asa,  536 

Eben  J.,  238 
Parish,  Rev. Elijah,  291 
Parker,  "  Old  Tavern  " 

536 

Carleton,  230 
Charles,  536 
Deborah,  635 
Elmer  B.,  528 
George  W.,  392,  527 
Mrs  .George  W.,  528 
Isaiah,  422,  490,  "536 


Josiah  M.,  527 
Robert,  230 
Samuel,  488 
William,  40 
Parry,  Edward  &  Heirs 

540 

(Place),  433,  434 
Parsons,  Jonathan,   157 
Nathan,  161 
Thomas,  161 
Passaconaway,    Indian 

Chief,  8 
Patch,  Edwin  N.,    102, 

538 

Dea.  Abram,  540 
Patterson,  Walter,  511 
Payson,  Rev.  John,  144, 

286 
Peabody,    Rev.     Eph- 

raini,  147 
Joseph,  96,  97 
Stephen,  142,  252 
Widow,  93 
William,  36 
Peacock,    Rev.     John, 

342,  344 

Peal,    Jonathan,    Esq., 
26,  30,  48,  96,  488, 

539 

George,  26 
Pearson,  Abigail,  353 
Amos,  159,  494 
Daniel,  95 
Dimon,  454 
Ebenezer,    339,    353, 

503 
Ebenezer,    Jr.,    227, 

5.15,516 

Elizabeth,  95,  96 

James,  332,  528 

Jesse,  312 

Jonathan,  Jr.,  328 

Moses,  231,  337,  437 

Samuel,  337 

Miss  Submit  R.,  339 

Susan,  338 

Susan  E.,  528 

Thomas,  486 

William,  338 
Peirce,  Lieut.  Col.  Ben- 
jamin, 209 

Daniel,  40,  71,  73-75 

John,  80,  81,  85-87,  89 

Joshua,  40 

Perham,    Charles     L., 
539,  636 

David,  332,  527,  528 

Harvey,  492,  528,  529 

John, 529 

Joseph,  529 

Oliver,  96,  206,  300, 
323,  Ensign,  328, 
539 


INDEX 


Oliver,  Jr.,  447 
Otis,  529 
Rodney,  529 
S.,  447 
William,  332 
Willis,  538 
Perkins,  Edinond,  206, 

267,  332,  333.  538 
Person,    Nathan,     289, 

354,  488,  627 
Peters,  Rev.  Hugh,  7 
Petors,  Richard,  26,  30 
Pettingill, Frank  A.  436 

5«>3i  5i6 

Phelps,  Ensign  Nath- 
aniel, 147,  154,  J57, 
162,  273 

Philip,  Indian  King,  8, 

9 

Phipps,  Sir  William,  13 
Pickman,    Col.    Benja- 
min,   Esq.,  44,  45, 
48,  52,  483,  485,  486, 
488 

L/ove,  52 

William,  79,  80,  488 
Pickwortb,  John,  26  ; 
Pike,  Col.  James,  237 
Place,  Rev.  L.  D.,  304, 

3°5 

Plummer,  Daniel,  537 
Pollard,  Rev.   Joseph, 

342,  345 

Potes,  William,  26 
Powers,  Ephraim,   134, 

138,    279-281,     486, 

487,  534 
George,  239 
Edward,  529 
Pratt,    Mrs.   of  Salem, 

25,  27,  28,  61 
Amos,  434,  442,  530 
George,  236 
Rev.  Dura  D.,  340 
Preston,  Seth,  236 
Price,  John,  239 
Proctor,  John,  26,  30 
Benjamin,  26 
Daniel,  224,  225, 

(Place),  536 
David  E.,  237,239,491 
vSylvester,  274 
John,   491,    536,   537, 

(Old  Place) 
Punchard,      Benjamin, 

154 

Samuel,  Jr.,  159 
Putnam,     Aaron,     436, 

488 

Abigail,  368,  489 
Adeline,  505,  506 
Algernon  W.,  388,521 
522 


Alice,  515 
Benjamin,  230 
Betsey,  503,  505 
Byron,  350,  461,  507, 

509,  511,  513 
Daniel,  Esq.,  226,323, 

332,  334,  338,  367, 
380,  442,  488,  503, 
507,  520,  610 

Prof.  Daniel,  350,353, 
390,  612  614 

David,  162,  267,  273, 
274>  337-340,  344, 
349,  361,  363,  En- 
sign, 368,  439,  440, 

451,  453-    488,   489, 
522 

Deacon     David,  Jr., 

226,   227,  230,  344, 

419,  488,  489,  495, 

521,  522 

David,  3rd,  521,  522 

Edward,  605 

Edwin   H.,    32,    410, 

452,  453,   459,   477, 
495,  52i,  523 

Mrs.  Eliza,  120 

Ephraim,  36,  38,  41, 
47,  105,  133,  137, 
141,  144,  150,  152, 
157,  158,  161,  272, 
278,  607-609 

Ephraim,  Jr., 245,246, 
248,  265,  268,  310, 
322,  354,  495  521, 

522,  609 
Ephraim,    3rd,     162, 

230,  5°3,   506,   526, 

609 
"Danvers"  Ephraim 

486,  516 
Ephraim,   2nd,    339, 

436,  503,   504,   5*6, 

517 

Esther,  517 
Ephraim    Hildreth, 

332 

Mrs.  Ephraim  Hil- 
dreth, 506,  517 

Capt.    Eleazer,     410, 

503,  505 

Miss  Emma  D.,  420 
Mrs.  Fanny,  510 
Miss  Grace  E.,  508 
Col.    Haldimand   S., 

235 
Capt.  Israel,  224,  227, 

230,  340,  439,  452> 
489,495,  522,  611 

Mrs.  Israel,  506 

Jacob,  35,  36,  83 

Jacob  D.,  461 

James  A.  G.,  509 


Jason,  344,  622 
Jesse,  485 
John,  488,  503,  505 
John  A.,  523,  525 
Jonathan,  332,  517 
Jonathan,  Jr., 332,367, 

517 
David  Johnson,  best 

known  as  Johnson, 

312,  520 

Joseph,  226,  493 
Leonard,  231 
Marian,  489 
Mariette  D.,  349 
Mattie  S.,  535 
Nathaniel,  31,  32,  49, 

486 
Phebe     (Goodrich), 

428 

Percy  H.,  485,  523 
Hon.  Perley,  605 
Col.  Philip,  80-84,  87, 

90,  92,  95 
Roy  N.,  410,  412,413, 

5H 

Sarah  (Clark),  489 
Stephen,   34-36,   45, 

48,  58,  483,  484 
Susanna  (Hartshorn) 

226,  349,  522 
Col.    Timothy,     230, 

489,  496,  522,  538 
Timothy  (Thurston), 

460,  499,  523 
Putnams,  Dales,  etc., 

54 
William  R.,  350,  388, 

611 
Gen.  Israel,  614 

Quiglig,  Mr.,  71 
Quiggle,  Ella  M.,  536 

Ramsdell,    John,  225, 

538 

Rand,  Edgar,  494,  635 

Rev.   John,   60,  139, 

279,  306,  453-  614- 
615 

John,  93 

Nehemiah,  80,  81 ,  82- 

85,  87,  90,   91,  155- 

158,   246,   271,  27.2. 

325,  453.  454,  483, 
484,  532,  615-616, 
628 

Rev.  Lyinan  F.,  302 
Sarah  D.,  532 
Randall,  Abraham,  291 
Randell,  George,  225 
Randolph,  Edward,    18 
Raymond,  Paul,  49 
George  B.,  238 


INDEX 


919 


Rev.  George  T.,  342 
John  P.,  239 
William  B.,  435,  533 
Read,  Nathan,  96 

Jesse,  226,  273,  539 
Record,    Rev.     Isaiah, 

342 

Reon,  Joseph,  236 
Reynolds,  Frank,  437 
John,   154,    157,    161, 

246,  272,  627 
Richards,    Mrs.    F.    B. 
(or     Lizzie),    226, 
420,  453 

Fred  B.,  462,  522 
Rev.  Mr.,  297 
Marshall  B.,  517 
Richardson    (Place), 

531 

Stephen,  34 
Benjamin,  140 
Rev.  Cyrus,  304,  305, 
Fred  A.,  440,  454,  459 
Harry,    118,473,474, 

49°.  53° 
Jacob,  330 
James,  483 
John,  310,  312, 469.533 
Lieut.  Joseph,  29,  32- 

36,  48,  77,  78,  252 
Joseph's  son,  35 
Joseph  B.,  483 
Nathan,  530,  636 
Sarah  S.(Mrs.Dodge) 

306 

Solon,  538 
Timothy,    299,     324, 

444,  459 

William,  225,227,231, 
300,  301,  352,   492, 

5°7 

William,  Jr.,  337 
William,  538 
Riley,  Charles  D.,  492, 

531 

Rindge,  John,  40 
Robbins,  Milo,  528 

Russell,  528 
Robinson, ,  30 

Abel,  26 

William,  26 
Roby,  Luther,  460 
Rockwood,  Rev.  Arden 

M.,  306 
Rogers,  Dr.,  73 

Edward  E.,  536 
Ropes,  Jonathan,  627 
Rose  (Place),  493 

Abraham,    493,    494, 

5°°»  S38 
Brackley,  225 
George,  634 
Willard,  434,  538 


Ross,  Edward,  236 

George,  508 

Ruth,  419 

Samuel,  508 

Mrs.  Sarah,  508 

Thomas,  510 
Roswell,  Sir  Henry,  3 
Rowe,  John,    161,  485, 

486 

Ruffle,  George,  419 
Ruland,  Rev.G.W.,  304 
Russell,   Dr.   Daniel 
(lived    on   the    T. 
Boffee    place),   89, 
94,  97,  251,  327 

Aaron  W.,  538 

Adoniram,  634 

Burnham,  254,  538 

Ebenezer,    224,    225, 
230,  231 

Harriet,  506,  525 

Jedidiah,  206,  517 

Jedidiah,  Jr.,  526 

John,  230 

Josiah,  538 

Orrin,  538 

Sergeant  Peter,  161, 
484 

Samuel  K.,  517 

Rev.  T.  Clarkson,342 

William,  230 
Ryerson  (Place),  436 

William  N.,  274,  634 

William,  516,  517 

Clara  N.,  516,  517 

St.  Castine  (Baron),  10, 

ii 

Sanborn, George  H.,46o 
Sargent,  Dana  B.,   485, 

5ii,  535 
Mrs.    Dana    B.      (or 

Elsie),  116,  535 
Joshua,  206,  230,  451, 

456,  469,   489,  513, 

522 

John,  231 
Rev.  F.  D.,  303 
Rev.  Joseph,  340 
Ruthy,  522 

Saunders,  Joseph,  224 
Savage,  Charles,  528 
Ensign  John,    93-95, 

154,    158,    161,  434, 

486,  627,  628 
Rev.  William  T.,  300 
Sawin,  Rev.   Theophi- 

lus    Parsons,    302, 

303,  365,  366 
Sawyer,  Mr.,  636 
Searl,  Thomas,  26,  30 
Searles,  Jotham,  490 
Lucinda,  519 


Seiiter  (Place),  536 

Benjamin,  490 

Charles  H.,  536 

Franklin,  536 

Oliver,  490 

Ruth,  490 

Samuel,  536 
Severance,  Joseph,  149 

Sharpe,  Mrs.  Joseph 

509 

ShattuckBros.,  504 
Shaw,  Christopher  C., 

401 
Shedd,    Mrs.    Octavia, 

5io 

Shepard,  John,  235,  454 
John,Jr.,Esq.,  67,  69- 

73.  75.76,81,82,84, 

85,   87,   89,   90,  92, 

137 
Robert  T.  S.  &  heirs, 

538 

Walter  S.,  538 
Simonds,  Jesse,  463, 

539 
Simpson,    John,    his 

town,  23,  24,  25 
Skead,  John,  49 
Small,  Sylvester,  529 
Smith,  Dr.  Albert,  15 

Andrew,  226 

Arthur  P.,  235 

Rev.  Bezaleel,  302 

Charles  J.,  255 

Charles  R.,  536 

David,  226 

Edward  D.,  518 

George,  274 

Rev.  George,  302 

Rev.  G.  B.,  343,  520 

Henry,  239 

John, 26 

John,  273 

Lewis  W.,  236 

Luther,  160 

Miss  Mary  E-,  363 

Dea.,  340 

Peter,  411 

Uriah,  635 
Solly  &  March,  40 

Samuel  Solly,  40 

Clement  March,  74 
Somerville,  Mr.,  140 
Southwick,  John,  226, 

458,  49°.  536 
Spalding  or  Spauldiug, 

Abijah,  226 
Edward,  159,  483 
Elbridge  Gerry,  618- 

619 

E.  P.,  449,  540 
George,  635 


920 


INDEX 


George  E.,  282,  297, 

434,  459.  530,  53  f 
545,  636 

Henry,  230,  540 

Dr.  Henry  E.,  237, 
561,  632 

Capt.  Levi,  47,  143, 

151,  154,  156,  158, 

159,  245-247,  251, 

252,  354,  355,  49i 

Place, 540, 628,  635, 

616-618 
Levi  P.,  540 
Merrill  T.,  239,  537 
"  Paige,"  540 
Reuben,  154,  484 
Stephen,  483,  540 
Levi  heirs,  540 
Rev.    Samuel  Jones, 

619 
Stacy,  Miss  Minnie  E., 

413,  511 
Byron,  505 
Starrett    (Place),    493, 

536 

William,  540 

Frank,  540 

Stayner,  Henry  M.,  533 
Stearns,  Hon.  Ezra  S., 
68,  224 

Daniel,  435 

Frank,  533 

John,  435,  533,  636 

Seth,  494 
Steele,  William  P.,  238, 

4io>  503,  505 

Mrs.  Wm.  P.  (Ade- 
line), 505 

Hattie  D.,  420 
Stephens,  Capt.  John, 
28,30 

Col.  Aaron  P.,  237 

George  W.,  363 

George  H.,  536 

Miss  Martha  G.,  363 

Samuel,  161 
Stephenson,  or  Stinson 
David,  38,  48,  524 

John,  38,  67,  114,  133, 

!35,  137,  !38,  140, 
141,  144,  145,  147, 
i53>  Agt.,  161,  207, 
266,  282,  289,  310, 
459,  486,  518,  535 

John  H.,  235 

Jonathan,    224,     225, 

453,  459 

Jonathan  H.,  239 
Jotham,  449,451,452, 

493 

Jotham  S.,  519 
Mary,  519 
Sarah,  339 


S.  Hartwell,  510 
Widow,  95,  96 
Willis  J.,    113,    114, 

410,  459,  524 
John,  John,  Jr.,  Jona- 
than, Willis  J.,  535, 

540 
Steward,  Rev.  Antipas, 

138,  139,    142,    143, 

282,  284 

Stewart,  Walter,  532 
Stiles,  54 

Asahel,  137,  161 
David,  Esq.,  361,  363, 

439'  S32,  636 
David,  Jr.,  537 
Ebenezer,  252 
Joshua,  88 
Moses,  Jr.,    133,   134, 

279,    280,   487,    488 

497,  523 

Reuben    (killed    at 
Wilton  raising),  149 
Warren,  436 
Stone,  William,  29 
Strattou,     David,    467, 
482,  483,   486,   492, 

534 
Sullivan,    Gen.    John, 

272,  182 

Summers,  William,  226 
Swan,  Robert,   30,   48, 

84,  88,  94 
Swasey,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 

Edwin  M.,  413,504, 

5n 

Samuel,  26,  30 
Stephen,  26 
Sweat,  Joseph,    25,  29, 

48 
Sweetser,   Mrs.  M.  A., 

.540 
Swinington,  Betsey, 519 

520 

Everett,  520 
Job,  519,  520 
Josiah,  519,  520 


Tapley,  Benjamin,  30 

John,  26 

Robert,  26 

William,  26 
Tappan,  Col.  MasoiiW. 

234 

Tarbell,     Lieut.     Cor- 
nelius,  26,   28,  30, 

32,  33,  35 
Capt.  Joel    H.,   345, 

346,  35°,  4n-4r3, 
460,  462,  499,  504- 
5o6,  509,  510,  511, 
5H,  515,  520,  633 


Mrs.  Joel  H.,  (Esther 

P.),  514,  517 
Joel,  353,  515 
Charles  F.,  412,  505, 

520 
Mrs.  Charles  F.  (E. 

C.),346,386,420,5ii 
Charles,  504,  516,  528, 

529 

Charles  H.,  275,  511, 
520 

Joseph  A.,  412,  462 

Hiram  M.,  234,  236, 
5°4,  528,  529 

Walter  S.,  346,  388, 
410,  412,  413,  505, 
5°7,  520 

Mrs.  Walter  S.  (Liz- 
zie G.)  388,  4X3,420 
\William,  504 
Tarbell,  Nello,  525 

F.  H.,  529 
Tay,  Frank  B.,  437,442, 

492,  53°,  636 
Nathaniel,  534 
Taylor,  Elias,  537 
Teague,  William,  239 
Tenney,  Rev.  Leonard, 

302 

Benjamin  F.,  517 
Thayer,  Jonathan  (Rev- 
olutionary soldier) 

49°..  536 

Thomlinson,  John,  40 
Thompson,    Andrew, 

Col.  John  L,,  238 

John,  239,  450 

William,  354,  484 
Thorndike,  Mr.,  419 
Thorpe,  Rev.  John,  304 
Tidd,    Mr.   and    Miss, 

507  and  note 
Tighe,  Mr.,  436 
Torrey,  Rev.  D.  T.,303 
Towne,   Hon.  William 
B.,  41 

John,  226 

Samuel,  252,  253,  494 

Tyler,  231 
Trask,  Edward,  26,  30 

William,  26 
Trevitt,  Mrs.  Ellen, 309 
Tripp,  Mr.,  461 
Trott,  Thomas,  27,  30 
Tuf ton,  Joseph,  John  & 

Robert,  18 
Tupper,  Royal  B.,  225, 

297 

Robert  B.,  53 1 -533 
Tyler,  312 
Twadle,  James,  49 
Twitchell  (Place),  434, 
448 


INDEX 


921 


A»a,  540 
A.  S.,  634 
Tyler,   Levi,    114,  439, 

440,  451,  512,  513 
Andrew,  516,  538 

Underbill,  John,  5,  6,  7 

Verry,  Jonathan,  26,  30 
John,  26 

Waldron,  Major,  9-11 
Walk,  John,  26 
Walker,  Herman,   437, 

442,  531 

Wallace,    Miss     Char- 
lotte M.,  365,  504 
Mrs.  E.  P.,  504 
Mrs.  Fannie  A.,  419 

Miles  E.,  454,  5IO>  5H 
Robert  Burns,  411 
Wallingford,   Thomas, 
40,  63,68-71,73,  81, 
82,  91 

Walter,  Rev.  William, 
D.D.,  76,  80,  82-84, 
87,  89-94,  96,  583- 
585 

Harriot  T.,  96 
Benjamin  Lynde,  585 
William,  585 
Waltron,  Mr.,  32 
Ward  well,  Dr.  Daniel, 

622 

Warner,  Rev.  William, 
R.,   342,    344,   419, 
420 
Warren,  E.rK.,  292,  409 

53.1 
Washington,    Gen. 

George,  264 
Watkins,   Oliver,    535, 

536 

Watrous,  Rev.  E.,  Hay- 
den,  342 

Webb,  William,  26 
Welles,  Samuel,  Esq., 

25-27.  3°.  48,  80,  95, 

96,  483.  53° 
Wellman,  Jacob,  Jr.,88, 

97-100,  117,  134,137. 

139,   142,    145,   146, 

157,  158,   207,   278, 

279,  289,  Capt.  310, 

482,538 
James  M.,  234 
John,  Jr.,  337,537 
John,  538,  539 
Polly,  538 
Wentworth,  Gov.  Ben- 

ning,  2,  37,  42,  133, 

136 


Mark  Hunking,  40 

John,  40,  73,  75 
West,  Furginson,  30 
Weston,  Edward,  516 
Wetherbee,  Josaph,  238 
Wheeler,  Carlos,  636 

Dustin,  510-512,  515, 
520 

Dr.  Jonas,  412,  534 

Josiah,   340,  386,  409, 

439.  532 

Mrs.  Josiah,  386 
Luther  M.,  446 
Mary  A.,  412,  413,  506 
Nathan,  275,323,330, 

360,  408,  532 
Salathiel  Lidson,  515 
Wheelwright,  John,  4, 

ii,  14,  15 
Whipple,  Col.Thomas, 

235 
White,  Rev.  Jacob,  297, 

299,  361 
Joseph,  538 
Nicholas,  42-44 
Thomas,  26 
Whiting,  David  &  Sons 

529.  539 
Oliver,  227,  300,  310, 

332,  361,  363,  433, 

491,  540,  635 
Stephen,  483 
Whitmarsh,  Charles, 

224,  491,  537 
Whitney,  Martin,  274, 

402-404,     409,    530, 

536,  537 
Whiton,  Rev.  John  M., 

4,  274,  297,  300 
Whittemore  (Place), 

540 

Aaron,  540 
Aaron,  540 
Maj.  Amos,  97-100, 

152,    157,   158,    161, 

246,  265,   272,  354, 

488,  628 
Daniel,  484,  500 
Daniel   B.,  312,   490, 

491,  500,  540,542,636 
Rev.  E.  J.,  342,  365 
Harry  W.,  I2on,  541, 

625 

James,  226 
Jonathan,  491 
Samuel,  491 
William  L.,  120 n, 224, 

225,  363,   364,   433, 
624 

Wibird,  Richard,  40,  73 
Wiggin,  Capt.,  6 
Wilcox,  Rev.  Bela,  338 
Wilder,  Alfred  C.,537 


Charles,  344,  350 
Erwin  D,  491,  537 
William  C.,  310,  530, 

537 
Wilkerson,  Edwin,  507 

Herbert,  513 
Wilkins,    Amos,     497, 

499,  538 

Rev.  Daniel,  39,   40, 
141,  142,  144 

Elisha,  271,  272 

Joseph,  67,  133,  139 

Jotham,  490 
William  &  Mary  (King 

and  Queen)  13 
Williams,  Roger,  5 

Isaac,  26,  30 

Jonathan,  26 

Hilliard,  27 

Thomas  A.,  409,  531, 

532 

Williamson,  3,  8 
Wilson,   Ensign  Abiel, 

272 

Albro,  511 
Charles  H.,  510 
Joseph,  154 
Mi  Hard,  540 
Sarah,  636 
Winn,  Frank,  436,  496, 

5i6 

Rev.  Fred  E.,  305 
George  E.,   236,  508, 

532 

Wolf,  Herman,  240 
Woodbridge,  74 
Woodbury,  Josiah,  157, 

486,  627 
Woods,  Rev.  John,  302 

Mrs.  Stella  E.,  536 
Woodward  (Place),  436 
Aaron,  293,  360 
Adoniram,  494 
Anson,  408 
Artemas,  516 
Mrs.  Artemas,  636 
Charles,  539 
Woodward,  Daniel,  Sr. 
113,  293,   300,   323, 
409,  481,  491,   532, 
540,  636 

Daniel,  Jr.,  312,  408, 
448,481,531,532,540 
David,  293 
David,  2nd,  534 
Eleazer,  97,  154,  159, 
165,   266,   273,    292, 
295,  355,  467,   493, 
530 
Eleazer,  Jr.,  293,  442, 

530,  535 
Elizabeth,  535 
Ephraim,  523 


922 


INDEX 


Ephraim   Putnam, 

226,  231 
Ethan  A.,  512 
Foster,  116,  437,  492 

493.  513.  535 
Major  George  T.,  237 

239.  530 

Hannah,  293,  534 
Hannah  P.,  293 
Henry  M.,  564 
Israel,   273,  293,  360, 

493.  534 


Ithamar,  162,165,168, 

251,  273 
Jacob,  496 
Jacob  N.,  496 
Jacob  A.,  106,207,276, 

388,   455,  458,   529, 

530.  544.  577,  650 
Rev.  James  W.,  291 
James  G.,  408 
John,    118,    165,    292, 

518 

Josie,  535 
Levi  H.,  224,  225,  535 


Woodwell,  Rev.  W.H., 

302 

Worcester,  Francis,  272 
Wrightjulien  E.F.,53i 
Wyeth,  Rev.  John,  282 
Wyman,  Collins,  636 

York,  Duke  of,  30,  31 
Young,  Charles,  516 
Quincy,  508 
William,  509,  516,  520 
William  W.,  411,412, 
435,  504,  514 


PLACES 


Acworth,  633 

Amherst,  39,  40,  46,  70,  89,  92,  94, 
133,  135,  145,  155,  *58,  3°o,  302- 
306,  309,  325,  342,  368,  423 
Post  Office,  434 

North  West  Parish,    or   Mont 
Vernon,  254,  270,  280,  286,  291, 

297,  515,  521 
Andover,  Mass.,  72,  298,  302-306 

East,  353 
Ashuelot  Towns,  32,  429 

Bangor,  Me.,  Seminary,  301 

Barnes'  Falls,  32,  541 

Bay  Colony,  34 

Bay  State,  39 

Bedford,  283 

Beech  Hill,  454 

Bennington,  Vt.,  302,  304,  305 

Boston,  Mass.,  4,  5,  13,  14,  151 

Bowdoin  College,  Me.,  305 

Boylston,  Mass.,  306 

Braintree,  Mass.,  14 

Breda,  Treaty  of,  10 

Bridgewater,  Mass.,  298 

Brown  University,  Prov.  R.  I.,  398 

Brookline,  303,  305 

Burlington,  306 

Cambridge,  Mass.,  350,  413 
Canada,  12-24 
Castleton,  Vt.,  632 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  2,  5 
Chelmsford,  Mass.,  61 
Chelsea,  Mass.,  511,  514 
Cocheco,  9 

Concord,  304,  306,  633 
Connecticut,  13,  14,  17,  32 
Cobs,  165,  166,  169,  170 
Crown  Point,  207 

Danvers,  Mass.,  39,  71,  78 


Dover,  4,  5,  9,  n 
Dutch  Colony,  2,  5,  16 
Dunstable,  19,  41,  55,  79,  84,  87 
Duxbury  School  Farm,    23-25,  48, 

135.  153,  156,  252,  255,  256 
Driscoll  Hill,  433 
Deering,  301 

East  Bridgewater,  Mass.,  306 

England,  13 

Exeter,  4,  n,  15,  21,  150,  151,  529 

Fishkill,  N.  Y.,  169 
Florida,  2,  4,  5 
Francestown,  70,  94,  102 
France,  13,  39 
Franklin,  N.  H.,  15 

Greenfield,  84,  243,  250,297,  304,  350, 

436 
Greenville,  305,  369 

Haverhill,  Mass.,  42 
Hampton,  15,  16 
Hillsborough,  41,  338,  339 
Hancock,  462,  515,  516 
Hollis,  270,  279,  280,  283,  286 
Holland,  13 
Hudson,  146 
Hyde  Park,  Mass.,  413 

Ipswich  Hamlet,  73 

Jamestown,  Va.,  2,  5 

Jaffrey,  302 

Johnson's  Corner,  116,  117,  118,  281, 

537 

Keene,  280,  339 
Kennebec  River,  3,  9 
Kittery,  Me.,  9 

Laconia,  8,  12 


•Many  of  the  places  named  on  this  and  the  following  pages  are  given  as  the  resi- 
dences of  those  who  rendered  some  service  in  or  for  the  benefit  of  the  town. 


INDEX 


923 


Lake  Champlaiu,  13 

Lemington.  Me.,  301 

Lexington  &  Concord,  Mass,    151, 

265 

Litchfield,  41 
Londonderry,  145,  283 
Lowell,  Mass.,  17,  545 
Lunenburg,  Mass.,  286,  506 
Lyme,  417 
Lynn,  Mass.,  588 

Maine,  Province  of,  4,  12,  28 

Manchester,  103 

Marblehead,  27,  28,  61 

Marlboro  ugh,  339 

Mason  (Township  No.  i),  46,  291 

Massachusetts  Colony,  1-3,  8,  9,  12, 

13,  15,  16,  18,  61,  74 
State,  270 

Melrose,  Mass.,  350 
Michigan,  350 
Mile  Slip,  153,  156 
Milford,  103,  255,  256,  297,  323,  338, 

365,  461,  507,  521,  526,  528 
Monson,  46 
Montreal,  14 
Mont  Vernon,  103,  252,  254,  302, 304, 

3°5,  3°9»  454,  494,  497,  507,  53$ 

Nantasket,  14 

Nashua,  280,  286,  304-306,  340,  410, 

529 

New  Boston,  15,  41,  47,  49,  50,  70, 
76-78,  98,  99,  102,  135,  254,  291, 

297,  3°°,  338,  434,  494,  5i5>  631 
Newbury,  Mass.,  15 
Newburyport,  Mass.,  17,  306 
New  England,  2-4,  6,  10,  103 
New  F  airfield,  Conn.,  302 
New  Hampshire,  2-4 
New  Ipswich,  46,  66,  89,  286,  411 
New  Jersey,  15 
New  Netherlands,  2 
Newport,  302 
New  York,  10,  13-15 
North  Lyndeborough,  104,  425,  427, 

434,  437,  458,  476,  541 
North  Town,  280 
Norwalk,  Ct.,  634 
Norwich,  Vt.,  291 
Nova  Scotia,  2,  10,  15 
Number  Two,  or  Wilton,  54-57,  62 

Old  Colony,  2 
Orleans,  Mass.,  298 
Ossipee  Lake,  22 

"  Parsonses  Corner,"  156,  252 
Pawtucket  Falls,  16,  17 
Pemaquid,  Me.,  10,  13 
Pepperell,  279,  280,  286 
Peterborough,  41,  84,  302,  339,  350, 
436,  519,  634,  R-R. 


Peterborough  Slip,  46,  48,  135 

Philadelphia,  151 

Piscataqua  Colony,  2-4,  7,  10,  12,  15, 

18,  20,  21 
Plymouth,  2,  7 
Port  Royal,  2,  13 
Portsmouth,  2,  4,  5,   n,  21,  29,  72, 

74,  75,  80,  86,  89,  274 
Province  of  Maine,  3,  n 
Purgatory,  98,  103, 115,  116,  454 
Putnam  Corner  &   Hill,   458,  277, 

428,  498,  523,  635 

Quebec,  13,  14 

Raby  (Brookline),  46 
Reading,  South,  527 
Rhode  Island,  5,  15 
Richmond,  16 
Rindge,  16,  66 
Rowley,  Mass.,  291 

Saratoga,  163 

Salem,  Mass.,  2,  5,  25,  27,  28,  41,  61, 

70,  74,  78,  140 
Salem-Canada,  15,  106,  107 
Salisbury,  16 
Society  Land,  77,  84 
Souhegan  Valley,  521 
Souhegan  West  (Hudson),   48,   49, 

279,  280 
South   Lyndeborough,  32,   102-104, 

302,  304,  305,  458-462,  503,  365, 

636 

Stow,  Mass.,  291 
Stoneham,  Mass.,  540 
Strawberry  Bank  (Portsmouth),  6 
St.  John's,  162 
St.  Christopher,  10 
St.  Lawrence  Shoals,  14 
St.  Lawrence  Valley,  103 
Swanzey,  339 

Temple,  102,  103 
Ticonderoga,  162,  1 68 
Trenton,  N.  J.,  168 

Weare,  a  Canada  Township,  16 

Wayland,  Mass.,  306 

Wells,  Maine,  301 

West  Point,  165,  166 

Weston,  Mass.,  264 

West  Somervilie,  Mass.,  302 

West  Medford,  Mass.,  304 

White  Plains,  162 

Wilton,  or  Number  2,  46,  305 

Wilton,  Maine,  305 

Winter  Hill,  167,  168 

Winchendon,  Mass.,  306 

Woburn,  Mass.,  28,  29 

Yypsilanti,  Michigan,  350 


924 


INDBX 

SUBJECTS 


Academies,  366 

Account,  for  labor  on  Meeting- 
house, 35,  36 

Acres,  Ten,  controversy,  325 
Act,  favoring  toleration,  294 
Addition,  Lyndeborough,  68,  70 

New  Boston,  68,  70,  76 
Advertisement,  25 
Admiral's  flag  shot  away,  14 
Agent  of  Masonian  Proprietors,  59 
Agents  to  treat  with  Purchasers  of 
Wallingford's  Right,  80 

Thanked  for  vigilance,  etc., 

83 
Agreement  with  soldiers,  159,  229 

Aid  for  Soldier's  families,  232 
Alarm,  153 

Those  who  went  on,  162,  163,  167 

Those  who  returned,  167 
Alliance,  39 
American  vessels,  228 
Apple-blossoming  time,  470 
Application  for  share  of  the  minis- 
try fund,  331  sq 
Army  Beef,  160 

Disbanded, 160 

Articles  relating  to  worship  to  be 

voted  on  by  the  town,  157 
Artillery,  209 

Heavy,  239 

I/afayette,  207,  209,  240 
Ashuelot  Towns,  429 
Association,  Religious,  310,  311 
Authors,  623-625 

Average  of  military  service,  com- 
mittee, and  report  on  the  same, 
158,  167,  169 


Baked  beans,  474 

Baker,  tin,  473 

Barns,  478,  479 

Beef,  army,  160 

Bennington  soldiers,  163 

Birthright,  coveted,  153 

Boarding  the  teachers,  444,  446,  447 

Books  and  newspapers,  467 

Boots,  471 

Boundary  line  controversy,  15-17 

Bounty  to  enlisted  men,  154 

Bounty  for  service,  158 

Brass  Band,  North  Lyndeborough, 
54i,  542 

Brick-manufacture,  459,  460 

Brick  ovens,  466,  473 

Bridges,  438,  496 

Bridge,  Gulf,  635 

British  ships  ordered  out  of  United 
States  waters.  228 

British  injuries  to  American  sea- 
men, 229 


Brook,  Badger,  453 

Bear,  113 

Beasom,  113,  114 

Brandy,  115 

Cold,  116 

Duncklee,  113,  115 

French  or  Button,  113 
Buildings,  public,  439 
Bunker  Hill,  our  wounded  at  battle 

of,  152 
Buttrick's  Mill,  634,  637 

"Cabinet,  Farmers,"  299,  348,  351, 

422,  456,  460 
Canada,  Revolutionary  quota   for, 

153 
Expedition  of  1690,   i,  12-15,   22- 

24 
First  English  captives  carried  to, 

12 

French  Governor  of,  12 
Candles,  467 
Cartloads  of  silver,  14 
Cavalry  of  the  22nd  Regt.,  225-227 
Celebrations  of  isoth  Anniversary, 


Celebration  of  Centennial  of  L.  A. 

Co.,  574-578 

Cemetery,  Centre,  498,  501 
Crosby  Place,  or    Butler  family, 

499 

Dolliver,  old,  502 
Dol  liver,  new,  502, 
Fuller,  502 

Johnson  Corner,  498,  499 
North  Lyndeborough,  500 
Perham  Corner,  501 
South,  498 
Whittemore,  500 
Charters,  The  Masonian,  48-52 
Provincial,  Copy  of,  134-136 
Expense  of,  138 

Cherokee  and  Choctaw  Indians,  369 
Chesapeake,  American  ship,  228 
Church,  Congregational,  influence 

of,  277 
Evidence  of  its  piety,  prayer  and 

fasting,  279 
Invites  ministers  from  abroad  to 

assist,  279 
Organized,  280,  635 
Seventh  in  county,  635 
Refused    aid    from     Proprietors 

toward  building  meeting-house 

281 
Votes  to   seek  incorporation  of 

town,  281 
Lists  of  members  of,  287,  288,  292 

293 

Records  of,  no  criterion    of   its 
character,  288 


INDEX 


925 


Heads  of  families  given  a  voice  in 
its  business  enterprises,  289 

A  new  draft  of  its  covenant,  289 

This  draft  accepted,  290 

Church  and  state  separate,  294 

Warming  arrangements,  295 

Carrying  footstoves  to,  296 

Support,  296 

Pastor  also  acted  as  clerk,  298 

Membership  of,  306,  308 

Records  wanting  for  23  years,  306 

Choir,  311-313 

Charges  presented   against  pas- 
tor, 290 

Answered  by  pastor  satisfactorily 
and  dismissed  by  church,  290 

Chorister's  assistant,  289 

Other  religious  bodies  seek  share 
of  ministerial  fund,  331 

Congregational  church's  original 
right  to,  unquestioned,  331 

Attendance  at,   a  mark  of  char- 
acter, 320,  321,  336 

Loyalty  to,  323 

Distinction  between  church  and 
town,  334 

Baptist,  History  of,  337-350 
Beginnings  of  Baptist  meetings 

337,  338 
Organized,  338 

Names  of  constituent  members, 

338,  339 

Meetings  in  school  houses,  338 
Rev.  Charles  Cummings,  first 

pastor,  339 
Other  pastors,  340 
Christian,  constituted,  352,  353 
Rev.  G.  W.  Hutchinson,  pastor, 

353 

Location  of  Congregational  meet- 
ing-house created  difficulty,282 
Difficulty  compromised   and  fin- 
ally settled  by  commissioners, 
283 

Location    of     Baptist    meeting- 
house decided   by  the  largest 
contributions,  339 
Society,  The  Baptist,  1819,  337 
The   First   Baptist    Society  in 

Lyndeborough,   1831,  348 
The   First   Congregational  Or- 
thodox, 299,  332 
The  First  Universalist,  351 
Circulating  Library,  386,  387 
Citizens'  Hall,  440 
Civil  War,  Roll,  234-240 
Men,  242 
Expenses,  242 
Debt  and  its  reduction   advised, 

242 

Club,  Debating,  392-394 
Club  Reform,  418,  419 
College  graduates,  625 


Colony,  First,  north  of  Florida,  4 
Colonies,    New  Hampshire's    rela- 
tion to   4 

Combinations  in  N.  H.,  7 
Commissioners  on  Boundary  Line, 

15,  16,  18 

Committee  to  close  up  the  Proprie- 
tors' affairs,  79 
To  report  to  the  committee  on 

claims,  158,  166 

To  enlist  quota  for  the  army,  159 
Of  General    Court,  advice  com- 
promise, 245 

Of  General  Court  report  favor- 
ably, 247 

Make  another  report,  250 
To  buy  a  "Poor  Farm,"  273 
Commons,  or  common  lands,  65 
Congress  of  the  States,  Connecti- 
cut, Massachusetts,  New  York, 

13 
Continental,  151 

Constables  and  collectors  of  taxes, 
265 

Constitution  adopted,  79 

Continental    soldiers,    and     those 

Continental     currency  withdrawn 
from  circulation,  160 

Copper,  ten  trucks  of   from  Eng- 
land, 14 
who  hired  them,  164,  165 

Cobs  soldiers,  and  those  who  hired 
them,  165,  166,  169,  170 

Corner,  Bevins',  now  Perham,    282, 

527 

Houston's,  76-78 
Johnson's,  281,  282,  428,  448,  454, 

492,  494 

Beech  Tree,  422 
Four      Towns,      Lyndeborough, 

Franceston,   New    Boston   and 

Mont  Vernon,  318 
New  Boston,  76,  78 
Lyndeborough's  North  West,  81, 

94,  244-247 

Old  Lyndeborough,  76,  77 
Parson's,  243 
Perham's,  434,  501,  528 
Putnam's  458,  503 
Corps,  Relief,  auxiliary  of  G.A.R., 

440 

Reserve,  239 
Marine,  239 
County  History,  Hillsborough  Co., 

368,  369 

Damage,  strongly  spelled,  54 

Great  by  intruders,  83 
Dartmouth  College,  302 
Deacons  of  Congregational  Church, 

310 

Deacons  of  Baptist  Church,  344 
Deeds,  Old,  482-489 


926 


INDEX 


Defenceless  towns,  41 

Derry  men's  encroachments,  69,  70 

Diet  of  early  settlers,  471-473 

Disturbances,  28,  29,  61 
In  Boston,  151 
Delinquent  taxes,  62 

Disagreement  about  location  of  the 
meeting-house,  58 

Dissenters  from  Congregational 
Church  free  to  support  their 
own,  331 

Dissenters  seek  share  of  minis- 
terial funds,  331 

Distribution  of  ministerial  funds, 

333 

Districts,  public  school,  and   resi- 
dents of,  357-363 
Real  estate  aud  residents  in  Dist. 

No.  i,  442,  530 
No.  2,  534 
No.  3,  442,  445,  52o 
No.  4,  445,  535 
No.  5,  446,  517 
No.  6,  447 
No.  7,  448,  537 
No.  8,  448,  449 
No  9,  449 
No.  10,  450 
Divisions,  Lots  consisted  of  First 

and  Second,  29 
Donation  visits,  480,  481 
Donors  of  Communion  Service  and 

Organ,  303,  304 
Drawers,  woolen,  470 
Drinks,  474,  475 

Education,  Board  of,  366 

Encroachments  on  Lyndeborough 
by  the  purchasers  of  Walling- 
ford's  lot,  63,  64 

English   Colonists,  the   Penacooks 

embittered  against  them,  10 
Revolution  of  1689,  13 
Colony  of  Jamestown,  Va.,  5 
Forces,  14 

English  Goverement  disavowed  the 
flagrant  attack  on  the  Chesa- 
peake, but  never  made  prom- 
ised reparation,  228 

Enterprise,  The  Milford,  news- 
paper, 365,  461 

Episcopal  Minister  in  Dover,  15 

Expedition  of  1690,  to  Canada,  12- 
14,  22-24 

Fever,  Spotted,  or  Cold  Plague,  308, 

633 

Fight,  Sham,  9,  n,  12 
Financial  grievance,  146 
First  English  captives  in   Canada, 

12 

Fish  kill  soldiers,  169 

Flora  of  Lyndeborough,  120-131 


French  founded  first  colony  north 

of  Florida  (Port  Royal),  2,  5 
French  or  Dutton  Brook,  113 
French  forces,  14 
French  and  Indian  War,  u,  14 
French  possessions,  10 

Game,  472 

Garden  vegetables,  473 
Gazeteers,  Farmer  and  Moore's,  451 
Fogg's,  386 
Merrill's,  451 
Geology,  Prof.  C.  H.  Hitchcock's, 

102 

Gilmore  Ledge,  105 
Girls,  Employments  of,  469 
Glacial  Drift,  103 
Glass  Company,  453,  460-462,  634 
Golden  wedding,  441 
Gores,  Groton,  46,  55 
Lyndeborough,  71,  72 
Between     Lyndeborough     and 

Derry  men,  71 

Grand  Army  of  Republic,  398,  440 
G.  A.  R.  charter  members  of,  399 

Commanders  of,  400 
Grange,  Pinnacle,  No.   18,   Histori 

cal  Sketch  of,  402-407 
Grantees  of  Lyndeborough,  27 
Grantors  of  Lyndeborough  to  de- 
fend through  the  law,  one  ac- 
tion to  King  and    Council,   if 
need  be,  51 
Grape  culture,  528 
Great  Britain,  declaration   of    war 

against,  by  U.  S.,  229 
Greenfield,  common   lands  of,  87, 

92,  96,  99 

First  mention  of,  84,  102,  103 
Incorporation   of,    243,  250,    297, 

304,  350,  436 

Corrects  her  boundary,  250 
Gets  farms  of  Moses  Lewis  and 

John  Stiles,  250 

Loses  to  Francestown  her  two 
eastern  ranges  of  lots,  251,  518, 
519,  520 

Grievance  against  church  and  pas- 
tor, 334 

Guardian  over  spendthrift,  420 
Gulf  Bridge  on  R.  R.,  635 
Gulf,  Department  of,  235 
Gun  of  the  Lafayette  Artillery  Co., 


Hall,  Armory,  440,  510 
Citizens',  440,  441,  510 
Tarbell's,  440,  510 
Town,  439 
Mercantile,  over  the  old  Centre 

store,  532 

Union  Lecture,  at  North  Lynde- 
borough, 318-320 


INDEX 


927 


Harvard  University,  120 
Hibernian  Burlesque,  in  verse,  16 
Highways  necessary  were  to  be  laid 

out,  50 

Hills,  Hadley,  view  from,  108 
Putnam,  277,  428,  498 
Log  House,  491 
Crooked  S.,  499 
Hiring    men     for     Revolutionary 

Army,  161 
History  of  Hillsborough   County, 

368 

Historical  Sketch  of  Congrega- 
tional Church  by  Rev.  J.  White 
306 

Hopyard,  477 
House  for  public  worship  of  God, 

50,61 

Forest,  later  Pine  Grove,  411 
Pinnacle,  434,  492,  534,  541 
Hillside,  522 

Hymn,  Original,  sung  at  dedica- 
tion of  new  church  at  the 
centre  in  1837,  298 

Improvement  Society,  392 
Impressed  American  seaman,  229 
Indian  tribes  in   New  Hampshire, 

8-12 

Massacres  of  whites,  none  in  New 
Hampshire  for  fifty  years  after 
its  settlement,  24,  27 
War,  39,  51 

Massacre  of  whites,  supposed  to 
be  instigated  by  the  French,  n 
Indians    of  New  Hampshire,    Mo- 
hawks hired  against,  10 
And  French  on  friendly  terms,  13 
Cherokee  and  Choctaw,  369 
Industries,  earliest  in  town,  455 
Infantry,  Light,  209 

Captain  of,  226 
Inoculation,  632  n 
Installations  of  pastor,  Ivory  Kim- 
ball,  300 

Theophilus  P.  Sawin,  302 
A.  C.  Child,  304 
Owen  E.  Hardy,  305 
Arden  M.  Rock  wood,  305,  306, 
Intemperance,  Action  against,  417- 

421 

Insurance  Company,  397,  398 
Irish,  Encroachments  on  Lyndebor- 
ough,  71 

Jurisdiction  over  New  Hampshire, 
not  conferred  on  Massachusetts 
but  usurped  by  her,  17,  18 

Judge  of  Probate,  petition  to,  with- 
drawn, 89,  92 

King  Philip's  War,  22,  24 
William's  War,  31 


Labor,  price  of,  on  highways,  146 
Ladies'  Societies,  Circle,  309,  310 

Circle,  Baptist,  349 
Lafayette  Artillery  Company,  207- 
218 

Incorporated,  212 

Rosters  and  Flags,  212,  218 

Members,  1833-38,  213 

Captains  of,  214-218 
Lamps  and  torches,  467 
Lands  for  the  ministry  sold,   328, 

329 
Lawsuit    concerning    the    "Ten 

Acres,"  327 
Settled,  328 
Ledges,    Lucas,   Gilmore,   Putnam 

and  Hartshorn,  105 
Leopard,  British  ship,  228 
Letters  and  books  were  few,  422 
Were  left  at  Amherst  P.  O.  and 
advertised    in  the    "  Farmers' 
Cabinet,"  423 
Of  Benjamin  Lynde  and  others, 

68 

From  John  Pierce  Esq. ,  80 
From   John    Pierce,    placed    on 
Records  of  Lyndeborough  Pro- 
prietors, 86 
Of  Rev.   Sewall   Good  ridge,   85, 

285 

Of  Dr.  William  Walter,  76,  89, 92 
Of    Lyndeborough    Proprietors, 

59.  278 

Library,  Circulating,  386 
Franklin,  383-386 
Public,  387 
Social,  382 
License     for     sale    of    liquor    not 

granted,  419 

Licentiate  for  the  ministry  by  Bap- 
tist Church,  343,  344 
Light  Infantry  of  22nd  Regiment, 

209 

Sketch  of,  218-223 
Alarm  List,  "Slam  Bangs,"  223- 

225 

Lights,  fire  and  candles,  467,  468 
Line,  Boundary  between  Mass,  and 

N.  H.,  9 
Linen,  468 
Liquor,  475 
Log  cabins,  466 

Lord's  day,  trespassing  on,  295 
Losses  of  settlers  adjusted,  62,  85 
Losses  by  Masonian  Proprietors,  68 
Lots,  plan  of,  in  Salem-Canada,  64 
Second  Division,  retained  their 

dimensions  and  numbers,  65 
Lugpoles  and  cranes,  472 
Lyceums  considered   helpful,  381, 

390-392 
The  first,  389 


928 


INDEX 


Lyndeborough,  Mountain  described 

102,  108 
North  Line,  farther  north  than 

Peterborough's,  by  200  rods,  73 
A  farming  township,  109 
Under  Masonian   Charter,  48-52, 

57,  103,  104 

Versus  No.  2,  or  Wilton,  54,  56 
Gore,  70,  71,  84 
Proprietors    generous,   not    liti- 

gous,  76 

Under  Provincial  Charter,  132 
Revolutionary  Captains  in,   148, 

170 

In  the  Civil  War,  232,  242 
South  Village,  102 
North  Village,  104,  458,  635 
Lenticular  hills  in,  103,  104 
Ponds  and  streams,  105 
Glass  Works,  104 
Name,  whence  derived,  243 
Addition,  what  and  why,  243 
Hacked  and  peeled,  243 
Opposes  temporarily  the   forma- 
tion of  Greenfield,  244-250 
Loses  more  than   1,000  acres  to 

Mont  Vernon,  254-255 
Loses  to  Temple  more  than  900 

acres,  251,  252 
Concedes  the   Howard    farm  to 

Milford,  255 
North  Lecture  House,  built,  318- 

320 
Teachers,  from  printed   reports, 

369-380 

In  the  "  Olden  Time,"  463 
Lynx,  Canadian,  118 

Mails,  routes,  stages,  carriers,  etc., 

422-427 

Maine,  Province  of,  4,  12,  28 
Massachusetts,  Province  of,  270 
Claims  inadmissable,  7,  13, 15,  16, 

21 
Government  and  soldiers,  10,  14, 

22 

Treasury  bankrupt,  14 
Feigned  patriotism,  16 
Boundary  Line  of,  15,  17 
Alliance,  13 
Usurped   jurisdiction    over  New 

Hampshire,  17 
Refused   to  aid  in   running   the 

Boundary  Line,  15-17 
Was  severed  from  N.  H.,  18 
Grants  in  N.  H.,  21,  22 
Records,  Extracts  from,  21-25,  27 
Wisely  assisted  N.  H.  with  guard 

against  the  Indians,  42 
Mason's  title  to  New  Hampshire 

valid,  19 
Right  offered    for    sale  to  New 

Hampshire  Government,  19 


Claims  repugnant  to  and  defeated 
by  N.  H.  citizens,  17 

Right  sold  to  a  Portsmouth  syn- 
dicate of  twelve  men,  19,  40 
Masonian  Proprietors,  or  Grand 
Proprietors  were  thus  consti- 
tuted, 19,  40,  42,  44,  47,  52,  57, 
61,  66,  72,  75,  76, 

Matches,  Friction  introduced,  474 
Meadows  in  Lyndeborough,  Little 
Meadow,  430,  431 

Manuel,  or  Lucas,  457 

Senter's,  116 

Stephenson's,  116 

Whittemore,  112 
Meeting-house,  the  first  location.34 

The  second  location,  57,  58 

The  first  house  and  grounds,  34, 
277 

To  be  underpinned,  raised,  etc., 

35 

Accounts  of  work  on,  35,  36 
Contract  for  building,  37 
Postponement  of  building,   and 

causes  for  the  same,  38,  39 
Required  by  piety,   expediency, 

and  necessity,  as  by  agreement, 

33 

The  first  was  not  finished,  278 
A  new  place  for,  sought,  278,  281 , 

282 

The  second  location   unsatisfac- 
tory, 283 
The  location  finally  decided  by  a 

mutual  Commission,  283 
Set  where   the  Town   Hall  now 

stands,  283 
Dimensions  of  and  sale  of  pews, 

283 

Description  of,  283,  284 
Repairs  of,  322-324 
Care  of,  324 

The  old  house  sold,  284,  324 
Last  worship  in,  298 
First  service  in  present,  298,  300, 

324 

Struck  by  lightning,  300 
Present  house  remodelled,  308 
Grounds  caused  controversy,  324- 

327 

Baptist,  339,  340 
Baptist  repairs,  345,  346 
Baptist  ownership  disputed,  346- 

348 

Meeting  of  Proprietors  in   Lynde- 
borough, 80 
Men  of  '76,  and  those  who  hired 

them,  161 

Who  served  for  other  towns,  169, 
Metes  and  bounds  of   school  dis- 
tricts, 361 

Merchants  and  stores  at  Centre,  408 
409 


INDBX 


929 


And  Stores  at  South  Lyndeboro' , 
409-414 

First,  at  South  Lyndeboro',  409 
Militia,  151,  207,  208 

100,000  called  for,  229 
"Milford  Enterprise,"  386 
Mills  and  Industries,  451-462 
Mine,  "  Scataquog  "  Silver,  395-397 
Mineral  Spring,  527 
Mineralogy,  105 
Minister  prayed  for,  279 

Orthodox,  encouraged   to   settle, 

59.  6l 

And  Ministry,  22,  49,  51 
Ministry  land  sold,  329 
Respected,  290 
Supported  by  tax,  293 
Taxation  for  support  of,  opposed 

294 

Fund  held  as  exclusive,  331 
Fund  finally  distributed,  333 
Minute-man,  his  pay  while  drilling, 

152 

Ministers  who  were  natives,  620, 621 
Ministry  students  who  died  before 
completing  their  studies,  621, 
622 

Money  of  five  kinds,  14,  150,  160 
Voted  for  soldiers  of  Civil  War, 

232 
Voted  for  Revolutionary  soldiers, 

153.  154,  i59>  160 
Great  scarcity  of,  423 
Mont  Vernon  Band,  543 
Monument,  Soldiers',  240,  241 
Mortuary  Record,  as  in  Town    Re- 
ports, 638-645 
Mountains,    division     of,    Boffee's 

(now  Winn),  138,  492,  493 
Rose,  492 
Pinnacle,  493 
"Scataquog,"  116,  395 
Mutual  Fire  Insurance   Company, 

397-398 

Improvement  Society,  292 
Music  receipts,  for  playing  at  mus- 
ters, 227 
Musical  Instruments,  227 

Instruments  in  "  choir,"  312 
"Mutilation"  of  old  Salem-Canada, 
55,  56 

Nails,  cut  at  furnace,  457,  466 

Wooden  pins  used  instead  of,  466 
"  Necessities  of  life,"  Committee  to 

set  value  on,  157 
N.  E.  Magazine,  264 
New  Hampshire,  Relation  to  other 

colonies,  2-4 
Its  territory,  etc.,  1-4,  7,  9,  10-12, 

15-17 
A  Royal  Province,  10,  18 


Gains  twenty-eight  townships  by 
the  King's  decision  of  the  State 
Line,  17,  38 

Citizens  opposed  Mason's  claims, 
17-19 

Patriot,  newspaper,  633 
New  London  Literary  and   Scien- 
tific Institution,  369,  389 
New  York,  men  who  served  in,  168, 
169 

Office,  Post,  411 

Ordinations,  280,  286,  291,  297,  305- 

307,  33° 

Organ,  Mason  &  Hamlin,  303 
Organizations,  local,  395-407 
Orthodox  Congregational  Society, 

299 

Ossippee  Indians,  22, 
Otter,  trapped,  119 
Overseers  of  the  Poor,  270 

Pack  Monadnock,  102 

Pastor  was  also  church  clerk,  298 

Pastors,    three    called,    but    none 

chosen,  330 
Penacooks,  8,  9 
Pequackettes,  8,  22 
Pequods,  14 
Petition  to    Governor  Wentworth 

for  guard,  37 

For  relief,   repeatedly   made  by 
soldiers  of  the  Expedition  of 
1690  or  their  heirs,  43 
Of  Samuel  Dustin,  42 
Of  Nicholas  White  and  Nathaniel 

Bartlett,  42,  44 
For  aid  in  support  of  preaching, 

58,  137 

Response  to,  59,  140 
For  aid  in  settling  a   pastor,  59, 

140 
For  ten  acres  as  meeting-house 

grounds,  88,  326 
For  Provincial  Charter,  133 
That  half  a  mile  in  width  from 
east  side  of  Lyndeborough  be 
joined  to  Amherst   Northwest 
Parish,  158 

From  Parsons  Corner  people  to 
be  set  off  to  form  a  new  town, 
156 

Pensioners,  Revolutionary,  205,  206 
Pews  vendued,  322,  323 
Physical  features  of  Lyndeborough, 

102 

Physician,  first  in  town,  535 
Physicians,  other,  622 
Picnics  and  recreations,  541 
Pine  Grove  House,  504,  511 
Pinnacle  Mountain,  102,  541 
Pinnacle  House,  492,  534 
Piscataquog  River,  116 


930 


INDEX 


Piscataqua,  2-4,  7 

Plan  of  the  town  lots,  64 

Pleasures  and  enjoyments,  477 

Plotting  and  scheming,  18 

Plows,  465 

Plymouth  Company  and  Council, 

i,  3,  6,  7,  10 
Pond,  Badger,  103,  no 

Beaver,  60        • 

Burton,  102,  in 

Poor    who    belonged    elsewhere 
warned  to  leave  town,  270,  271 

In  1775,  amount  expended  for,  272 

Overseers  of,  270 

Care  for,  273 

Farm  bought  and  sold,  273,  274 

Farm,    Superintendents  of,   273, 

274. 

Population,  source  and  stock,  626 
Portsmouth,    serving    at,   for    two 

months,  165 
Post  routes,  rates  of  postage, stamps 

etc.,  422-424    . 

Masters  at  the  Centre,  424-426 
Masters    at    North     and     South 

Lyndeborough,  427 
Potholes,  103 
Potash  works,  459 
Potatoes,  465 
Pottery,  earthenware,  467 
Pound  built,  149 
Powder,  balls  and  flints  purchased, 

150 

Preaching  sustained  in  town,  139 
In  private  dwellings,  58 
Allowance  of  Proprietors  for,  58 
Preaching  held  at  Jacob  Cram' 3,282, 

297 

Price  of  labor  on  highways,  146 
Procession  at  isoth  anniversary,545 
At  Centennial  of  Lafayette  Artil- 
lery Co.,  575-577 
Town  Agricultural  Fair,  542 
Professional  men,  620,  621 
Proprietors,  Masonian  or  Grand,  or 
the  Lord  Proprietors  of  Mason's 
Claims,  19,  42,  66,  82,  83 
Proprietors  were  rarely  settlers,  67 
Meetings,  where  held  and  how 

called,  61 

Protest  against  paying  bounty  to 
soldiers  who  served  for  other 
towns,  154 

Fires,  sufferers  by,  aided,  274 
Protest  against  both  meeting-house 

and  place  for,  282 
Relating    to     meeting-house 

grounds,  326,  327 
Province  Land,  23,  24 
Providing  for  preaching,  278 

For  by  tax,  or  voluntary  subscrip- 
tion, not  always  easy,  297 


"Psalm,"  Persons  chosen   to   "set 

the,"  289,  311 
Purchasers  of  Wallingford's  lot,  80- 

82,  91,  n 

Pulpit  Committee,  141 
Public  buildings,  439 

Questions,  2 

Quota  of  town   for   Revolutionary 

War,  153,  154,  159 
For  War  of  1812,  230 
For  Civil  War,  232-234,  242 

Railroad  cut  described  as  to  soil, 

102,  104 

B.  &  M.,  411,  513,  514 
Peterborough  Extension,  633,  634 
Raisings  and  rum,  277,  479 
Raising,  the  first  without  rum,  480 
Rand  lot,  281,  482-484,  494,  533 
Redress  of  grievance,  petition  for, 

272 

Reform  Club,  418,  419 
Referees  as  to  meeting-house 

grounds,  325 

Regiments  of  early  militia,  207,  208 
Ninth,  208 
Twenty-Sixth,  209' 
Twenty-Second,  210-227 
In  the  Civil  War,  234-240 
Regulars,  call  for,  25,000,  229 
Relation  of  N.H.  to  other  colonies,  4 
Religious  character  of  the  Puritans, 

276 

Remodelled    meeting-house    de- 
scribed, 309 
Remonstrances,    244,   247-249,    253, 

254 
Repairs  on  Cong,  church,  322-324 

On  Bapt.  church,  345,  346 
Resurvey  by  Benjamin  Lynde,  Jr., 

64 

By  others,  90 
Agitation  in  Mass.,  4 
Association  like  the  C.  E.,  310 
Association,    its    constitution, 

members,  etc.,  311 
Revivals  in  the  Cong,  church,  307 

In  the  Bapt.  church,  344 
Review  of  action  on  the  "ministry 

fund,"  333,  334 
Revolution,    its     precursors      and 

success,  150,  1 60 
Review  of  Town  expenditures  for 

Civil  War,  242 

Rights  in  township,  charges  on,  29 
River,  Connecticut,  41 
Merrimac,  41 
Peinigewasset  15 
Penobscot,  10 

Rocky,  32,  513,  518,  519,  635 
St.  Croix,  10 


INDEX 


931 


Roads,  earliest,  31-33 

And  bridges,  428-438 
Rocky  Hill  or  Ledge,  60 
Roll  of  Revolutionary  soldiers,  170- 
205 

Of  soldiers  in  Civil  War,  234-240 
Rose  Frigate,  10 
Roswell's  grant,  3 
Rum,  crusade  against,  475,  476 
Russell's  Station,  103,  113 

Saco  River,  8 
Sagadahoc  River,  7 
Salem-Canada,    15,   27,   31,   43,   44, 
106,  498,  522,  526 

Proprietors,  61 

Plan  of  lots  in,  64 

Described  and  bounded,   106,  107 

Settlers  disturbed,  49 

Streams,  112 

Saw  mill  lot  voted,  29 

Saw  mills,  31,  32 
Salt  and  molasses  affair,  627,  628 
"Scarecrow  case  "  tried  by  church, 

295 

Scalps,  A  bounty  on,  12 
Scataquog  Hill,  94 
Schools,  312,  313,  481 
School  lot,  Committee  to  sell,  152, 

354,  355 

Districts  formed,  153,  154 
Schools,     Committee     to    inspect, 

360,  361 
Superintending     Committee    of, 

360,  361 

First  extended  report  of,  363 
Committee's   Reports,  1852-1880, 

364,  365 
School  Districts,  at  first  seven,  355 

Limited,  356-360 

"Metes  and  bounds  "  of,  361 

High  maintained,  363,  364 

Law  changed,  366 

Teachers  in  early  days,  367-369 

Master  to  teach  in  four  places 
and  in  eight,  355 

Mistress,  354 

Houses,  441-450 
Seminary,    Andover,    referred    to, 

303,  305,  306 
Sermon  Historical,  298 
Shoemaking,  471 
Silver,  Mining  for,  on  "Scataquog" 

395-397 

Silex  Company,  460 
Singers's  seats  assigned,  158 
Singing  in  choir,  uneasiness  about, 

289,  290 
Small-pox  in  1792,  629 

Poem,  63o,  631 

Scare  in  1853,  631,  632 
Snow  falls  of  23  years,  470 
Social  Library,  308,  381 


Sociables,  480 

Society,  First  Baptist  and  success- 
ors, 337,  338,  348,  349 
Congregational    Orthodox,     332, 

333 

Universalist,  350,  352 
Soldiers'  bonnties,  166 
Of  the  Revolution,  Roll  of,  170- 

205 
Of  1812,  agreement  of  and  list  of, 

229-231 
Of  Civil  War  and  Monument,  234- 

241 
Sons  of  Temperance,  419 

Of  Veterans,  440 
South  Sea,  15 

Souhegan  River,  23,  116,  521 
Source  of  our  original  settlers,  626 
Stage  routes  and  mails,  426,  427 
Stony  Brook  or  Rocky  River,    102, 

103,  114 
Stores  and  merchants  at  the  Centre, 

408 
And  merchants  at  So.  Lyndebor- 

ough,  410-414 
Strategy,  27 
Strife,  19 
Striped  frock,  469 
Students  for  the  ministry  who  died 
before  completing  their  studies 
621,  622 
Subscribers  to  Temperance  Fund, 

418 
Subscription  Book,  an  old  relic,  275, 

347 

Summer  Boarders,  522 
Survey,  general,  4 
Survey,  Fletcher's,  fell  short,  63 

Tanneries,  458 

Taxes,  delinquents  in  paying,  62 

Collection  of,  265-267 

Refused  for  support  of  Mr.  Mer- 
rill, 294,  337 

Tax  List  of  1786  (not  indexed),  267 
Time  of  uncertainty  to  settlers,  79 
Tinder-box,  474 
Tools  for  farming,  465 
Topography,  106 
Town,  proposition  to  divide  it  at 

Boffee's  mountain,  138 

Cow  sold,  272,  273 

Treasurers,  275 
Town  opposes  request,  247-249 

Hall,  Cost  of,  estimated,  439 

Fairs  and  celebrations,  541-544 
Town  meeting,  The  first,  136 

How  notified  or  warned,  138,  141 

Change  in  form  of  warning,  265, 
266 

Considers  the  request  of  the  peo- 
ple of  its  Northwest  corner, 
246,  247 


932 


INDEX 


Towns    called    "  Canada  Towns," 

why?  16 

Granted  by  Mass,  had  their  char- 
ter annulled,  19 

Townships  added  to  N.  H.,  17 

Tradesmen,  623 

Training  Band  drills  while  their 
fellow-citizens  fight  at  Bunker 
Hill,  208,  152 

Treachery  to  the  Indians,  9 

Trestle  on  railroad,  634 

Trespassers,  Committee  to  prose- 
cute, 84 

Turkeys,  wild,  119 

Turns  of  military  service  appraised 

154 
Turnpike,  Second  N.  H.,  422 

Union,  Articles  of,  approved,  154 
United  States  Colored  Troops,  239 
Union  Veterans'  Union,  Appendix 
Usurpation,  16 

Veteran  Reserve  Corps,  239 
Veterans,  Sons  of,  Appendix 
Volunteers,  50,000  called  for,  229 
Vote  neither  reconsidered  nor  an- 
nulled, 154 

Votes  regarding  bounties  and  aid 
to  the  families  of  soldiers,  232- 

234 

Regarding  substitutes  and  quota 
in  the  Civil  War,  233 

Wages  of  militia  men,  229,  230 
War,  Indian  and  French,  8 

Revolutionary,  and  Roll  of  sol- 
diers, 155,  170-205 

Of  1812  and  its  causes,  228,  229 

Of  1812,  1/yndeborough  soldiers 
in,  230,  231 

Mexican,  231 

Of  Rebellion,  quota  and  expendi- 
tures for,  232-242 

Warning  town  meeting,  changes  in 
style  of,  265,  266 

Out  of  town  people  of  other 
towns  likely  to  become  a  bur- 
den, 141 


Warrant  lost  by  court  causes  the 
town  very  heavy  and  unjust 
expense,  272 

Watts  Psalms  and  Hymns  per- 
mitted for  use  in  church,  158 

W.  C.  T.  U.  organized,  420 

Weare,  one  of  the  Canada  town- 
ships, 16 

White  pines  reserved  for  His  Maj- 
esty's navy,  51 

White  Plains,  Soldiers  at,  162 

Wilton  versus   Lyndeborough,  46, 

54-56,  81,  82,  102,  103,  135,  153 
Lands  adjoining  north   line    of, 

sold,  82,  83,  94 
Mentioned,  270,  271,  286,  291,  338, 

340,  369,  423,  435,  436 
History,  458,  495 
West  Village,  462 
Highlands,  521,  525,  528 
Meeting-house  frame,  fall  of,  147- 
149 

Wounded  and  killed  at  fall  of 
frame,  149 

Winter  Hill  men  with  Capt.  Spauld- 

ing,  167 

March  to  Canada  and  return  to 
Trenton  fight,  168 

Worship,  last  in  old  meeting-house 
291 

Wool  and  woolen  underwear,  468, 
469,  470 

Wolves,  118 

Wood,  "  1 2  cords  of  hard  dry  wood" 
as  a  part  of  minister's  salary, 
was  thought  too  hard  a  condi- 
tion and  defeated  his  call,  291 

Woodshed,  first  in  town,  474 

Wooden  pegs  used  instead  of  nails, 
466 

Woodchuck,  264 

W.  R.  C.,  440 

For  organization  of,  seeAppendix 

Wounded  mortally  at  Bunker  Hill, 
152 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
342 


Errata. 


Page  19,  last  paragraph.     For  Chapter  V.  read  Chapter  III. 
Page  76,  twenty-third  line.     For  Wellingford  read  Wallingford. 
Page  140,  near  the  bottom  of  page.     For  Caston's  read  Coston's. 
Page  310,  twelfth  line.     Insert  Merrill  after  Rev.  Nathaniel. 
Page   385,    after  David   Holt   insert  John   W.  Whittemore,  5 

shares. 

Page  429,  third  line.     After  Stiles's  insert  and. 
Page  725,  last  line.     For  Oct.  i,  1885,  read  Oct.  5,  1885. 
Page  726,  third  line.     For  Irwin  E.,  read  Erwin  E. 
Page  751,  fourteenth  line.     For  Maj.  Peter  and  Hannah  (Epes) 

Clark,  read  John  and  Margery  (Hay ward)  Clark. 

See  page  705. 

Page  772,  tenth  line.     For  1891  read  1893. 
Page  786.     To  the  children  of  Joseph  A.  and  Mary  L.  (Steph- 

enson)  Johnson  add  Isa  V.,  b.  Nov.  9,  1857,  m. 

Ephraim  Provo  of  Salem,  Mass. 
Page  830.     To  the  record  of  Charles  E.  Putnam  add,  m.  Sept. 

2,    1903,   Minda  A.    Buswell  of  Bedford,    N.    H. 

Children,  born  at  Wilton:  Donald  E.,  b.  May  26, 

1904  ;  James  A.,  b.  July  13,  1905. 


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